Arsenic is good for you.

Good neighbors are good, but good enemies are better.
China would probably be a good ally, but it’s better to piss them off. You never know when you’ll have to divert attention from a sagging economy or messed up domestic policies with a strong-arm conflict with a large nation. Same with Russia. Planning ahead, you see, is very important. Besides, when was the last time we had a good arms race? And treaties, like rules, are meant to be broken anyway.

Good friends are good for you
Especially when those friends have lots and lots of money. Lots. And when they help you get elected. Be sure, though, that you reward those friends with everything they want, regardless of whether those rewards are good for anyone else.

Clean air is bad for you, bad for your children, and bad for the planet.
Of course, the health of the planet doesn’t matter anyway. The health of your children matters — barely — as long as concern for their health doesn’t get in the way of rewarding those rich friends of yours.

Conserving what is in limited supply is bad. Wasteful consumption is good.
Just ask Smilin’ Dick Cheney.

There’s no such thing as a non-renewable resource. Everything is in infinite supply.
Again, just ask Smilin’ Dick Cheney. In spite of all available evidence that suggests that fossil fuels are in limited supply, there really is an infinite pool of oil and coal existing in an alternate dimension just beneath the surface of the earth, more than enough to justify building one power plant per week, every week, for the next twenty years. Most of the portals to this Dimension of Infinite Oil are located underneath wildlife reserves.

Animals just don’t %@#$@ matter!
They’ve been telling us that for years! If an species is endangered, just let it freakin’ die out already and decrease the surplus population! If we started a job of extinction, we’d better finish it off. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.

When you have alienated half the nation (or more) then you have achieved true bipartisan unity.
Not to mention most of the rest of the world as well.