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Oh so your saying he should be working hard to appoint judges because that is the easy way to get some wins.

Yea Clinton's legacy was Judges, but what others like Roosevelt, his legacy was legislation that he pushed hard for called "The New Deal"

Or what about Lincoln? His legacy was also legislation called the Emancipation Proclamation.

Historically Presidents have left their legacy in the form of legislation that was intended to improve live for the citizens (I say intended because I have some real issues with portions of the New Deal, but I won't go into that here) not by fill court seats.

Just because one piss poor president made a legacy for himself in the name of federal judges and not by accomplishing real legislation doesn't mean that every president should focus on nothing more than the court system, that would be a bad move for America.

SS is a real problem that should be addressed, Bush has a good plan that would fix a large amount of the problems with it, but because he is Bush the democrats and the media are committed to defeating it. Bankruptcy reform was also something that was needed, the system is being grossly abused and the reform package will have positive results.

A president should focus on accomplishing real legislation not focusing on the court system. And I voted for a president who I feel will accomplish real legislation that will make my life better.

A president should focus on accomplishing real legislation not focusing on the court system. And I voted for a president who I feel will accomplish real legislation that will make my life better.

I admire your idealism. However unless you run a credit card company, the already-passed legislation is unlikely to make your life better. To borrow your phrase, this administration has done a "piss poor" job in packaging, marketing and selling the SS reforms to the American public and Congress alike. Remember how Clinton's inept handling of several initiative left them in the dust? Politics is not big on second chances. By contrast, Bush handled the tax cuts brilliantly and deciseively, and that is a huge part of his legacy. I wish he had done the same with the SS plan, but he has not. Hope springs eternal, but it doesn't look too promising, and given the lousy reaction, it's unlikely too many GOP candidates are going to run on private accounts in 06.

As far as your downplaying the importance of judges as legacy in favor of "legislation", you should remember well how up in arms we are nearly everyday as Conservatives, as a result of left-wing judges doing an enormous amount of legislating themselves (from the bench) over the past 40 years, to the great harm of this nation.

Post 1995 the only legacy that matters is judges. Bar a constitutional ammendment ANY legislation passed by any president and congress can be warpped and or negated by the courts.

The courts ARE the issue, because they are acting as defacto unelected lifetime legislators. I voted for Bush for mainly for two reasons: WOT and judges. This is not to say that I think he was a substandard candidate, nothing could be further from the truth; but of the two main reasons to elect a president the war and judges will have the biggest long term impact on this country and my children.