2009: The Obama administration announced today that it will seek to reverse a Bush-era mercury pollution control plan that allowed for mercury hot-spots around certain polluting power plants. That plan had been favored by industry but earned the protests of those concerned with mercury’s impact on human health. Power plants are the largest source of mercury pollution. Mercury is especially damaging to very young children. Read Full Story
President Obama signs into law a bill reauthorizing the Children’s Health Insurance Program; a bill fought by the Bush administration. Said President Obama, “Now, this is not who we are. We’re not a nation that leaves struggling families to fend for themselves, especially when they’ve done everything right … In a decent society, there are certain obligations that are not subject to tradeoffs or negotiations, and health care for our children is one of those oblig... Read Full Story
President Obama signs the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act into law. Prior to this, employers could get away with illegal pay discrimination by simply keeping the discrimination secret from the employee for a short period of time, after which the employee could take no action. Incredibly, the Bush administration thought this was just fine. Read Full Story
President Obama tells the EPA to reconsider a Bush decision that stopped California and other states from imposing their own stricter auto emission limits (which would reduce dependence on foreign oil, aid in the fight against global warming, and produce cleaner air). Prior to the unprecedented action of the oil-soaked Bush administration, no such request by the states had ever been denied. Read Full Story
The Obama administration today overturned the Bush administration’s “global gag rule” that had prevented organizations that include abortion advice as part of their family planning services from receiving US funds. Now such organizations will be free to expain all legal options to their clients. Organizations aiding women that had been banned from funds because of the rule will once again be allowed to recieve funding and thus better help the women that they serve. Read Full Story
President Obama issues an Executive Order ending US torture by requiring that all interrogations of detainees in armed conflict follow the Army Field Manual interrogation guidelines, something the Bush administration refused to do. The order brings the United States one step closer to restoring its image as a moral nation. Read Full Story
President Obama issues an Executive Order calling for the closure of the Guantanamo detention center within one year. The order brings the United States one step closer to restoring its image as a moral nation once again. Read Full Story
With the election of President Obama and the retirement of President Bush, now is a good time to close-up shop. I leave you with a special deal on the “Poor George’s Almanac” book, if you are interested…
A ‘Good Bye Bush’ Good Buy (A Thank-you to My Loyal Site Visitors)
This is it! I’m closing up shop. ‘Bush History’ is history! I urge you, however, not to forget the details of this sorry administration. To THANK-YOU for your support I am ... Read Full Story
Army Lt. General: Less Focus on Terror After Bush Took Over
2002: The Washington Post today publishes an observation by Army Lt. Gen. Donald Kerrick, who has worked on the Joint Staff and the Defense Intelligence Agency. Under President Clinton, he was on the National Security Council, where he remained for the first four months of the Bush administration. Kendrick compared the enthusiasm of Clinton’s advisors in fighting terrorism with President Bush’s advisers before 9/11. Lt. G... Read Full Story
Bush’s Former Treasury Secretary Slams Bush on WMDs
2006: Bush’s former Treasury Secretary, Paul O’Neill, says in today’s edition of Time Magazine: “In the 23 months I was there [in the Bush White House], I never saw anything that I would characterize as evidence of weapons of mass destruction … I never saw anything in the intelligence that I would characterize as real evidence.”
It Takes a Thousand Steps to Screw up a Nation — Learn How Bush D... Read Full Story
