Bush did, I feel, a great job in his first term.
He ran a great campaign for his Second Term.
Now he seems to have taken on the roll of a true "lame duck".
The only thing he seems to talk about is Social Security Reform when more pressing issues are at hand.
Again, I agree with his Social Security proposals. But the problem is far in the future, and if the Dems want to screw around and do nothing - not even offer a counterproposal - the heck with it. It will come back in the future to bite THEM in the butt.
Meanwhile in order to stablize his victory in Iraq, shore up democratic movements in the Middle East and forstall terrorism, he needs to do something about the Syrians and Iranians who are slipping non-Iraqi terrorists into Iraq to create havoc and attempt to undo our successes there.
If we pull out and the Ayatollahs and Syrian Baathists are still inpower - we lost.
He needs to address the looming threats from Red China and North Korea (and I don't mean by bribing them with food tribute to behave).
And domestically, it is infinitely more important to get strict constructionist judges in the federal courts - and I don't mean that loser Gonzales, get Bolton into the U.N. or totally drop all representation and support for it, and stop the hemorrhaging of our borders and get off the "guest peasant" program.
Finally, to soldify his gains, he should be giving positive coverage opportunities to a successor - someone other than John Judas McCain.
"The only thing he seems to talk about is Social Security Reform"
Who cares about social security, after the land grab decision by the marxist supreme court. Property is about the only true asset many people have, and if they don't have that....then social security doesn't mean sh*t.