Question:
What did Bush accomplish as President?
anonymous
2008-11-18 13:13:11 UTC
Any laws passed that helped America?

Or will his legacy include the lack of any laws that improved society?
27 answers:
anonymous
2008-11-18 13:16:13 UTC
God told him to be president.

Just like he's gonna tell me !!



Gosh ! thats good enough for me !
peaches
2008-11-18 21:33:26 UTC
I don't remember Bush being elected, he was appointed by some nuts in the Supreme Court!

he has the attitude that is the reason most of the world now distrust us. This president has managed to turn what few contries that did like us to shake their heads in disbelief and distain. Not only has the Bush Jr administration show total disregard for our UN allies and the world's legal system, but has totally taken what few freedoms we do have away. Torture, Spying on our mails and emails AND telephone without a warrant!! Secret prisons here and abroad. This is what we accused our arch enemy of the 50's, 60's and 70's the great evil USSR. Bush and Cheney are nothing less than war criminals themselves.
myopinion
2008-11-18 21:22:08 UTC
Well, I don't like Bush, never did, never voted for him.. BUT, I suppose if I were trying to be fair..we could say that he did hold off any further terrorist attacks on our country.



Now whether that was just luck or skill, I don't know.



I do know however, that his name will by synonymous with failed presidencies forever more... When ever anyone pulls off a real dud of an idea or does something terribly wrong.. it will be known as " pulling a BUSH"



He was a disastrous president and a clown.. he never should have soiled the chairs of the Oval office.



What we have ahead.. I don't know. We are going from a know nothing president to a no experience president.. We will have to wait and see.
Essentially_Libertarian
2008-11-18 21:19:43 UTC
So does that mean the democrats haven't passed a law in the last two years that improves society?
Another Bear lost
2008-11-18 21:23:43 UTC
Well he did these things



1) Had foreign countries loss respect for America



2)Lead us into a war with Iraq for unknown reasons



3) failed to catch anyone responsible for 9/11



4)Sent troops to N.O 2 weeks after the worst hurricane in history.



5) He did however help obama win the election by being a republican
tony
2008-11-18 21:23:47 UTC
9/11 screwed his presidency so it's hard to tell what kind of president he might have been



I think he took appropriate action then flushed everything down the drain with the Iraq war.



If he hadn't started that war probably he would have been looked on favorably.



Just my opinion.
bluenaketat
2008-11-18 21:27:24 UTC
Well you are still alive apparently with a comp and the internet. We did not get attacked after 9/11. We got tax cuts.
anonymous
2008-11-18 21:26:48 UTC
As far as accomplishments on the positive side, he did NOTHING. He lied, stole, and disrespected us all. He is thee worst President in all of our history. Bush will not be admired by historians.
anonymous
2008-11-18 21:18:56 UTC
He found out that he was WRONG on everything and the title of "The worst president in U.S. history."



When you Bush lovers say "he kept us safe" you do know that the worst attack ever on US soil happened on HIS WATCH right? And the fact that he created more enemies , does that make you feel safer now or before he got in office?
Mike
2008-11-18 21:18:54 UTC
Besides keeping your butt safe from terror attacks, and recovering the economy after 9/11, and getting two of the best supreme court justices in place we may have for the next 10 years...Oh I suppose not much. The man has more dignity in his little finger than the whole of the Democrat party.
anonymous
2008-11-18 21:18:42 UTC
Astoundingly, he did nothing except for the misbegotten senior citizen drug care program and the failed no child left behind act.
anonymous
2008-11-18 21:20:35 UTC
he managed to get the entire rest of the world to despise him and even america to some degree
anonymous
2008-11-18 21:18:32 UTC
Kepts us safe during 9-11. Took action during Hurricane Katrina. Im a democrat and even I respect that aspect of him.
Ravenwolf_mn
2008-11-18 21:35:22 UTC
Destroying America, Assassination of a U.S. Senator, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.
XAlexiaX
2008-11-18 21:18:15 UTC
Lets see, he drove us into a war with iraq, which is now pushed us into a trillion dollar deficit, we're in a recession, any serial killer can walk into a gun shop and by a gun without the slightest bit of problems...the list goes on
bereal1
2008-11-18 21:43:18 UTC
Banned Partial Birth Abortion-2. Reversed Clinton's move to strike Reagan's anti-abortion Mexico Policy. -reversed Clinton's policy of not requiring parental consent for abortions under the Medical Privacy Act.- By EO, prohibited federal funds for international family planning groups that provide abortions and related services.- Upheld the ban on abortions at military hospitals. - Made $33 million available for abstinence education programs in 2004.- Supports the Defense of Marriage Act — and a Constitutional amendment saying marriage is between one man and one woman. - Requires states to conduct criminal background checks on prospective foster and adoptive parents.- Requires districts to let students transfer out of dangerous schools.- Requires schools to have a zero-tolerance policy for classroom disruption (reintroducing discipline into classrooms). - Signed the Teacher Protection Act, which protects teachers from lawsuits related to student discipline. - Expanded the role of faith-based and community organizations in after-school programs.Signed two income tax cuts, one of which was the largest dollar-value tax cut in world history. - Turned around an inherited economy that was in recession, and deeply shocked as a result of the 9/11 attacks.-increased small business incentives to expand and to hire new people.

