"Had Bush fired every single Clinton appointee"
That was his biggest mistake. He should have sacked everyone of them.
You got that right!
I think Dubya is too nice, FRankly. By all reports, he was raised to be and is, a gentleman. It is very, very difficult for a gentleman to kick ass and take names.
FRankly, I was hoping that he would show up as a fighter pilot FRom time to time during his Presidency. Fighter pilots, as you know, are trained to kick ass and take names. He has not done that as often as he needed to or as often as I hoped he would.
The first 100 days of his Presidency would have been a damn fine time show up as a fighter pilot (at least on his inside game) and to have kicked every Democrat ass out of the Executive Branch of our government!
At his level, being a gentleman is expected and required, but kicking some ass and taking a lot of names is also necessary, and Dubya has not shown much affinity for that sport!
The FRee world has suffered because of Dubya's tendency to follow bad advice FRom his "Inside the Evil Beltway" advisors as opposed to his own instincts, which I think are better than the ITEB advisors!