[1010RD]

And the other to are?

[Raven6]

Keeping in mind that there are more than three... the other two are 1) the fact that he, during a time when it would have been a much easier problem to solve, failed to secure our borders properly by failing to bring full pressure from his office [and by use of public opinion] on Congress to to take the action needed to do so. I really don't understand what it is about Texas governors past and present not being able to make a stand on this. Regardless of how "heartless" I may sound, illegal immigration is a drain on our resources and needs to be stopped. 2) Bush's signing of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008. Yeah... that fixed things. /S

My beef with Bush, many Republicans, and most all Democrats, is that they acted as though the money available to them for use in operation of the federal government and the many entitlement programs it administers was endless(this is beside the known fact that the Treasury can print as much money as they choose regardless of and quite often without regard to the long term consequenses). When you're in a hole you stop digging. For some reason, they thought they could dig a hole that would bring them back to a zero deficit.

Was he better than Gore or Kerry would have been? Yes, I'm sure he was... We he perfect? By no means...