Usually the surveys themselves have a box at the end to fill in with "any comments about this survey". This survey didn't have such a box, and it was a very strange, short survey. Some of the other questions were, "in hindsight, do you think invading Iraq was a good idea, or a bad idea?" (I checked 'bad idea') a question about whether the Iraq war was worth the cost in lives and expenses or not (I said, 'not worth it',) and a question about who was winning: the insurgents, the US, or nobody (I said 'nobody'.) I figure that KK probably didn't have any choice in what was being asked. I expect I was part of some pol's focused response group.
If he implements half of these new programs at all well,
Given his track record, I doubt that most of these will be implemented AT ALL, full stop. Bush has demonstrated a wonderful ability to make reasonable sounding proposals, and then go on doing whatever nonsense he actually cares about. And the proposals you like are directly counter to the philosophies revealed by his *actions* in the last five years.
I think that Presidents shouldn't be allowed credit for programs which have most of their action after their terms are over. There's a lot of that going around.
That seems incorrect to me. Some plans honestly take a long time to show effects. I've always been bugged by the fact that Nixon has his name on a plaque on the moon, when he didn't do much beyond "fail to stop NASA".
OTOH, I don't think that anyone should get credit until the effects are *in*, one way or another.
Of course I agree. He proposed increasing our math and science education quality in order to compete better with India and China, without any suggestion of how to do it or how to pay for it. He said nice things about being non-partisan, and he even proposed an initiative to become no longer dependent on oil for power, listing a bunch of alternatives he favored. Fine, but he cut the money for those kinds of things in his budget.
"He is now as valiant as Hercules that only tells a lie and swears it!" Beatrice from Much Ado About Nothing.
It really irks me that politicians can get away with lying without anyone calling them on it.
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Given his track record, I doubt that most of these will be implemented AT ALL, full stop. Bush has demonstrated a wonderful ability to make reasonable sounding proposals, and then go on doing whatever nonsense he actually cares about. And the proposals you like are directly counter to the philosophies revealed by his *actions* in the last five years.
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OTOH, I don't think that anyone should get credit until the effects are *in*, one way or another.
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"He is now as valiant as Hercules that only tells a lie and swears it!" Beatrice from Much Ado About Nothing.
It really irks me that politicians can get away with lying without anyone calling them on it.
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