It’s NOT because he lied, because he didn’t.
It is because:
- Mr. Bush has presided over the fastest growth in federal spending since the great Society in the 1960s.
- Mr. Bush put the Republican seal of approval on the biggest intrusion of federal power into the classroom in history (No Child Left Behind)
- Mr. Bush and the Republican party passed the most expensive public works program ever (the 2005 highway bill)
- Mr. Bush created the largest new entitlement program since the creation of Medicare and Medicaid (the prescription-drug benefit)
- Mr. Bush rode roughshod over states’ rights on issues such as assisted suicide
- Mr. Bush has expanded the federal government’s power to eavesdrop on its citizens
- Mr. Bush created the Department of Homeland Security – which is more 1984ish (even the name is doublespeak) than anything else one could possibly dream up
- Mr. Bush protected the steel industry (a special interest – buying popularity) at great costs to US consumers of steel (import tariffs)
- Mr. Bush’s supreme court nominees have pushed the court far to the right
To paraphrase one of the most heinous people on the planet: “Dude, where’s my party?”
(much of this is borrowed from The Economist, May 31, 2008, page 38)
