Final month for “Bush Success” DVD contest.

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Last August, almost tongue-in-cheek, I issued a challange to any Right-winger that could name JUST ONE positive policy success to come out of the Bush Administration in its six years, and win a free DVD paid for by me (out-of-pocket as I have no advertisers).

I posted my contest idea on “Democratic Underground“, which quickly revealed that no one else could think of a sucessful Bush policy, either.

The GOP’s facade of morality and respectability has begun to crumble in recent weeks. Between George Allen’s (R-Va) string of racist feux-pas, starting with telling an East-Indian kid, “Welcome to America” after calling him an obscure name (”Macaca”), to the most recent revelation of him stuffing a severed deer-head in the mailbox of a black family back when he was in college (a story Allen denies but others confirm), it’s been a bad week for Senator George Allen.

And now the revelation that Mark Foley (R-FL) was sending sexually explicit “IM’s” (Instant Messages) to 16-year old male pages. Not only did Foley head up the Republicans “Missing & Exploited Children Caucuss”, but other Republican Leaders (Majority Leader Boehner and Speaker Hastert) knew but didn’t say anything, hoping it would blow over until after the election (that’s right, they’d rather let a pedophile continue to proposition young boys rather than jeopardize his House seat).

Add to all this bad news (for the GOP), Bob Woodward’s latest book, “State of Denial” exposes everything this Administration didn’t do before 9/11 as well as refused to do before and after the invasion of Iraq, and the picture of a GOP more corrupt, devient and incompetent than the worst GOP fantasy dipiction of what the Democratic Party is like, and you SHOULD have the makings of a Democratic landslide this November. Yet, Allen (mentioned above) still leads Democrat Webb in Virginia 49% to 43%! How bad must the GOP get before people think worse of them than Democrats??? Talk about a sucessful GOP smear campaign! The DNC is in SERIOUS need of a PR makeover.

Anyway, as mentioned below, I created a new video highlighting the promises George Bush made in his 2000 RNC acceptance speech. How *anyone* could listen to that speech today and still not find these people completely bereft of any integrity or trustworthyness is beyond me.

So I’ve decided to keep my contest going until the November election. First indisputable answer wins. It has to be a matter of policy. Anyone, even the Bushites, can do ONE good thing in six years, but that doesn’t make it “policy“.

Name JUST ONE sucessful Bush Administration policy and WIN A DVD, your choice:

o “Why We Fight” - a documentary on Republican President Eisenhower’s parting words regarding the growing “military industrial complex” he saw coming in the wake of World War II.

o Syriana - Four intertwining stories revolving around the merger of two fictional oil conglomerates in the United States and their involvement in the Middle East.

o All the Presidents’ Men - The quintessential political docu-drama about Wordward & Bernstein uncovering the Watergate scandal that brought down the Nixon Administration.

o “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room” - Documentary about the most catastrophic corporate meltdown in history.

o “V for Vendetta” - From the creators of The Matrix, the 2006 hit movie set in England about a vigilante that seeks revenge on the fascist dictatorship that destroyed his life and ruined his country.

Post a comment if you have an answer. First irrefutable answer wins. (”success” here is defined as a positive outcome from a positive agenda put forth by the Bush Administration.)

Contest ends election day, November 2, 2006.

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