Monday, October 18, 2004

WHAT HAVE YOU DONE FOR ME LATELY

In less than four years, President Bush has:
- Averted a long deep recession with sound economic policy.
- Passed the most comprehensive education bill ever.
- Brought corporate crooks to justice.
- Rallied the nation after 9-11.
- Freed 25 million people in Afghanistan.
- Brought democracy to Afghanistan.
- Freed 25 million people in Iraq.
- Turned Iraq over to an interim government.
- Put Saddam Hussein in the dock.
- Is aggressively hunting down terrorist.

In 20 years in the senate, John Kerry has:
- Voted for abortion to include a federally funded partial birth abortion for a minor without parental notification.
- Voted against funding major weapons systems to include:
MX Missile, B-1 Bomber, Anti-satellite system, Star Wars [Strategic Defense Initiative], AH-64 Helicopters, Patriot Air Defense Missile, Aegis Air-Defense Cruiser, Battleship Reactivation, AV-8B Vertical Takeoff and Landing Aircraft, F-15 Fighter Aircraft, F-14A Fighter Aircraft, F-14D Fighter Aircraft, Phoenix Air-to-Air Missile, Sparrow Air-to-Air Missile
- Voted against the 1991 Gulf War.
- Proposed cutting the intelligence budget by $6 billion.
- Voted 98 times for tax increases totaling more than $2.3 trillion.
- Voted at least 126 times against tax cuts totaling more than $5.3 trillion.
- Voted 73 times to reduce the size of a tax cut.
- Voted 67 times for smaller tax cuts (Democrat alternatives).
- Voted 11 times against repealing tax hikes.
- Voted with Ted Kennedy 98%. (The other 2% allowed him edge Kennedy out as the most liberal member of the senate.)
- Voted for the $87 billion, before voting against it.

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