Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Top Ten Things George Bush did that was RIGHT

Fred Barnes writing in the Weekly Standard has defined the Top Ten Things Bush got right. I agree with MOST of them. My disagreements are below:
  1. His decision in 2001 to jettison the Kyoto global warming treaty
  2. Enhanced interrogation of terrorists
  3. Rebuilding of presidential authority, badly degraded in the era of Vietnam, Watergate, and Bill Clinton
  4. Bush’s unswerving support for Israel
  5. No Child Left Behind (NCLB), the education reform bill
  6. Second inaugural address in 2005 that American foreign policy (at least his) would henceforth focus on promoting democracy around the world.
  7. The Medicare prescription drug benefit
  8. John Roberts and Sam Alito. In putting them on the Supreme Court and naming Roberts chief justice
  9. He strengthened relations with east Asian democracies (Japan, South Korea, Australia) without causing a rift with China.
  10. The surge. Bush prompted nearly unanimous disapproval in January 2007 when he announced he was sending more troops to Iraq


I am a bit wobbly on 5 and 7. NCLF was not great. Prescription Drug? Don’t think so and I could use it.

What say you?

1 comment:

Steve said...

I think the significance of the confirmation of Supreme Court justices is substantially underplayed. I suspect that at some point in the not too distant future the Court will be asked for its opinion on the actions Congress has taken in bailing out American corporations. I think that there is potential for some landmark decisions. Fortunately both Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito are extremely intelligent and thoughtful men.