No. Not by a long shot! It's hard to decide, but his biggest fault was either (1) SPENDING more of the American working man and woman's hard earned money than any President since Lyndon Johnson or (2) INCREASING the burden of entitlements on the same working man and woman or (3) REFUSING to enforce U.S. immigration laws IN VIOLATION of his oath of office to uphold U.S. law.
"Poor on spending, and terrible on illegal immigration" indeed!
I repeat: He's one of the worst Presidents in U.S. history--and this from one of his--FORMER--most enthusiastic and loyal supporters.
One of the stupidest things he did was alienate US--us who had worked for him, campagned for him, praised him (here on FR and elsewhere), and even nominated him for Mount Rushmore! He had to go WAY out of this way to do that, but he managed to do it.
Just take an honest look at the facts! Bush was a FAILURE!
I provided facts, you provide leftist talking points. We had a long period of growth and low unemployment. He ended up making two excellent USSC nominees, and slew of other good judicial nominees.
You are way over-blowing his spending problems. He was not good on the issue, and was not a champion of cutting or limiting government, but your multiplying the problem by many magnitudes. The deficit was shrinking down towards 100 billion in his last couple years with Republican majorities. After the 9/11 years, necessary military action and sputtering economy that resulted, the deficit ballooned, and then came back down.
They still should have done much, much better when we had majorities in both houses. It was a missed opportunity, but not historically out of whack. You seem to ignore that the vast portions of spending are established entitlement spending. We can probably all agree that the prescription drug program was not desirable, but he ran on it and won with the issues. It also was a well constructed program that has come in below budget and at lower costs, and is cited in Ryan’s program as a better model than the rest of Medicare.
Bottom line, spouting leftist talking points about Bush are completely unnecessary and incorrect. Bush’s presidency was a mixed bag, and a lot of us are frustrated with decisions by both the White House and the Congress during that time, but we had a lot of positive results during that time, and historically the first 4-5 years will be seen as very positive. The second term was a political failure first and foremost, and a governing failure in that little to nothing in domestic legislation was accomplished.