“GW Bush was a disappointment.”
And that’s his up-side. He was an embarrassment and was incompetent on so many levels. We might’ve been able to survive Hussein’s administration if Bush hadn’t started the ball rolling downhill while in office. Pathetic.
Agreed that it is time to call Bush what he was. A big spending incompetent. He had a GOP congress for a large portion of his term. Yet he allowed the wall street banks to have 40 to 1 leverage courtesy of his treasury secretary in 2004 waiving the leverage rule. That is a big part of what brought things down.
He allowed his big business Texas buddies to flood the US the with cheap and illegal Mexican labor. He blew a hole open in the budget with spending. He went into Iraq with way too few troops.
In the end, I really can only support the guy for his handling of 9-11 which was outstanding leadership and his two conservative Supreme Court picks.