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This thread is so laughable, to see extremely intelligent people being pessimistic about our wonderful president, those that would toss him out without considering his long-term goals. (and some of his limitations).
I wish I was brilliant enough to list all his accomplishments, not just whine about what he has done that I didn't agreee with.
It also reflects badly to the press and rat web forums,
DIVIDE AND CONQUER-the OLDEST method in the world, and we are supposed to be to intelligent to fall for it!
At least the dems stick together, I have to admire them for that.
Myself, I think GWB is brilliant, and although am concerned with the expansion of government overspending, am really certain he is pulling the democratic issues out from under them-brilliant. Altho he has to take some heat over it, in the long run, I believe he wants to revamp Medicare, (and possibly IRS?) but not until his second term and IF he can get a bullet proof majority in the senate.
And for the staunch conservatives will be able hopefully in his second term will be able to further his goals of a smaller government.
WE have to remember that he has only been in power 2.5 years, even getting a late start and having several world crises to manage. IMHO has done a wonderful job with foreign relations.
Somewhere I read that presidents, in their first term NEVER get as much accomplished as their second term.
As far as calling him liberal ratty rat, Todd, go to DU to see how they laugh at you.

President Reagan said it best, imo.

Bold and underline formatting is mine.

~~ Ronald Reagan, in his autobiography, An American Life

"When I began entering into the give and take of legislative bargaining in Sacramento, a lot of the most radical conservatives who had supported me during the election didn't like it.
"Compromise" was a dirty word to them and they wouldn't face the fact that we couldn't get all of what we wanted today. They wanted all or nothing and they wanted it all at once. If you don't get it all, some said, don't take anything.
"I'd learned while negotiating union contracts that you seldom got everything you asked for. And I agreed with FDR, who said in 1933: 'I have no expectations of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average.'

"If you got seventy-five or eighty percent of what you were asking for, I say, you take it and fight for the rest later, and that's what I told these radical conservatives who never got used to it.

Memories may 'light the corner of your mind'.......but 'tis always a good thing to keep them HONEST memories, no?