I get amused by all the people trashing Bush now. Bush had flaws, but he stood by his believe in tax cuts, and strong defense, and I think two very good Supreme Court Picks that were approved (not Meirs). Those are what I want most out of a President. I would actually tell you the Republicans in Congress were as big of detriment to Bush as anyone. They caved to Democrats and the media on the Iraq lies that Bush misled instead of pointing out correctly that intelligence since the 90’s pointed to WMD and pointing out the evidence that Hussien was still striving for those capabilities.
His last 2 years was screwed by the lame duck status and the Dem’s in control not much he could do. His biggest flaw was TARP, which I didn’t agree on. He tried to challenge the flaws with Fannie and Freddie but didn’t get enough support on that (again fickle Republicans in Congress wouldn’t help him).
Quite frankly too many people posting here are revisionist Republicans. Is it Bush’s fault that we came up with a crop of dud’s running for President. You guys all blaming Bush need to help me see who on the Republican side looks more conservative, in the entire scope of things. None of the current crop of candidates are looking that strong. Palin can but not sure she will try to run for President and quite frankly, as Obama is proving, you need to be concerned with her capability to run a country. I love her attitude but everyone is seeing first hand what happens with a President that doesn’t have the experience to run a nation.
he betrayed us with the support of TARP. We got to have socialism to save capitalsim. cough cough cough
if he did such a wonderful job, then we wouldn’t have obama/pelosi. The fact that we got them IS his fault. Alot of ppl were willing to give him the benefit of the doubt, and giving him a pass on some socialism, but when he supported tarp, that betrayal was the last straw
As for Palin. We know how well she would govern by evident of what she did in Alaska. She has a record to run on and they’re good ones
No one is experienced enough to run the United States. You have to elect someone who makes good decisions.
Bush’s “softer tone” only invited the Dems to attack more. He was HORRIBLE at using the bully pulpit.
NCLB? Rank and file teachers despise that with a passion. I cannot emphasis how much they hate NCLB. Thank George Bush and Ted Kennedy.
TARP almost sank this country, and still might.
Bush is the one who brought up the immigration proposals. THat was the last straw for me.
His last 2 years was screwed by the lame duck status and the Dem’s in control not much he could do. His biggest flaw was TARP, which I didn’t agree on. He tried to challenge the flaws with Fannie and Freddie but didn’t get enough support on that (again fickle Republicans in Congress wouldn’t help him).
worth repeating.