Everyone has been having their own vanity and I’m guilty myself! How sad you escaped from a communist country and now the United States is going communist. And Bush and the Republicans did lose their way. I think there are just those weaklings who couldn’t deal with the media hate spewed daily and were trying to fight the stereotype how Republicans are ‘for the rich’ and got lost with the spending. Bush has been a complete weakling in explaining a lot of things and fighting back. He has not been all bad(judges, tax cuts, taking the war to the terrorists), but he certainly betrayed a lot of conservatives with the spending, push for amnesty. I have to give Bush credit though because the economy and everything just went completely downhill when the Demonrat Congress took over in 2006. Bush had early on pushed for more sources of domestic energy, drilling in ANWR and, of course, with the handful of RINOS and the barely there ‘majority’ that shared power in the Senate would kill a lot of these things and the hit to the economy happened when gas prices took off and then hit with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and that goes back to Clintoon and a policy of bad loans favored by Demonrats and their precious ACORN and yet it was all Bush’s fault. So he’s been unjustifiably hit even though he himself proposed doing something about the bad loans. I can’t believe McCain didn’t make an issue of the Demonrat involvement in the whole mess and that is really why he lost-he wouldn’t name names and they blamed Republicans! Republicans have always been spineless when it comes to hitting back and setting things straight. Now they are dead really because the Demonrats have a permanent majority and this country will pay dearly for it.
You’re still speaking truth to power. lol You’re absolutely right as well. When Democrats stonewalled on more regulation of Fannie and Freddie, Bush should have used the Bully Pulpit and clearly and concisely let the people know what they did and what it could mean to them. There are dozens of such examples. TC