What * outrage has made you the maddest?

[MoonRiver]

Poll question: What * outrage has made you the maddest?

There have been so many it's hard to choose. But reviewing the list and our reactions to each item is important. We must NEVER forget what has gone down the last 3+ hideous years.

2 edits: It's late and I need to be :boring:!

[coloradodem2005]

1. What doesn't make me mad?

n/t

[Fovea]

2. I had to vote other

Iraq is going to set the world against us.
But sacrificing California to Enron will be what leads directly
to civil war, v.2.0

[amber dog democrat]

3. afrter stealing the election

everything following is just another nail in the coffin.

[Mel]

8. I'm with you amber dog democrat

stealing the election if not for the 2000 coup it's very possible we would not of suffered the other horrors such as 9-11 and Iraq War and on and on I could go listing but no need you guys know. :cry:

[amber dog democrat]

13. I have a very long memory and have permenantly fixed

accountability to the Chimp for everything since. Its a very dark beginning for the 21st Cent. But we will get past this dangerous fool and his greedy junta.
They've about out-clevered themselves. I can honestly say I despise the Chimp and all he stands for.
I am nor religeous any more - but the Chimp claims to be. He'd better hope for his sake there is NOT an afterlife. Would NOT want to be him.

[procopia]

4. I had to vote for Iraqi invasion

because that involved the loss of so many lives, but the stolen election is close behind because that was the death of our democracy.

[seventhson]

5. Hitler support and profits they made from Auschwitz

www.tarpley.net

[stevedeshazer]

19. Yes, and

Grandpoppy Bush's financial support of IBM's German subsidiary, which was used to catalog and round up Jews, homosexuals, and Gypsies.

http://www.ibmandtheholocaust.com/

[rwenos]

6. Unwillingness to Be Seen with Coffins

By far, the thing that has inflamed me the most is this chickensh*t excuse for a National Guard weenie refusing to appear with America's war dead -- no funerals, no coffins, no widows, no cognizance that Americans are dying for his cronies' oil.

I HATE George Walker Bush for this. It is cowardly and childish.

He'll be out of office one day, but I'll hate him for this my whole life.

I watch the faces of dead Americans looking back at me at end of Lehrer's news report every night. How can this man sleep at night? How can he look himself in the mirror? How can he STAND himself?

Just my opinion. It isn't one of your survey choices.

[WMliberal]

7. tonight, my sierra club roots are showing

I'm going with environmental wreckage. it's the only aspect of his administration that was intended to do thought out, long term changes... and predictably, theyw ere to make it easier to rape the earth and damn near impossible to fix by the next guy. It's like he knew he was gonna be a one-termer!

[iwantmycountryback]

9. I voted for the Iraq invasion

Mostly because of the so many innocent lives that have been lost, both American and Iraqi. But those other options also angered me a great deal. The only thing Bush could do that I would support would be resigning.

[WMliberal]

15. welcome to DU!

:party: :party: :party: :party:

[yardwork]

10. Iraq invasion is the worst thing any American president has ever done

We've launched sneaky wars before, but nothing on this scale.

However, any one of the things shrub has done would be enough to make me furious with him. He's the worst American president ever. Hands down.

[newscaster]

12. While the invasion of Iraq was not called for in any way....

I think I am pissed mostly by his posturing trying to make us think he is some sort of war hero.
Calling himself a "war president", bragging that, "I know what I am doing to win this war" and finally, that disgusting outrage when he landed aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln and had the ship turned around so it would look that they were way out to sea instead of a mile off the beach.

The man is a fake going and coming.

[AP]

11. Iraq was bad. But people should see it in the bigger context of what Bush

has done.

Sometimes I get the feeling that a lot of Dems wouldn't appreciate what Bush is doing to America if there were no Iraq war.

[JohnKleeb]

14. I think youre right about this AP

Yes, Iraq was terrible but the war at home has been just as bad, people losing their jobs, people losing their pension funds, etc, if my great uncle hadnt died of cancer 8 years ago, he would have lost his pension fund from Bethelem Steel.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

16. Where do you even start?

I think what makes me craziest is the fact that he pulls all this crap and gets away with it.

