Yup. I have no problem admitting that Bush has been a disappointment in several areas, but his economic policies I can support and defend. The tax cuts spurred economic growth causing almost unprecedented increases in treasury revenues. I am never opposed to the government allowing the people to spend their own money instead of the government confiscating and using it to buy votes via earmarks et al. All the credible economists I've read give Bernanke high marks in doing his job. The concept of the Federal Reserve itself does deserve a debate but most American have too little understanding of it to participate intelligently.
Where Bush has gone wrong is in promoting more big government programs and in failing to rein in an out-of-control Congress that includes both Democrats and Republicans the last time I looked. Every year they approved budgets far larger than those the President asked for. The budget the new Democratically controlled Congress has approved is the biggest ever--no spending cuts I can see but a whole lot more of new spending. The President's more modest one was declared dead on arrival as is always the case when the opposing party is in power.
