Yes, but not the rest of the country. Now that the people at large are getting behind defunding some of this stuff (not to mention the individual states taking legal action against ACORN) with some muscle it's much easier to take action.
If Bush had single-handedly singled out groups which "care for the poverty-stricken" he would have had an even more vicious backlash than he had to carry in prosecuting the WOT. Plus, he would have had people like Ozero with his beautiful, lofty, speaking skills taking center stage on the MSM every hour convincing the people about how evil Bush was.
Bush is not God. One man cannot correct every ill. In a monarchy...OK...the guy at the top can do whatever he wants. But the political will of the people has to be there on most of the big things in a democracy. And the entitlement mentality is a big thing.
>> If Bush had single-handedly singled out groups which “care for the poverty-stricken” he would have had an even more vicious backlash than he had to carry in prosecuting the WOT. <<
1. EVERY liberal group claims to be for the poverty stricken. If a Republican president has such a complete lack of a scrotum that he can’t cut funds to even the most radical, anti-American, corrupt and hate-filled groups, what’s the point of having a Republican party? Why not just have a Proudly Socialist party and a Cowardly Socialist party.
2. You continue to ignore the fact that the Bush Administration did NOT simply cut funds to such groups, but greatly expanded funds to most of these groups, and that these funds were NOT mandated by Congress, but were grants selected by the Bush administration.
3. If you can’t get the leftists in the mainstream media to like you by allowing them rape you daily, like Bush did, why not stand up to them?
4. One man may not be able to correct every ill, but he at least could try to correct some of them, rather than grandly compounding them in a manner that there’s no way in Hell Clinton ever could. Remember the saying, “Only Nixon could go to China?” Now we’re learning, “Only Bush could fund every crackpot, hate-fillled, anti-American organization in the universe.”