It’s not Bush’s fault. It’s the media’s.
When the next attack comes, Bush will be a hero again. Cheney too.
But it is Bush’s fault, not solely the last one we had, as well as congress for going along with the seemingly fixed notion that states as consenting entites in granting the Federal government powers beyond those delineated in the constitution has been entirely dispensed with.
It was never intended for the Federal government to go running roughshod over state governments and thus individual liberty whenever it pleases, regardless of issue it is intending to solve. Yet, the Republican party appears to have endorsed this shortcut through the national political process whole heartedy, attempting to achieve its own goals in the same manner that Liberals use to achieve theirs — by erroding constitutional principles to where we as individuals have little protection from the whims of Federal politicians and national political winds of various shapes and sizes regardless of which party is in power.