Simply amazing to me that the same people who whine endlessly about "Bush elevated Clinton's stature" NOW want Bush to crawl down in the mud and elevate the stature of every single Bush critic by engaging in hand to hand combat with them.
Ever stop for even a heart beat to think, for just a second, that the President HAS A JOB to do? You all want him to act like a Talk Radio host and spend all his time playing smash mouth politics. That may make you feel better, it does NOTHING to move our agenda forward. Bill Clinton did that. Look how that worked out for the Democrats.
I know this is a vain effort since you all have convinced yourself and simply tune out anything that does not blankly conform to your emotional whimsy but here is what another Republican President said to people making the EXACT same complaint about him that you all make week in and week out about President Bush.
"If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference." Abraham Lincoln.
Strawman argument. I'll wait while you show me where I've said that Bush elevated Clinton's stature.
Your delight at the administration which, until November did not fight back, is astounding. No one has said the president should engage in this and most of us have said Republicans in Congress and/or administration officials (like Scott McClellan whose job it is) should do this.
You can't possibly be this obtuse.