Conservatives Against Bush - This date in Bush history

[blueButGlad]

With the start of a new year, take some time to look back. Today's 'On this date in Bush history...'

"Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong" Abraham Lincoln

Vice President Dick Cheney speaks to the conservative Heritage Foundation a year ago today saying "The Foundation has been a place of sound ideas, of intellectual leadership, and first-rate scholarship ... you've earned the respect and the appreciation of all of us who are privileged to serve in public office".

Nice praise from the VP to an organization that is not always happy with the Bush administration. During Bush's 1st term they pointed out that out that "Federal spending - especially discretionary spending - has soared over the past two years, and new programs proposed by the president will make it difficult to check this growth ... Conservatives across the nation are raising concerns about the huge increases in spending ... The impact this will have on our economy, taxpayers, and future generations is of paramount concern". They added that homeland security spending "accounts for less than half of the new spending that has occurred since 9/11"

Afer Bush signed a transportation bill that included lots of pork, including more than $200 million to fund what was referred to as the "bridge to nowhere" in Alaska, the foundation circulated a paper, ‘The Bridge to Nowhere: A National Embarrassment’ and noted "fiscally responsible members of Congress should be eager to zero out its funding". The bridge, with a span larger than the Golden Gate Bridge, was intended to connect to an island with a population of only 50 people.

"the person who runs FEMA is the first voice, often times, of someone who's life has been turned upside down hears from". President Bush, speaking on this date in 2001

'ON THIS DATE IN BUSH HISTORY: THE FAREWELL TOUR!' - FINAL WEEK!

Inspired by the Jan 4th entry of the 2007 calendar www.poorGeorgesAlmanac.com - the misleads! the misdeeds!

[zbdent]

1. People forget one thing about the "bridge to nowhere" ...

the construction of the bridge was halted ... but Alaska still got the $200 M ...