George W. Bush has reversed a promise he has made during last year's presidential campaign

George W. Bush has reversed promises he has made during last year's presidential campaign

by Anatoly O. 03.18.2001

During the campaign, George W. Bush promised:

to cut tax for the superrich and leave no room for needed spending on education, health, and other areas;
to radically privatize Social Security and Medicare;
to allow utilities, big oil and others to ignore environmental laws that protect children, elderly and poor from industrial pollution;
to continue to side with the NRA;
to review 'all federal lands' for oil and gas exploration, including national parks, monuments, wilderness areas, other wild public lands;
to oppose women reproductive rights;
to push a private school voucher plan;
to serve the interests of the outrageously wealthy;
to appoint anti-woman, anti-choice, anti-gay, anti-affirmative action nominees in his Cabinet.

Less than two months into his tenure, President Bush followed his father's lead and shattered campaign promises. Bush talked down the economy and destroyed people's personal savings. The nation's biggest moneybags, including investors George Soros and Warren Buffett, William H. Gates who is father of America's richest man, Teresa Heinz and her husband oppose President Bush's plan to cut taxes. Among 14 Cabinet Secretaries there are only 5 white men. Bush has selected black lawyer Ralph Boyd to head the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division. The private school voucher plan is dead.

So why has the press given Bush so little heat for saying one thing and doing another? They're happy to ignore his promise breaking, as long as proposals were ill-considered and outlandish in the first place.