I am going to list Bush’s achievements here.
Bush achievements:
2001 – 2002 recession, dot com meltdown. NASDAQ plunged from 5500 to 1100.
9/11 happened under Bush’s watch.
Packing the Supreme Court with extreme right wing Republicans like Alito and Roberts
Appointment of Ashcroft as Attorney general (the man who lost his Senate election to a dead man).
Mortgage crises.
Deregulation of big business, which led to the mortgage crises.
Bush inherited a healthy, roaring economy, with a surplus of more than 100 billion $. One of his first act was to give tax cuts, mostly to the rich, and fritter away all the surplus. Bush converted 100 billion $ surplus to 1 trillion $ deficit (I think that is the current estimate, it probably will go up).
Longest economic recession in memory (USA has been in recession for the past year, with no end in sight).
The worst economic crisis since the Great Depression (some are saying this may even rival the Great Depression).
Bush had the ignominy to preside over two severe economic downturns during his eight years of Presidency, I think the only President in recent memory to do so.
Finally the one achievement Bush can truly be proud of, to help get Obama elected.
He is responsible for bitterly dividing the county right down the middle 50:50. It was the strategy of Bush and Carl Rowe, to be the President of 50%+1 Americans, screw the rest. And the strategy worked; in 2004 he got elected by the slimmest of margins over John Kerry. If the state of Ohio had flipped (gone to Kerry instead of Bush), Kerry would have won.
Bush (along with the hate radio) has been responsible for poisoning the political atmosphere of the country.
Invasion of Iraq, in spite of faulty intelligence, in defiance of UN directives.
Is it any wonder his approval rating is in low 20s?
I don’t think the list is exhaustive, one could probably find many more items describing Bush legacy (e.g. Katrina fiasco).
Bush achievements:
2001 – 2002 recession, dot com meltdown. NASDAQ plunged from 5500 to 1100.
9/11 happened under Bush’s watch.
Packing the Supreme Court with extreme right wing Republicans like Alito and Roberts
Appointment of Ashcroft as Attorney general (the man who lost his Senate election to a dead man).
Mortgage crises.
Deregulation of big business, which led to the mortgage crises.
Bush inherited a healthy, roaring economy, with a surplus of more than 100 billion $. One of his first act was to give tax cuts, mostly to the rich, and fritter away all the surplus. Bush converted 100 billion $ surplus to 1 trillion $ deficit (I think that is the current estimate, it probably will go up).
Longest economic recession in memory (USA has been in recession for the past year, with no end in sight).
The worst economic crisis since the Great Depression (some are saying this may even rival the Great Depression).
Bush had the ignominy to preside over two severe economic downturns during his eight years of Presidency, I think the only President in recent memory to do so.
Finally the one achievement Bush can truly be proud of, to help get Obama elected.
He is responsible for bitterly dividing the county right down the middle 50:50. It was the strategy of Bush and Carl Rowe, to be the President of 50%+1 Americans, screw the rest. And the strategy worked; in 2004 he got elected by the slimmest of margins over John Kerry. If the state of Ohio had flipped (gone to Kerry instead of Bush), Kerry would have won.
Bush (along with the hate radio) has been responsible for poisoning the political atmosphere of the country.
Invasion of Iraq, in spite of faulty intelligence, in defiance of UN directives.
Is it any wonder his approval rating is in low 20s?
I don’t think the list is exhaustive, one could probably find many more items describing Bush legacy (e.g. Katrina fiasco).
