I have to respectfully disagree. Ronald Reagan didn’t have nearly the allies in Congress that Bush had and got a lot more done. Bush’s problem from the getgo was the “new tone” BS. He actually thought he could be friends with the Dems and they would be friends back. One of his first acts in office was to invite the Kennedys to watch that movie about JFK and one of his second acts was to collude with Ted on the No Child Left Behind Act. Kennedy has repaid him with ugly vitriol, but here’s Ted right back in the middle of the Sell America Down the River with Amnesty Act of 2007, and he and Bush are bestest buddies. That is, until Ted stabs Bush in the back the next time.
Bush has been obsessed since the beginning of his Presidency with making nicey nice with those who despise him while ignoring the conservative men and women in Congress who should have been his natural allies. If he has nobody left in Congress to follow his lead, and he pretty much doesn’t, he should look in the mirror to see why.
After 911 Bush had the best opportunity in several generations to remake the country in a conservative image, and he blew it. Completely. Now, sadly, he’s teetering on the edge of being a failed President, desperately grasping at a legacy, any legacy, at least as openly as Bill Clinton did in his final months. And Bush has NO ONE to blame but himself.
I have always wondered why many Republicans feel they can be friends with the DemocRats. Some Rats are anti American, and are enemies to me. I take this so seriously, I pride myself on not having any close friends who are Democrats. They may be aqaintances, but never friends. That is simply MHO, others conservatives may or may not agree.