[dirtboy]

Your own money was taken by the government and President Bush gave you some back.

The amount the government takes, IMO, is less important than what the government spends. What good did it do to get a tax break when spending increased massively? Sooner or later, that needs to be paid for, either by me or by future generations.

Bush has had four primary failings:

1 - increased federal government involvement in education

2 - failure to increase border security or deal with illegal immigration

3 - runaway spending

4 - the Medicare prescription drug benefit, which made our entitlement crisis worse, not better.

Those are not trivial matters. And he needs to hear that he was wrong - especially on #2, which is a serious threat to our safety and a failure to carry out his proper, constitutional duties. The other three are usurpations of federal power - but borders are a fundamental federal responsibility.

[Protagoras]

The amount the government takes, IMO, is less important than what the government spends.

Precisely why Dr. Walter Williams has advocated a constitutional SPENDING CAP as expressed by percentage of GNP.

[sauropod]

You forgot the Farm Bill, CFR, endorsing civil "unions" and a host of other things.

Only thing he's done right is the WOT.

[Czar]

Good post, and right on target.