All that and the piece de resistance of signing TARP legislation on his way out the door, giving Obama the big spending corporate welfare gift that keeps on giving.
This article is just another 'hero Bush' puff piece inserted as a soft trial balloon to ease Jeb into a 2016 POTUS run. FR gets a couple of these posted very day. Bushbots love their royal family. Libs aren't the only ones who get caught up in Camelot.
I should add to the list in 8th place (see post #7) — Terry Schiavo.
Whether a fiscal conservative saw that as a negative isn’t really the issue. Pro-life conservatives were totally turned off by both Bush’s washing their hands of this young woman’s life.
It would have been better for them to say to pro-lifers “I don’t believe in her parent’s argument.” than to say “my hands are tied.”
A president or governor who thinks someone’s unjustly having their life taken but doesn’t take extraordinary measures is viewed as a milquetoast or a compromiser.