I didn't read many comments in this long thread before posting my answer. But Tacitus nailed it early on ... and you guys proceeded to walk right into the trap.

Any actual administration does an incredibly wide variety of things ... makes hundreds, maybe thousands, of specific choices. Inevitably, not all are ideological, or consistent with the overall ideology of the administration.

Governing is really very different from espousing an ideology, in that respect.

Here, at this site, we have a fairly large gathering of politically attuned folks -- people who pay attention, read newspapers, discuss the mundande details of politics.

Yet many of you posted that there's not one thing Bush has done that's good. Anyone who pays attention and can't name one good thing is horribly (and maybe irretreavably) biased.

Posted by William Swann at August 20, 2003 01:27 PM