Pres. Bush also has an MBA and may know more about what he's doing than we do. Unlike Pres. Clinton - Bush is not a poll driven politician. He is a meticulous planner and usually makes excellent personnel choices when it comes to selecting people who will be loyal to him and carry out his policy.
We also have to understand that President Bush is not an ultra conservative. The President believes in conservative methodology, which emphasizes accountability. He is not a micro manager, so sometimes his personnel choices might fail to live up to his expectations, but this rarely happens.
The President is also not ego driven, which means that he is trying to pave the way for the next Republican candidate for the Presidency. We need to control the Oval Office if we're to achieve the long term goals of reducing the size of government. The President shares this goal, but his plans put the implementation far into the future. The first steps to arriving at that goal are not to upset the status quo, but to massage it and move it in the right direction by way of reforms.
Instant small government would backfire on Republicans and cost us control of Congress and the Presidency. We have to remain in the game by playing the system that has been handed down to us. Anything more would crazy when we're faced constantly with a hostile press.
You spin so well and fast that if we hooked you up to a generator we could solve the USA's energy problem :)
Karl, is that you? ; )
"...usually makes excellent personell choices.....sometimes his personell choices might fail to live up to his expectations". So he's really, really good, except when he's not so good? And I assume Gen. Myers niece/Chertoff's aide's new wife is gonna make a crackerjack head of Immigration?
Excellent personnel choices? Like putting Michael Brown at the head of FEMA? There were far more eminently qualified Republicans to do that job.
You make TONS of sense!
Excellent Post!!!