The Bush Lunacy, err "Legacy"

Once we are all able to step back and "total up" the accomplishments of the Bush Administration, we will find - none. Of course many things happened, and we reacted time and again, but what can we put down as an "accomplishment" for the 2 terms of George W. Bush? Of course there WAS the Mission in Iraq which was labeled as "Accomplished" on that aircraft carrier back in 2003. We turned the nation's largest budget surplus into the largest budget deficit ever for ANY nation in all of recorded history. For the first time EVER we started a war- attacked a country that HAD NOT attacked us first. In a world which is rapidly and widely moving towards providing healthcare for all citizens WE have held the line, even though our life expectancy and infant mortality rank as nearly THE VERY WORST among "first-world" countries. And while gay and Lesbian people are being granted legal equality - including marriage rights- in a large AND rapidly growing number of countries we have passed laws ensuring that they cannot even obtain medical insurance for their children. (This last one COULD be seen as an accomplishment, but as the mid-term elections near President Bush has again brought out the issue of a Constitutional Amendment - hoping to ensure that the US will be the first nation since Nazi Germany to enshrine a caste system into its most sacred documents. The problem is that no one expects this to pass the long amendment process.) This last point brings up the fact that he HAS been very good at convincing people to vote in ways we might NEVER have expected even 10 years ago. How DO you convince millions of people to pass tax breaks for people who make more in a year than they will IN THEIR ENTIRE LIFETIMES and fund those giveaways by eliminating funding for their OWN children's schools, vocational programs and medical care? It takes SOME SORT of talent to convince a person who will never even know someone who might have to actually pay an estate tax that it is an unfair burden to the children of multi-millionaires to have the money left to them by their parents taxed even knowing that this will mean that their own children will lose any opportunity to get a college scholarship.

I am very, very serious. I ask ANYONE reading this who still supports "W" to explain to me "WHY". Please try to give a rational, factual answer. Be honest. As I sit here thinking I am utterly convinced that this has been THE WORST 6 years in American history- financially, internationally- BY ANY MEASURE. I see not a single bright spot in the Bush presidency. Fewer jobs created than any recent president. Constant corruption. Loss of civil liberties WITHOUT any real progress in the "war on terror". Total mismanagement of Iraq. Broken treaties.

Again- PLEASE show me if I have missed something. Give me ANY branch to cling to before I am swept away in a flood of misery- mishandled by an incompetent, unqualified political lackey appointed to appease a rich corporate backer.