Killed Clinton's "ergonomic" rules that OSHA was about to implement; rules would have shut down every home business in America. - Passed tough new laws to hold corporate criminals to account as a result of corporate scandals.- Reduced taxes on dividends and capital gains.- Reduced the estate tax for family farms and ranches.- Provided $20 million to states to help people with disabilities work from home.- Created a fund to encourage technologies that help the disabled. - Increased the annual contribution limit on Education IRA's from $500 to $2,000 per child. Make permanent the $5,000 adoption tax credit and provide $1 billion over five years to increase the credit to $10,000. Signed the No Child Left Behind Act,- "Jobs for the 21st Century," a comprehensive plan to better prepare workers for jobs in the new millennium by strengthening post-secondary education and job training, and by improving high school education,- Requires school-by-school accountability report cards,- Established a $2.4 billion fund to help states implement teacher accountability systems,- Increased funding for the Troops-to-Teachers program, which recruits former military personnel to become teachers,-Established a $10 million grant program to promote private conservation initiatives,-Changed parts of the Forestry Management Act to allow necessary cleanup of the national forests in order to reduce fire danger,-Killed Clinton's CO2 rules that were choking off all of the electricity surplus to California,- Provided matching grants for state programs that help private landowners protect rare species,-Disarmed Libya of its chemical, nuclear and biological WMD's without bribes or bloodshed,-Continues to execute the War On Terror,-Double the research budget of the National Institutes of Health,-Under President Bush's leadership, America has made an unprecedented commitment to homeland security--- Kept US safe from further attacks(6 internal that we know of)- Grant a complete tax exemption for prepaid or college tuition savings plans,-Reduced H1B visas from a high of 195,000 per year to 66,000 per year,--etc.
anonymous
2008-11-18 21:19:59 UTC
Give me a couple of weeks and I might think of something.
anonymous
2008-11-18 21:20:03 UTC
Tax cut for everyone and good supreme court justices.
anonymous
2008-11-18 21:19:39 UTC
He fought terriorism

No Child Left Behind Policy

Helped USA stay alive

It's too many to name
Jess
2008-11-18 21:30:55 UTC
he wasnt al gore, or john kerri
anonymous
2008-11-18 21:18:29 UTC
but bush broke the law before they changed fisa. and he will get away with it.
JMB
2008-11-18 21:18:03 UTC
Destroyed the economy



Destroyed the military



Destroyed our international respect.
anonymous
2008-11-18 21:17:45 UTC
He ran up the largest debt in U.S history, started an illegal war and lost focus on the war on terror by diverting U.S troops from finding Bin Laden to Iraq for his illegal war.
Nestor C
2008-11-18 21:18:03 UTC
9/11 will be somewhere in there, no idea what he did for even that, though.
Hermoine
2008-11-18 21:16:59 UTC
Bush and Obama passed FISA.
HUBBY(MARC ANTHONY DELERME)
2008-11-18 21:23:01 UTC
I GUESS NOTHING
anonymous
2008-11-18 21:18:10 UTC
He kept you alive.


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