[henslee]

17. learning that * gives his dog live fish to play with really bothers me.

It just shows a lack of reverence for the dignity of living things.

[Protected]

18. Iraq

I can't believe he lied to us like that. Of course I have never liked the guy, but I never thought that the President of the United States could be so corrupt that he'd rally us into a war on lies.

[nborders]

20. Rising Budget Deficit!!!

My 11 month old gets to pay this one off!!!!

F**ker, doesn't care about the children!

~n

[fortyfeetunder]

21. equally mad at all of them

it's just all crapola....

[BayouBengal07]

22. Iraq for me.

Blowing off a second UN resolution; badmouthing our allies; sending 900+ troops to die for what has now become a random war of liberation; sketchy, cooked intel (re the Office of Special Plans); and perhaps worst of all (IMO) opening a Pandora's Box in the "Preemeptive Strike" doctrine that could write a blank check for aggression in India/Pakistan, North Korea/United States, Israel/Iran, and so on. While it hasn't reared its ugly head yet, there could be no accountability for the next big war. Just claim a preemptive strike and invade.

[JI7]

23. ripping off the workers and giving the money to the rich

iraq, afghanistan, environmental policy, taxes, etc. they all have to do with this .

[LSK]

24. how about the freepers defending everything with lies

That really pisses me off. Freepers spin everything with lies. grrrrrr

[samplegirl]

25. Logging in the National Forests

Taxpayers picking up the bill

[Sugarbleus]

26. Domestic issues are the worst for me. Iraq was insane but

while he has us looking at that, he goes hacking and whacking at our domestic policies one right after the other.

He's very clever at "distracting" people with one thing while he bulldozes other valuable things...like the constitution, civil rights, NCLB, medicare, minimum wage, healthcare, middle class taxes--or robbing the many to pay the few......too many social atrocities to mention... They are the things that enrage me the most.

[Ell09]

27. Selection 2000

It's partly the media's fault, but it still ticks me off to this day. What's worse is Bush has been pushing a far right wing agenda like he has a MANDATE. The guy lost the poplular vote, and the media NEVER brings it up when he nominates Republican after Republican for any political or judicial job opening. I thought it would finally come up with the Porter Goss nomination, but the media (and some spineless Dems) have let him get away with it.

[Guaranteed]

28. When they implied that it was unpatriotic to not support the war,

that's when the anger truly started.

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

29. Veterans

From the unconsciounable smears of John McCain in 2000 and Max Cleland in 2002, to the cuts in Veterans Administration health benefits and reductions in hazardous duty pay, this President deserves a dishonorable discharge.

[Love Bug]

30. Unfortunately, DU polls are only so long...

My anger at the shrub has been pretty much a daily occurance over the frequent atrocities coming from the WH! I picked the Iraq Invasion because it truly represents the "bully-in-chief" in his "finest hour." :puke:

[LiberalCat]

31. I voted Selection 2000.

It changed the U.S. into a banana republic. They stole our country.

With that happening, I saw all the other things coming (maybe not 9/11, but I did expect ineptitude), I am, of course, very angry about the Iraq invasion and its consequences, but I knew, before the selection, that, if *bush was elected, he would start a fake war.

All the other outrages would not have happened without Selection 2000.

[blindpig]

32. environment

Though the list of his "accomplishments" is enough to make any psychopath proud, bu$h's concerted assault upon this planet will leave scars not to be healed in the course of this civilization, if ever. Extinction is forever, and bu$h don't give a fuck.

[Bosso 63]

33. I picked other.

Everything listed has made me mad, but the one thing that makes me madder than anything else, was the way they spun the death of the Wellstones, a fact that even I find rather surprising. But,I guess its because I felt such a profound personal sense of loss, and when I saw how the administration and other republicans began to spin the memorial service and deny the existence of the genuine grief that many felt here in Minnesota. . . . It's just something that I can't forgive. Everything else I see as an extension of their greed and ignorance, but with the Wellstones, it was truly hateful, and I am NOT over it.

