Regarding the economy, are you really confident that the answer to the current economic stagnation and uncertainty is more and deeper tax cuts and a continuation of the Bush-era economic policies? It’s time for the fairy tale of supply side economics to be retired the the dustbin of history. There are plenty of legitimate reasons to support a relatively low tax rate, but increased revenues are not one of them. Our taxes already are ridiculously low by global standards.

As to civil liberties, it goes much further than mere airport security. Electronic surveillance has been by far the most egregious example of the way the administration has broken the public trust, but, beyond any specific policy, the way in which they have gone about doing it is the most troubling. They clearly do not believe that the people’s representatives in Congress have any role to play in how the people’s security is defended. Someone ought to remind him that his oath of office demands that he protect the idea that is America, “the Constitution of the United States”, not the American people.

I have, in fact, noticed the number of terrorist attacks spike immensely since 9/11 (sorry if I include all humans here, not just people who live between Canada and Mexico and who happen not to be deployed overseas somewhere), to a large extent because of arrogant people playing with armies without understanding how to or listening to those who do.

I have noticed that the tax cuts Bush engineered were balanced by other taxes and/or will have to be balanced by other taxes so that the economy doesn’t suffer more through a higher federal deficit (excuse me if I hold presidents responsible for the effects of their policies, even after they’ve been retired).

I have noticed that the judges Bush appointed are just as activist as those they replaced, they just legislate from the bench for big business and for federal agencies instead of legislating for the citizen and for our God-given natural rights.

And I probably don’t need to explain to you how much more invasive the federal government has become in the name of national security over the last seven years.

I don’t understand my fellow conservatives when they choose and pick to see realities so they can idolize poor leadership. My ideal is not the Republican party. My ideal is freedom. And Mr. Bush has done just about everything to create the illusion of freedom and to instead restrict our rights, our freedom of travel, our safety (unless we cower at home), and our freedom to enjoy the fruits of our labor — which instead go paying for reckless foreign invasions and to bail out recessions brought on by poor economic policies based on big, but unrealistic economic theories, implemented by people who partied their way through their MBA.

You know, just because you kind of like a guy doesn’t mean that he’s not a failure. Bush is one. By any standard.

That sounds pretty much like the Bush administration, doesn’t it?