Another drone, I was one once in your shoes but I have educated myself I suggest you do the same.
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If so, you haven't done it very well. You, like many Freepers, seemed to have formed your opinion of Bush based on three things: His seeming refusal to explain himself, his support for the Education Bill and the Medicare Prescription Drug Bill and the media's non-stop attacks on him.
His new book, Decision Points, does a fair job of explaining his decision process and the things he had to consider in key situations. A good example was the Hurricane Katrina debacle. He explains his anger and frustration and the hours spent on the phone trying to persuade Governor Kathleen Blanco and her Democrat cronies to request that New Orleans be declared a disaster area. By law that is a necessary first step for the federal government to get involved. Blanco et all would not do that until they could assure that they would get their hands on the allocation of the money. They didn't care about the people, only the money. That is what caused the several days of delay that led to much of the disorder and confusion that followed. Of course the media and the Democrats took full advantage of it and placed all the blame on Bush. Too bad he did not explain that then but a competent media without a political agenda could have uncovered all that with little effort.
The Education Bill put some teeth in the previous bill and actually allowed the cutting off of federal funds for schools that had failed for five years in a row. Previously there was just the threat but never any action. That made it worthwhile all by itself.
The prescription drug bill introduced the free market into that government program allowing the large drug chains to sell both generic and name brand drugs very cheaply. The last I read it had saved Medicare ninety billion dollars. Yet, to find that you would have to really dig. The MSM is not going to tell you.
When he first took office Bush and Karl Rove had great ambitions in reforming government and making it smaller. Their early efforts with Social Security showed them just how vicious the opponents of reform can be. They then decided the best they could do would be improve government by interjecting free market principles into programs when possible and streamlining them when not possible. The Department of Homeland Security was an amalgamation of several other agencies. It also attempted to remove it from the Civil Service protections of the existing agencies which prevent anyone from being fired no matter how egregious their performance. He intended that TSA be private contractors but the Democrats insisted that they be government employees and union members.
For eight years the Democrats and the media blasted Bush non-stop, calling him Hitler, demonizing him, and ridiculing him, just as this article and some Freepers have done. That and their refusal to vet Obama, instead supporting his campaign of lies, is what gave us Obama.
Apparently they did a good job because they convinced many of you.