The bush years were a bust. Need I say more?
That says it all. You completely ignored the dems taking over congress. Either out of stupidity or design, either way isn't good.
That's true, although the stupidity was all on the repub side back than. By 06 we were knee deep in an unecessay war that was detracting from the war on terror & the people were starting to have second thoughts on some of the tactics used. Had bush been as reactive to the will of the people at that time as he had been in the past, nothing is set in stone, things might have played out differently.