I’ve been asked before why I hate President Bush, and I never can back it up because I don’t remember specific events that have triggered my anger. Well, now I’m writing down a couple before they get buried in my memory:
White House says phone wiretaps back on “for now”
The Bush administration said on Saturday U.S. telecommunications companies have agreed to cooperate “for the time being” with spy agencies’ wiretaps, despite an ongoing battle between the White House and Congress over new terrorism surveillance legislation.
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President George W. Bush has said he would not compromise with the Democratic-led Congress on his demand that phone companies be shielded from lawsuits for taking part in his warrantless domestic spying program.
While the border wall will go through her backyard and effectively destroy her home, it will stop at the edge of the River Bend Resort and golf course, a popular Winter Texan retreat two miles down the road. The wall starts up again on the other side of the resort.
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In the small town of Granjeno, population 313, Garza points to a field across the street where a segment of the proposed 18-foot high border wall would abruptly end after passing through his brick home and a small, yellow house he gave his son. “All that land over there is owned by the Hunts,” he says, waving a hand toward the horizon. “The wall doesn’t go there.”In this area everyone knows the Hunts. Dallas billionaire Ray L. Hunt and his relatives are one of the wealthiest oil and gas dynasties in the world. Hunt, a close friend of President George W. Bush…
I can think of many, many reasons to hate Bush. The fact that he has made people willing to give up freedoms and civil liberties in exchange for so-called safety is just one of many.
Then there’s everything else. I’ve never had anyone ask me why I hate Bush, but I’m pretty sure my answer would be something along the lines of “How could you not?” or “Can you read?”