<snip> Having campaigned as a more or less reasonable (if unqualified) guy, George Bush, as president, hit the ground running as a scary-as-hell conservative (see tax cuts, ABM, Kyoto etc.) That hasn't changed since 9/11. What has changed, perhaps, is the amount of attention Americans were willing to give to domestic politics. (More pressing was the question of whether we were all going to die.) The public was prepared to give the prez the benefit of the doubt on the home front -- so long as he looked like he was doing something about terrorism.
Bad idea. While you were buying gas masks and looking for Afghanistan on the map, Bush & Co. were rolling back nearly 30 years of environmental protection, tried to cram the federal bench with right-wing judges, and, by a deft combination of tax cutting and military spending, ran up a $500m deficit. </snip>
http://www.motherjones.com/news/dailymojo/2003/37/we_543_04c.htmlA nice summary of the damage done. May be a link worth sending to "undecideds."
Printer-friendly format
Email this thread to a friend
Bookmark this thread
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
