I nominate the following notes for our little choir to sing: (in no particular order):
- Bush's record on the environment
- Kenneth Lay, Enron, and the Bush connection
- Karl Rove, the most powerful man in America who is accountable to no one.
- George Bush, Commander in Chief, went AWOL.
- George Bush's grandfather's wealth resulted from his business with the Nazis.
- Harken and the SEC investigation.
- The criminal records of W, his brothers, his wife, his brothers' wives, his children, his brothers' children, his grandfather, his grandfather's children.
- Jeb Bush, Katherine Harris, and the Florida voting scandal of 2000.
- Bush/Rove's mistreatment and lies about John McCain in the primaries.
- Campaign fund raising
- Bin Laden and James Bath, Robert Jordan and James Baker
- The stifling of the investigation of the September 11 terrorist attacks.
- Republicans spent $40,000,000 investigating Clinton; $3,000,000 on 911.
- Republican choices for federal judges.
- Fuel efficiency standards
- Social (un)Security
- Tax cuts for the wealthy
- Reduction of government services (and tax cuts)
- Increasing the military budget more than the Pentagon requested (and tax cuts)
- From budget surplus to record deficits (and tax cuts)
- The budget crises in almost all the states (and the national debt)
- Attack on Veterans' benefits
- Iraq / WMD / UN Inspections / Why we (supposedly) invaded / Why we (really) invaded / WMD
- Post-Taliban Afghanistan and the opium trade
- The Skull and Bones Society (and the opium trade)
- The University of Michigan's admission policy and the Presidential briefs claiming reverse discrimination
- Republican hypocrisy over abortion (and Bush's obligations to the Christian right)
- Republicans' stance on homosexuality and AIDS
- John Poindexter, 5 felony convictions, Total Information Awareness
- Larry Lindsey, Paul O'Neil, Harvey Pitt
- Trent Lott, Rick Santorum
- Arsenic levels
- Secrecy vs. Freedom of Information
- Cheney and the Energy Task Force (and the Congressional Accounting Office having to sue to (not) review documents)
- Burden of debt left to future generations
- Halliburton, Carlyle, Adnan Khashoggi, Richard Perle, Thomas White, Project for a New American Century, Rumsfeld and Hussein, Rumsfeld and Swiss-based ABB (the company that sold N. Korea its reactors)
- Patriot Act, TIPS, Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003