No, and even a lot of Republicans can agree with that.
The biggest problem with the Bush Administration was that they took a unilateral approach on everything and did everything in their power to keep the legislature and the judicial system out of the loop. There are a countless number of things that the Bush Administration did that are flat out unconstitutional. And ironically he was even going behind the back of his own party in some cases.
In terms of his views on the scope of executive authority, Bush's attitude was incredibly close to Nixon's. Bush was a proponent of big government in the worst form, authoritative government that ignores the checks and balances placed upon it.
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