[Cheswick2.0]

34. Selection 2000........ everything else is just epilogue

think about it. If we can't even elect our president America is over.

[Mad_Dem_X]

35. I picked 9/11, but Selection 2000 is a close second...

I don't think anyone in this adminstration has any sort of conscience. No compassion, that scares me.

Cool picture of Dean on the subway, Cheswick. :)

[Cheswick2.0]

38. I think Bush Inc. are evil

old fashioned word, but for me it fits them well.

I love my pic of Dean, imagine getting on the subway to get to work and there's Howard? What a guy..... he's frugal you know? Gotta love a guy who refuses to get rid of his JC Penney suit.

[Zynx]

36. I can't stand his fiscal bullshit(tax cuts, deficits, out of control waste

When he gets up there with that pig-in-shit grin and says "I have reduced taxes for all Americans and the American economy is growing again." I nearly lose it.

First, the fiscal deterioration from 2000 to 2004 is roughly 7% of GDP from $240 billion in surplus to about $450 billion in deficit. Even the "socialist" New Deal was only about a fiscal deterioration of 3% of GDP from 1932 to 1936. In other words, even in terms of GDP, Bush has caused a larger swing into deficits than FDR had at the height of the New Deal. Of course this is going to cause growth, but it is shocking how minimal this growth is right now as it is below the intrinsic growth rate and well below the average growth rate in a post-recessionary period. In addition, this very notion that because the economy is "growing" that is some kind of great accomplishment drives me insane. Even Jimmy Carter's economy had "growth" and Jimmy Carter at least created jobs. Do you want a cookie just because we haven't had a three year long recession Mr. Bush? With the size deficits he's running we should be having 6-7% growth quarter after quarter, but we're running at a rate that might not even be half of that amount. The fact of the matter is that his economic policies have been remarkable failures.

Second, he has not cut taxes for all Americans. That is patent bullshit. Half of Americans pay no Federal Income Tax at all and instead pay payroll taxes. Bush hasn't cut those so hence no tax cut for HALF the country. In addition 70% pay more in payroll taxes than they do in the Federal Income Tax meaning that they have gotten minimal tax cuts that are far less than this "average" tax cut of "$2,000+" Bush keeps talking about. In fact, less than 10% of Americans got anything close to that "average" tax cut and instead got more like $1,000 and a shitty economy and investment environment that have more than wiped out the benefits of a minimal tax cut. Bush's tax cuts have only benefitted a select group of Americans at the top and that's just a fact. The way Bush says it, he tries to sound nearly socialist saying everyone has this nice big tax cut when it couldn't be further from the truth.

[WI_DEM]

37. how about all the above, but

I selected the Iraqi invasion.

[DemWitch]

39. Complete ineptitude about 9-11

after that, the House and Senate, along with a majority of the people gave him a blank check and a pass on any mistakes made, until, alas, we are where we are now.

[arwalden]

40. It's A Cop-Out... But I Chose "All The Above" (Other)....

Each of them makes me mad in a different way... it's difficult to choose which one makes me the most angry.

[Nocturnes]

41. All of the above...and

special mention to Patriot I and Patriot II

Those were really the ones that stripped civil rights

[AntiCoup2K4]

42. I've been pissed since the Pukes picked him over McCain....

kinda similar to what.... ah never mind.

Anyway, even then, I knew the Bush Criminal Empire machine would stop at nothing. Stealing elections, arranging terrorist attacks, invading countries for profit.... all a means to an end for these fucking bastards.

[LiberalPersona]

43. Selection 2000

Without which, the other outrages wouldn't have even happened.

[Liberal_Andy]

44. What do Iraq and al Qaida have in common?

The letter Q!

[Buck Rabbit]

45. Painting a big bullseye on America's back <n/t>

[Bread and Circus]

46. What about corrupting the Constitution w/ SS Ashcroft ??

[Mick Knox]

47. selection nt.. which led to war

[Piperay]

48. Selection itself...

none of the other horrible stuff was possible but for the evil of the Selection and I will NEVER 'get over it'. :mad: