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I really don't think it's in the best interest of any political candidate to set up the standard of everything bad that happens during a President's terms is his or her fault. We may have that expectation, but it's a childlike and delusional one and I don't think that good executives are served by it either.
Bush could have provided better leadership. I don't think anyone seriously wants to see him in office even a minute longer than his present term.
But two of the three groupings on Skylark's list are an overstatement of what Bush had any kind of exclusive control over. And the Katrina one seems particularly nutty. I suspect had it not been on the list, I wouldn't have flipped out, but my God, people it was a hurricane! W may be a powerful guy but he doesn't make the weather.
Congress is at least as much to blame for the social security issue that's been looming for a long time and I'm old enough to remember the first time Hillary tried to fix health care. It's fundamentally kind of goofy to lay it all on Bush. (And again, kind of fundamentally shortsighted of the Democrats to so since we all know he's out.)
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