[vetsvette]

"The Bush administration is now drifting idly toward a mixture of centrism and impotence."

This drift has been going on ever since he bragged about his "political capital" after the 2004 election. He wasted it all without accomplishing a single thing except for caving to the Dim's at every opportunity.

[Cyclopean Squid]

Pretty much. The planets were aligned, and W lost the telescope. What a waste.

[patriciamary]

I totally agree,it was one concession after another,and they sat by silent and let the Dem's label this war,what a shame.

[MrsEmmaPeel]

This drift has been going on ever since he bragged about his "political capital" after the 2004 election. He wasted it all without accomplishing a single thing except for caving to the Dim's at every opportunity.

I agree. At the time, I thought his bragging would bring him nothing but bad luck. Hubris always goes punished.

[Joe Boucher]

I agree unfortunately.
Wasted on nothing.
Failed to push any of the conservative agenda that got him to the presidency.
Not even a push for a ban on partial birth abortion. Spendt money like crazy. Grew govt like it was worth something. Failed to do a thing about securing our borders. Allowed 15 or 20 million illegals to stay and leach off the American tax payer.
I can go on but lets just say I'm disappointed in Mr. Bush.

[Lancey Howard]

ever since he bragged about his "political capital" after the 2004 election

You got a source for that claim, Bunky?

[votelife]

Bush's capital did get Alito and Roberts on the court

[StockAyatollah]

Its not even a drift since then. The Bushes senior and junior have always been center left, like Klintoon. They only believe in tax cuts to stimulate the economy, and not the right reason to favor them: freedom. They believe in nation building (well, destruction and then re-building), socialized medicine and welfare (free drugs for geezers program), federal control of education (no child left behind), etc.

Despite a Republican Congress we got only a half-hearted, lame attempt to do something about socialist security and the income tax, both of which should have been dismantled by now. W's judicial appointments are conservative in the sense that they will conserve the previous lefty rulings by other socialist judges, whereas what we need are radical judges who will rightly use those previous opinions as toilet paper (like Roe v. Wade).

[Harrius Magnus]

"The Bush administration is now drifting idly toward a mixture of centrism and impotence."

BS -- you neglect that he had OODLES of help from a Rep.-controlled congress (alas, no more). I think the article overstates the situation, but there is much to be learned over the events since 2004.