[andy58-in-nh]

Worse than that, I fear. It is more like T.S. Eliot's "April" in The Wasteland:

April is the cruelest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.

We'd hoped for - and deserved - so much more.

[johnny7]

We'd hoped for - and deserved - so much more.

Deserving ain't got nothing to do with it.

[Defiant]

Bush deserves a very significant part of the blame for failing to do more than he has, but please don't leave out people like John McCain, who basically stopped the second term in its tracks in the Senate. He made himself co-president, with veto over judges and with a cohort of likeminded leftwing GOP Senators, assured that they would control the legislative agenda.

Thanks go also to Dewine, Hagel, Graham, Chafee for grandstanding and playing to Democrat claims, which always were phony. The vote in November was a vote of disgust with this type of leadership from Republicans. Not everyone could hold their nose tight enough to vote GOP this time.