How to explain Bush vs. Democrats

ILLUSTRATED: Point for point, how to explain why they're wrong, and how we are right.

An excellent article by Richard Reeves offers a succinct critique of the Bush Administration. But not to simply whine about what’s wrong, here is how to explain in PLAIN ENGLISH how Democrats will improve things.

· He has taken the country into an unwinnable war and alienated friend and foe alike in the process;
· He is bankrupting the country with a combination of aggressive military spending and reduced taxation of the rich;
· He has deliberately and dangerously attacked separation of church and state;
· He has repeatedly "misled," to use a kind word, the American people on affairs domestic and foreign;
· He has proved to be incompetent in affairs domestic (New Orleans) and foreign
(Iraq and the battle against al-Qaida);
· He has sacrificed American employment (including the toleration of pension and benefit elimination) to increase overall productivity;
· He is ignorantly hostile to science and technological progress;
· He has tolerated or ignored one of the republic's oldest problems, corporate cheating in supplying the military in wartime.

How we respond:
-Democrats will reach out to the Sunnis politically, and win their trust by drawing down our troop levels. We will being a massive diplomatic outreach effort to rebuild the international system that Truman built and Bush destroyed.

-We will bring back the tax rate on the wealthy to that during the Clinton Economy. We will have rules that any spending, must be paid for up front, not on credit.

-Churches are actually strengthened when the government is not paying them. Democrats will work with faith based groups for mutual goals, but we will not outsource basic government functions to churches.

-Democrats will restore integrity and trust. First by holding government officials accountable.
Government is for the public interest. Competent managers will be in place to urn the government. Democrats will provide you the services you deserve, and not waste your money.

-The most pro-business thing the government could do is to have a big healthcare risk pool for businesses to buy into. Contracts with workers should be honored just like any other contract.

-Science will be supported, from your kid’s classroom, to federal funding for lab research.

-War profiteering must stop. It is your tax money for troops being stolen by companies.