Bush came into the Presidency with a personal agenda to assert more Executive power. Probably because Clinton had so tainted the image of the Presidency. Congress is worthless on most every important issue. The Senate is a bunch of stodgy creeps. They are so out-of-touch with the American public that they don't know how to write bills but they do know how to give themselves raises. Bush should veto some of the more errant laws they write. But, Bush is making his own statement his own way. And, good for him. I keep thinking of the nightmare if Kerry had won.
Kerry definitely would have been a nightmare. But GWB has not been a bed of roses. The American people were not demanding the RX entitlment that the president pushed for and got. The people weren't demanding campaign finance regulations that the president pushed for and got. And the president has yet to veto a single bill. That's actually pathetic when you think about it. But Kerry was so horrible to contemplate, that no one need second guess voting for GWB. We truly had no choice.