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Originally posted by The Truth Hurts
everyone seems to blame every last fucking thing on the current bush.
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George W Bush accomplished the following in his first few months in office:
* Cut funding for research into renewable energy sources by 50 percent
* Delayed rules that would reduce "acceptable" levels of arsenic in drinking water
* Cut funding for research into cleaner, more efficient cars and trucks by 28 percent
* Allowed Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton to request suggestions for opening up national monuments for foresting, coal mining and oil and gas drilling
* Broke campaign promise to invest $100 million per year in rain forest conservation
* Nullified a proposal to increase public access to information about the potential ramifications of chemical plant accidents
* Pulled out of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol agreement on global warming, ultimately signed by 178 other countries
* Cut half a billion dollars from the Environmental Protection Agency's budget
* Abandoned campaign pledge to regulate carbon dioxide emissions, a major contributor to global warming
* Nominated former mining company executive Dan Lauriski as Assistant Secretary of Labor for Mine Safety and Health
* Appointed Lynn Scarlett, a global warming skeptic and an opponent of stricter standards on air pollution, as Undersecretary of the Interior
* Approved Interior Secretary Gale Norton's controversial plan to auction off areas close to Florida's eastern shore for oil and gas development
* Announced plans to allow oil drilling in Montana's Lewis and Clark National Forest
* Tried to reverse regulation protecting sixty million acres of national forest from logging and road building
* Made Monsanto executive Linda Fisher deputy administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency
* Canceled the 2004 deadline for auto makers to develop prototype high-mileage cars
* Appointed oil and gas lobbyist J. Steven Giles as Deputy Secretary of the Interior
* Named Bennet Raley, who has called for the repeal of the Endangered Species Act, as Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Water and Science
Of course, a lot of the above is supported by many Democrats