Bush was a tard that built complete distrust by the people of the government over 8 years. What is really dumb is he could have been very successful. As many leaders find, tragedy breeds success. 9/11 could have been a starting point of something huge for the USA as far as domestic and foreign relations went, he crapped all over that ball.

The current admin has been handed two wars, a failing economic policy and domestic fatigue. However, they knew this when they took the job. Shoveling money into the fire is not the way out, never will be and never has been. And the new admin will shortly be faced with a war between Israel and Iran (that will definitely occur in some form in the next 4 years), not to mention North Korea and its neighbors. Republicans need to start picking their battles and not simply saying 'wrong' to everything. I think they've learned that.

Back to OP:

So far this admin attempted to handle a financial issue by borrowing money (spend it to make it I guess) they are also taking on far to many long term responsibilities and haven't even dealt with the tragedy that is Social Security and its younger sibling Medicare. These will end up being something this admin puts off for at least 2 more years.

What amazes me is that Bush was hammered for a 700B spending spree but 3T is 'OK' now?? Now this admin has done some good; Cuba for instance..awesome, now drop all of the embargo, telling Israel to stop building settlements, requiring better fuel economy (smart but badly timed), making credit cards easier to 'understand' for the less inclined. I completely disagree with Bush/Obama on their handling of the housing problem, but that is just me I guess. I give the new admin very little 'we had this problem' leeway because they knew this going in. None of these problems they are dealing with are new, they all existed prior to election.

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