Just in case anyone wants to do a point-by-point on the Obama is Bush-lite, here's a list of what George W. Bush did in his first 6 months (please note: does not include illegal war, million dead or broken economy on his watch). From Democratic Underground:

* Significantly eased field-testing controls of genetically engineered crops.

* Cut federal spending on libraries by $39 million.

* Cut $35 million in funding for doctors to get advanced paediatric training.

* Cut by 50% funding for research into renewable energy sources.

* Revoked rules that reduced the acceptable levels of arsenic drinking water.

* Blocked rules that would require federal agencies to offer bilingual

assistance to non-English speaking persons. This, from a candidate who would

readily fire-up his Spanish-speaking skills in front of would-be Hispanic

voters.

* Proposed to eliminate new marine protections for the Channel Islands and

the coral reefs of northwest Hawaii. San Francisco Chronicle, April 6, 2001

* Cut funding by 28% for research into cleaner, more efficient cars and

trucks.

* Suspended rules that would have strengthened the government's ability to

deny contracts to companies that violated workplace safety, environmental and

other federal laws.

* OK'd Interior Department appointee Gale Norton to send out letters to state

officials soliciting suggestions for opening up national monuments for oil

and gas drilling, coal mining, and foresting.

* Appointed John Negroponte - an un-indicted high level Iran Contra figure -

to the post of United Nations ambassador.

* Abandoned a campaign pledge to invest $100 million for rain forest

conservation.

* Reduced by 86% the Community Access Program for public hospitals, clinics

and providers of care for people without insurance.

* Rescinded a proposal to increase public access to information about the

potential consequences resulting from chemical plant accidents.

* Suspended rules that would require hardrock miners to clean up sites on

Western public lands.

* Cut $60 million from a Boy's and Girl's Clubs of America program for public

housing.

* Proposed to eliminate a federal program designed to help communities (and

successfully used in Seattle) prepare for natural disasters.

* Pulled out of the 1997 Kyoto Treaty global warming agreement.

* Cut $200 million of work force training for dislocated workers.

* Eliminated funding for the Wetlands Reserve Program, which encourages

farmers to maintain wetlands habitat on their property.

* Cut program to provide childcare to low-income families as they move from

welfare to work.

* Cut a program that provided prescription contraceptive coverage to federal

employees (though it still pays for Viagra).

* Cut $700 million in capital funds for repairs in public housing.

* Appointed Otto Reich - an un-indicted high level Iran Contra figure-to

Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs.

* Cut Environmental Protection Agency budget by $500 million.

* Proposed to curtail the ability of groups to sue in order to get an animal

placed on the Endangered Species List.

* Rescinded rule that mandated increased energy-saving efficiency regulations

for central air conditioners and heat pumps.

* Repealed workplace ergonomic rules designed to improve worker health and

safety.

* Abandoned campaign pledge to regulate carbon dioxide (CO2), the waste gas

that contributes to global warming.

* Banned federal aid to international family planning programs that offer

abortion counselling with other independent funds.

* Closed White House Office for Women's Health Initiatives and Outreach.

* Nominated David Lauriski - ex-mining company executive-to post of Assistant

Secretary of Labour for Mine Safety and Health.

* O.K.'d Interior Secretary Gale Norton to go forth with a controversial plan

to auction oil and gas development tracts off the coast eastern of Florida.

* Announced intention to open up Montana's Lewis and Clark National Forest to

oil and drilling.

* Proposes to re-draw boundaries of nation's monuments, which would

technically allow oil and gas drilling "outside" of national monuments.

* Gutted White House AIDS Office.

* Renegotiating free trade agreement with Jordan to eliminate safeguards for

the environment and workers' rights.

* Will no longer seek guidance from The American Bar Association in

recommendations for the federal judiciary appointments.

* Appointed recycling foe Lynn Scarlett as Undersecretary of the Interior.

* Took steps to abolish the White House Council on Environmental Quality.

* Cut the Community Oriented Policing Services program.

* Allowed Interior Secretary Gale Norton to shelve citizen-led grizzly bear

re-introduction plan scheduled for Idaho and Montana wilderness.

* Continues to hold up federal funding for stem cell research projects.

* Makes sure convicted misdemeanor drug users cannot get financial aid for

college, though convicted murderers can.

* Refused to fund continued cleanup of uranium-slag heap in Utah.

* Refused to fund continued litigation of the government's tobacco company

lawsuit.

* Proposed a $2 trillion tax cut, of which 43% will go to the wealthiest 1%

of Americans.

* Signed a bill making it harder for poor and middle-class Americans to file

for bankruptcy, even in the case of daunting medical bills.

* Appointed a Vice President quoted as saying "If you want to do something

about carbon dioxide emissions, then you ought to build nuclear power

plants."Vice President Dick Cheney on "Meet the Press."

* Appointed Diana "There is no gender gap in pay" Roth to the Council of

Economic Advisers. Boston Globe, March 28, 2001

* Appointed Kay Cole James - an opponent of affirmative action-to direct the

Office of Personnel Management.

* Cut $15.7 million earmarked for states to investigate cases of child abuse

and neglect.

* Helped kill a law designed to make it tougher for teenagers to get credit

cards.

* Proposed elimination of the "Reading is Fundamental" program that gives

free books to poor children.

* Is pushing for development of small nuclear weapons to attack deeply buried

targets-weapons, which would violate the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.

* Proposes to nominate Jeffrey Sutton-attorney responsible for the recent

case weakening the Americans with Disabilities Act-to federal appeals court

judgeship.

* Proposes to reverse regulation protecting 60 million acres of national

forest from logging and road building.

* Eliminated funding for the "We the People" education program which taught

schoolchildren about the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and citizenship.