The Bush Betrayal
September 10, 2004
by Chuck Baldwin September 10, 2004
In a recent article,
former Georgia Republican Congressman, Bob Barr, wrote, "Has America been
betrayed by President George W. Bush? In his most recent book, The Bush
Betrayal, James Bovard poses and then answers this question with a
resounding 'yes.'"
In his column, Barr also correctly writes,
"[W]hich recent president's term in office was characterized by support
for the so- called assault weapon ban, a huge increase in deficit
spending, bigger budgets for virtually every domestic program, including
Americorps and the National Endowment for the Arts, and signing into law a
massive increase in federal government regulation of political speech,
whose administration would you suspect they were describing? That of
Democrat Bill Clinton? Nope. [We're] talking about the first term of
Republican President George W. Bush."
Mr. Barr is absolutely right!
When it comes to Bush's first term in office, never has so much been
overlooked by so many!
Millions of Christians and conservatives
continue to labor under the obviously erroneous belief that G.W. Bush is a
conservative, that there is some huge difference between his policies and
those of his Democratic rival, John Kerry. However, the facts do not bear
this out.
As Bob Barr also wrote in his column, "The fact is, the
records of these two presidents, Democrat Bill Clinton and Republican
George W. Bush, are much more alike than either man would likely feel
comfortable admitting." Again, Mr. Barr is 100% accurate.
On most
matters of substance, there is hardly any difference in the policies of
President G.W. Bush and Bill Clinton or John
Kerry.
Consider:
*Both Bush and Kerry support "civil unions"
for homosexuals.
*Both Bush and Kerry support extending the Clinton
Gun Ban.
*Both Bush and Kerry support expanding the size and scope
of the federal government. Bush has actually outspent every Democratic
president since Lyndon Johnson.
*Both Bush and Kerry support NAFTA,
GATT, the WTO, and the FTAA.
*Neither Bush nor Kerry has any
intentions of making abortion- on-demand illegal.
And while we are
on the subject of abortion, President G.W. Bush signed legislation in 2002
that increased funding for International Family Planning to the tune of
$480.5 million making this Republican-led administration the biggest
supporter of international baby butchery in U.S. history. That is not to
mention the millions of dollars that Bush has approved for America's
largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood.
Recently, many
"pro-lifers" heaped voluminous praise upon Mr. Bush when he decided to
withhold a miniscule (by comparison) $34 million in federal funds from
UNFPA (a UN abortion agency in China). What these ignorant (or deluded)
"pro-lifers" failed to notice was that Bush redirected that $34 million to
USAID Child Survival Health Program Fund. This fund includes money for
"forecasting, purchasing, and supplying contraceptive commodities and
other materials necessary for reproductive health programs."
In
other words, all President Bush did was play the old shell game by taking
$34 million from one pro-abortion agency and giving it to another
pro-abortion agency. As American Life League President Judy Brown said,
"These 'contraceptive commodities' are nothing but abortion-inducing
chemicals that kill the very children that the fund claims to
help."
*Both Bush and Kerry supported the removal of Alabama Chief
Justice Roy Moore for upholding his oath of office to acknowledge God by
resisting an unlawful order by federal judge Myron Thompson to remove a
monument of the Ten Commandments from the Alabama Judicial Building in
Montgomery.
*Both Bush and Kerry are strong supporters of the
United Nations.
In fact, when President G.W. Bush addressed the UN
last year, he said the reason he ordered U.S. troops to invade Iraq was
for the purpose of supporting "the peace and credibility of the United
Nations."
*Both Bush and Kerry support granting illegal aliens
amnesty.
*Both Bush and Kerry support a "one China"
policy.
*Both Bush and Kerry support "outsourcing" American jobs
overseas.
*Both Bush and Kerry support the creation of a federal
police state with the creation and expansion of the Patriot Acts and the
Department of Homeland Security.
The list could go on almost
without end.
James Bovard and Bob Barr are correct: America has
been betrayed by President George W. Bush! Mr. Bush has proved himself
unfaithful to virtually every precept of conservative, constitutional
principles. As such, a John Kerry presidency would be no worse. In fact,
it might even be better as conservatives would suddenly have their
blinders removed and might actually start acting like conservatives
again.
Of course, the best alternative would be to elect a true
constitutional conservative as President. And the only such candidate for
this year's election who meets that criteria is Michael Peroutka of the
Constitution Party. It is for the above reasons and more that I was happy
to accept Michael's invitation to be his Vice Presidential running
mate.
If you choose to vote for G.W. Bush, go ahead, but please
don't delude yourself into thinking that by doing so you are voting for
something dramatically different from that of the Democratic candidate,
because you aren't. You are merely voting to continue the failed and
fallacious policies of the liberal establishment which controls both major
parties.
© Chuck Baldwin
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