10. Refusal to sign off on Kyoto
Too early to say where this will leave us.
9. Enhanced interrogation of terrorists
We cannot know wheher that worked or not. We have his word for it, but he would never admit he was wrong if he was, so can't say.
8. Rebuilding of Presidential Authority / Executive Power
Huh? If by abuse of power, you might be right. But he did nothing to further define the limits of executive and legislative power as against each other. If anything, he coopted power that was not his to begin with.
7. Support for Israel (calling out Yasser Arafat)
I agree.
6. No Child Left Behind
No one, Republican or Democrat, child advocate or not, thinks this program is worth a crap at this point.
5. Worldwide promotion of democracy
At what cost? And did he really? Time will tell, but at this point highly doubtful.
4. Medicare prescription drug benefit
Another incremental expansion of Medicare, to be sure. But isn't that socialism? Where are the Obama critics????
3. Roberts and Alito
Time will tell. I haven't seen enough, yet. Certainly neither is initially proving to be a problem or radical in any direction, so I'm leaning that they will be fine.
2. Relations with East Asian Democracies
Are you on drugs?
1. The "Surge"
Yes, he gets credit in my book for going with that strategy.