I'm not very happy with Bush's actions or lack of actions on many issues. That's very different from saying we were all duped into voting for Bush. Bush was our best choice, and that's why I voted for him. Not because I thought he was the best possible choice, because he was the best of the choices I had available.
"Face it, we gave him, in the elections of 2004, all the help he needed to do what he said he'd do and he ain't doing it because he doesn't have the stomach and/or was never for us to begin with. Was it all hollow pandering?"
Ok, what did he say he'd do that he hasn't attempted to do. We gave him all the help he needed? Sure doesn't look that way in the Senate. For example while Bush won my home state of Ohio, our two RINO senators are a disgrace and keep working to undermine the president's efforts.
I agree that Bush isn't getting things done. I don't know why he isn't getting them done other than the Senate is unwilling to do anything. I don't think Bush is aggressive enough with the Senate and I think he should put Republican Senators on the spot for their actions and inactions.
However, the President doesn't enact law with the wave of his hand. Congress enacts laws, the President only gets the option of vetoing them or not.
On illegal immigration I'll have to say he was never with us, and downplayed that aspect rather than fact the heat from his republican base. I don't believe he really promised something other than he's worked towards, I just think he's wrong.
Isn't it, at some point, Bush's job to corral the GOPers in the Senate, argue his policies to the American people and effectively combat the liberal media? He isn't doing enough if all he's doing is riding his bike waiting to wreck. He has the numbers in the Senate and the House and he has the damn Presidency, why doesn't he act like it?