So you’re telling me that if Ronald Reagan was president right now, he wouldn’t have been able to get it done?
Let’s face it, the one who has really lacked political will has been President Bush.
He got bogged down in Iraq politically, and spent every cent of his capital on winning there.
There has not been much time, energy, attention, or concern from the Bush administration for much else.
With the exception of Iraq, George has generally run from a fight.
And that’s the bottom line.
We need posts like this like a hole in the head...
Please refrain from internal fighting and settling old scores and stick to the friggin topic
We are where we are and if you insist on this tack them just vote Democratic, you will have a steady supply of cheese for your Whine!
Yeah, right he could have changed the world -- thrown all the scumbags out of DC -- gotten rid of all the lifetime bureaucrats that are protected by civil service/unions -- he had the backing of the Congress, right? You know the guys who were feeding at the trough and didn't want anything to change? Yeah, they all supported him. Clinton fired virtually every US Attorney and no one batted an eyelash. Bush fired a few and it was a national media scandal rising to the level of impeachment.
And by the way, he was two years ahead of McCain in trying to clean up Fannie/Freddie -- where was McCain then? Bush tried to eliminate the presidential appointees on the board -- the ones who walked away with millions after creative accounting episodes -- but no love there, no action, no political will.
You can hang a lot of things on Bush -- Fannie/Freddie isn't one of them.