Ah yes...any valid criticism of Bush for not reining in gov't spending, the obligatory reference to DU is made by the 'bots.
That makes me a DUmmy troll too. Plus I'm voting for Hillary next election. Can't wait.
You said,
"Ah yes...any valid criticism of Bush for not reining in gov't spending, the obligatory reference to DU is made by the 'bots."
As you may know, GWB does not write spending bills. His power is limited to signing them or vetoing them. Given that GWB has ambitious Judicial and International agendas and narrow Republican majorities (weakened by an excess of RINOs), do you really think it would have been WISE for GWB to "veto" every bill that was not EXACTLY what he wanted?
IMHO, GWB has prioritized his tasks properly:
(1) Win the War in Iraq
(2) Restore America's economic prosperity, in spite of:
(a) the dot-com bust
(b) 9/11
(c) business scandals, like Enron and WorldCom
(3) Replace activist judges with constitutional judges
(4) Upgrade the military
(5) Spread democracy to disarm potential enemies of the US
(6) Make the UN less of a joke
(7) Co-opt the militarism of China and Russia
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(98) Abolish the Department of Education
(99) Abolish the Energy Department
And I think he is succeeding at those first few critical tasks.
IMHO, GWB's success will be measured by what he DOES accomplish while in office; not by what he WOULD have accomplished if only he had not wasted his political capital advocating "worthy causes" that were ultimately defeated because those pesky RINOs would not support him at "crunch-time".
If that makes me a "'bot", so be it...