Back in 2004 - a coworker of mine (and an unapologetic Conservative Republican) raved at Bush's victory in winning his 2nd term. As he boisterously gloated - he told me straight out that Bush is good for me and for this country. He will improve this country and we will all be much better with him in office for the next 4 years.

Well it is now 2008. This co-worker no longer works at my firm (at last I heard he was unemployed). And this country (in my opinion) is in worst shape than it was 4 years ago.

This is a list of Bush's accomplishments in office.

1. Tax cuts leading to massive, unprecedented deficits
2. Preemptive wars against non-aggressive nations
3. Sanctioning of torture
4. De-regulation of environment protections
5. Weakening of the separation of church and state
6. Exempting the gun industry from lawsuits
7. Weakening of individual privacy protections
8. Rejection of international organizations - U.N., World Court, etc.
9. Increased hatred of the U.S.A. in Islamic countries
10. Increase in terrorist attacks since 9/11
11. Neglect of poverty in the U.S.A. and abroad
12. Shifting the tax burden from wealthy corporations and individuals to wage earners
13. Reducing (hoping to abolish) estate taxes thus creating "a permanent aristocracy" in America
14. Furthering anti-intellectualism - a president who admittedly does not read and is embarrassingly inarticulate
15. Increased military spending; hostility to spending for social services
16. Increased number of Americans without health care
17. Rejection of minimum wage increases - five consecutive years
18. Applying the principle of awarding lucrative contracts to crony companies without competitive bidding
19. Attempts to privatize Social Security
20. Four consecutive years of increases in the percentage of Americans living in poverty.

And unfortunately - Bush will never have to answer to his unlawful, unconstitutional acts that systematically is destroying this country.

I laugh when these Bush-supporters continue to defend him. He is leaving office as a President in which these will be his major event Legacy of his tenure:
-a major terrorist attack which killed 3000 Americans and the administration ignored warnings, and the guy who did it is still making videos
-he engaged the country in a war in Iraq based on a false assumption which has resulted in 4000 US deaths and 20,000 wounded and will require thousands of US troops there to nation build
-presided over two recessions (and don't tell me the current problems aren't a recession)
-presided over the near destruction of a major American city where the government was and still asleep at the wheel
-he presided over a political retribution by the Vice Presidents' office in which a covert CIA agents' cover was blown
-his friends in the oil industry have profited handsomely while gas prices have quadrupled.

The best legacy Bush will give us will be eight years of democratic domination!