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Bush State of the Union Dictionary  (By Redoedo (39) on 01/26/2004)

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Energy bill: A gigantic, $50 billion payback to the Administration’s most loyal campaign contributors. (2)  5.00 (2)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
Corporate accountability: Bush fundraising strategy to milk every dime out of corporations who benefit from tax cuts and regulatory rollbacks. (1)  5.00 (1)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
Imminent threat: A nation or regime which does not pose a serious danger to the United States but has resources that America desires. (5)  4.29 (7)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
Economic stimulus: Tax cuts for the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans. (6)  4.25 (8)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
Bipartisan Support: All Republicans, plus Zell Miller (D-GA). (3)  4.00 (5)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
American Justice: What happens to those who disagree with the Administration. (9)  3.90 (10)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
Space exploration: A necessary investment of billions of dollars (that doesn't go to education, that doesn't go to health care, and that doesn't go to our troops). (5)  3.57 (7)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
Healthy forests: Saving the trees in our national forests by cutting them down and giving them to timber companies for safekeeping. (4)  3.50 (6)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
Weapons of Mass Destruction: Things that Saddam Hussein wanted but didn’t have. (4)  3.50 (6)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
Education reform: To set expensive new standards, but fail to offer sufficient funds to meet said standards. See ‘Accountability’. (2)  3.50 (2)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
Economic success: Economy loses 2.5 million jobs: could have lost 3 million. (7)  3.44 (9)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
Bush Doctrine: “Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists” – unless you are the Saudi government, in which case you can be with both. (10)  3.18 (11)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
Coalition of the willing: 160,000 U.S. troops, "symbolic" support from the South Pacific archipelago of Palau, and 2,000 Moroccan monkeys to defuse mines. (4)  3.14 (7)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
Economic recovery: Profits are up and who cares about jobs anyway. (6)  3.14 (7)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
Intelligence: Data that is collected and analyzed by the government, then publicized with varying degrees of accuracy. (5)  3.14 (7)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
United Nations: A multilateral organization that is only relevant when it agrees with American policy. (5)  3.00 (7)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
Affordable Healthcare: (1) Healthcare for the healthy and wealthy. (2) More taxpayer money for private health insurers. (3)  3.00 (4)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
Reconstruction: (1) Nation-building. (2) The new mission of the U.S. Military. (2)  3.00 (2)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
Clear Skies Initiative: A gift to polluters that reverses 30 years of progress on clean air and ignores global warming and the growing asthma epidemic. (3)  2.80 (5)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
War on Terror: Tough-sounding phrase that fails to specify a strategy for actually protecting Americans. (3)  2.25 (4)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
Energy independence: (1) A decision made all by ourselves to rely on other countries for our power needs. (2) A reason to drill in Alaska. (3) A jobs program for Halliburton. (1)  2.00 (1)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
No Child Left Behind: Two-year old legislation that guarantees the possibility that your child could be left behind. (1)  2.00 (1)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
Accountability: The stick that dangles the carrot of federal funding. (1)  1.00 (1)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
Evidence: What is not needed to justify a war. (0)  0.00 (0)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
Incentives to work: Welfare recipients need a few dollars less, otherwise they won’t show up for work; CEOs need a few million more, otherwise they won’t show up for work. (0)  0.00 (0)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
Medicare advantage: A renamed Medicare program providing HMOs the advantage of billions of dollars in excess payments. (0)  0.00 (0)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
Medicare prescription drug legislation: Legislation that provides seniors with benefit gaps, increased out of pocket spending, restricted access to drugs, and enables insurers to establish which drugs are covered and how much they cost. (0)  0.00 (0)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
Prescription Drug Discount Card: Something that gives a discount to the pharmaceutical industry and gives seniors another card for their wallet (to replace their shredded AARP cards). (0)  0.00 (0)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
School choice: The occasional option that some parents have to make sure that their child is not left behind. (0)  0.00 (0)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
Temporary Worker Program: In lieu of real immigration reform, an election-year initiative that provides businesses with a temporary and cheap workforce without ensuring protections for immigrant workers. (0)  0.00 (0)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
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