I have no criticism of war on terror foreign policy.
And I have plenty to say about the Dems. But the topic today is GWB and Miers.
He did, in fact, give us the prescription drugs entitlement. I am using the term in the strict sense; you are not (referring to war on terror as an entitlement...whatever). The fact is that that passed ONLY because Bush pushed it and it passed only because the White House whipped GOP votes to get it. It is in fact the larges entitlement (in fact the only new entitlement) since LBJ ...and it is disastrous. If it is not repealed, it will bankrupt the country.
No conservative...indeed no moderate should be anything less than furious about that.
With regards to our standing in the Senate, some blame is to be shared. We have no majority leader. Of course...if you think about it? Who lobbied so hard to have this particular spineless Majority Leader? That's right...the White House.
With a real conservative as President, we would have NO prescription drugs entitlement, and we would still have a few shreds of the First Amendment.
The sad thing is that he could have taken the conservative stand on both of those items and it would NOT have cost him a thing politically. It probably would have benefitted him. But, we are told, we just have to trust teh political ops at the White House...they are geniuses, they play chess not checkers, blah, blah, blah....
Bush has taken a lot of heat from the left for not having a hillary care universal health care plan.
You put the dems back in power the first thing you will get is universal health care which will dwarf the prescription bill.
Sadly, I agree with you.