I really can’t remember.
They were claiming Terry Schiavo’s chances for recovery or rehab were great enough to call a special session of Congress and pass some stupid, intrusive law that applies to one individual while there are hundreds of other Americans in a ‘persistent vegetative state.’
Afghanistan was a campaign undertaken for the right reasons, but little positive has come out of it, since there was no plan to finish the job. Most of the country is still ruled by warlords and opium production is the highest it's ever been.
They said Saddam was a threat to us. But he wasn’t, unless you were in Iraq and he didn’t like you. Now, Iraq is a mess, 1700+ U.S. troops killed, 12,000 wounded and the administration says it’s at least 2 more years before we can pull out — partly because Iraq has become a destination for Jihadists from many countries. No imminent threat to the U.S., but thousands will have died, and the long-term threat to the U.S. is likely increased.
Osama? He still seems to be no big deal to W. They didn’t go after him before 9/11, and haven’t done much since.
They said Ashcroft would be a good AG, after being beaten out of his senate seat by a dead man. But he was lame and delusional. In his exit speech, he took credit for ‘making America safe’ but he only made us safe from seeing the breast of the statue of Justice,
AFAIK. He presided over the biggest explosion of new laws in history, reducing privacy to an all-time low. And isn’t if tunny how those 700 pages of new laws were ready just weeks after 9/11?
Tom Ridge? A joke. We have a whole new Federal department and it hardly has any credibility with the others.
Tenet got a medal of freedom, so he must’ve done a good job, right?
Colin Powell? A good man, but they didn’t listen to him. Looks like they gave him the job for political reasons, and then didn’t trust him to do it.
Dick Cheney? He cleared Halliburton work directly through his office! He’s slimier than Sprio Agnew, but our expectations are much lower, now.
On the economy, W is a disaster, abandoned by real conservatives for his huge deficits and pandering to Wall Street with Social Security schemes.
What’s going right for the right?