First up, the poll: I think Bush's first term was much better than his second. He was horrid on the domestic front, with way way too many very fiscally irresponsible policies to list here. I liked that he did not care what the rest of the world thought of his actions. However, I think *how* he handled the war on terror was very inefficient and they spun their wheels a lot. I think they could have handled the situation much better than putting all their cards into the WMD basket. I still liked him in '04, but by '05 I saw him as the fiscal liberal, very right in foreign policy, and frankly I think he used the social stuff as nothing more than a diversion to his recklessness everywhere else. Actually that last thing could be said about almost all Republicans. Hey lets bash gays and abortions and keep their eyes off the rest of our glaring problems.
As far as economies go. The one thing the people who glom onto the class warfare tripe have got to understand is this. When you tax the hell out of the "rich" especially corporations, you are in essance taxing the common guy. If a company gets taxes raised 15%, do you really honestly think they eat that cost? No, they just raise their prices 15% thus making everyone's cost of living sky rocket that much more. Except for the folks on welfare, they just get a bump to their entitlements, thus raising our taxes on that front. So, in the end, yet again, the middle class gets screwed.
