[staytrue]

The first bush act was to fight for a sizable tax cut. Bush respects the men and women in the military and for keeping it strong. Bush expects and demands ethics from businessmen. Bush appoints judges who respect the law instead of creating it. Bush wants a strong and effective public school system. The last point while a noble one, is probably where he has gone off the reservation. The public school system, like any monopoly, can only be reformed by letting the free market work its will. Mostly, Bush is very republican.

Let's look at what a democrat really is. A democrat says one thing just to get votes and then does another to enrich himself. A democrat used to stand for the little guy. Now, a democrat gives the same speech but generally will do anything to stay in power and that includes screwing the little guy. I don't know what democrats stand for except money and power. This does not describe President Bush.

[RAT Patrol]

A democrat says one thing just to get votes and then does another to enrich himself. In many ways, that describes Bush precisely. Admittedly, he's great on faith issues and I was getting pretty sick of the Christian bashing done by the previous WH occupants. I'll always be grateful to Bush for that. Sure would be nice if he'd act like a conservative too. I voted for him because of his stand on the issues. Like a sucker, I believed he meant what he said. (Maybe he did mean it but when push comes to shove he just always gets pushed--I don't know. Sellout or pushover--the results are the same either way.)

[Kaslin]

Well said

[Red Jones]

the wall street journal said that president bush' tax cut was 'irrelevant' to the economy because it was so small. Lots of others who looked at the tax cut as an economist or an accountant likewise said that it was so small as to be meaningless. So, personally i don't see bush as someone who did try to cut taxes. He just put on a show, that was all.

Also, Bush orchestrated a massive increase in spending on the department of education, something like a 60% one time increase in spending by bush. They now spend 55-60 billion dollars on a big bureaucracy in washington that doesn't educate anyone. If they took 55 billion dollars and just used it to fund actual schools, then they could send 5.5 million kids to school at ten thousand dollars a head per year.

Personally, I see little difference between Bush and a democrat.