I don’t mean to say Bush has done NOTHING. Much like the broken clock that is right twice a day he has done a few things. Unfortunately, he has done far too few and, to boot, he, like his father, has set the stage for continuation of this tiresome, unbearable duopoly.
I look at W as just so much lost opportunities. IMO A C- or D+ grade at best.
BTW, McCain is most definitely NOT my man I can assure you.
It helps to remember that the Clinton-Bush coziness goes back to the days of Iran-Contra, when Papa Bush was supervising covert arms shipments to Latin America out of Arkansas (with drugs making the return trip) and Governor Clinton was busy looking the other way. Further, as was clear during abortive Republican investigations into various Clinton scandals, in the culture of impunity of Washington, politics stops at corruption's edge. Almost all major corruption is either bipartisan or common enough that one side can effectively blackmail the other.
Get back with us in a year or two and let us know how bad things used to be.
W may have been able to do more- but when we put Republicans in both houses and they did not live up to our expectations either- the blame can’t be put all on Bush.