Letter to the Editor
Your editorial statement that George W. Bush is a bad president ("What happened to moving on?" Jan. 26) is patently false and, absent justification, trivial.
You denigrate Bush's appointment of judges, but his selection of John Roberts and Samuel Alito for the Supreme Court are on par with William Rehnquist, Antonin Scalia, and Clarence Thomas. Compared to his predecessor, who preferred Oval Office sex with a minor to taking custody of terrorist Osama bin Laden, Bush approaches perfection.
When Bush took office he inherited not only the Bill Clinton recession but 9-11. Following 9-11, Bush took action: ousting the Taliban/al-Qaida in Afghanistan, warning Americans that the war against radical Islam would last years. The majority of Americans and both parties in Congress also supported the ousting of Saddam Hussein, Iraq's biggest weapon of mass destruction. But Democrats in Washington are not Texas Democrats, and congressional Democrats - with their hate-America-first, Marxist-fellow-travelers attitude - began ceaseless attacks on Bush, the war in Iraq and the military. Bush and America had other enemies - rogue elements in the intelligence community leaking national secrets to The New York Times, ever eager to hinder the war effort and cater to Marxists still grieving Ronald Reagan's defeat of the Soviet Union.
That is not all. Since the Bush economic recovery began, spurred by two tax cuts, the Democrats and leftist media, led by the Times and The Washington Post, routinely compared the economy to the Roosevelt depression years of the 1930s. Never mind that the stock market doubled since 9-11, and unemployment is at record lows.
Bush made mistakes, particularly in Iraq, but the surge under Gen. David Petraeus is succeeding despite the frothing of Democrats. You correctly note Bush's failure to curb Republicans, who spent like drunken Democrats, resulting in defeat in 2006. However, his biggest mistake was an attempt at amnesty - embraced by John McCain and Ted Kennedy - for millions of illegals, fortunately defeated by an aroused public.
Hubert Baker, Aiken, S.C.
