Kasz216 said:
Completly untrue. The Gini index under Bush has had the lowest growth rates since reagan. The gap between the rich and poor hasn't changed much at all. The Bush tax cuts actually made the tax code MORE progressive.... according to the tax policy center. At "best", you could say Bush did almost nothing for everybody... and the least for the rich. When it comes to the Gap between the rich and poor. Bush has been a better president then either Carter or Clinton. |
Fair enough. That point isn't essential to my argument, so I'll just let you have it.
But none of his substantive policies outside of the economic realm have accomplished much, if anything in terms of something lasting. Even his anti-terrorism policies have been mired in their own excesses (torture, circumvention of constitutional rights, unnecessary military intervention).
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson