Legacy in a Nutshell


Posted by Bruno on July 2nd, 2007

Yglesias explains rather succinctly:

It’s also true that for a two term president who enjoyed GOP congressional control for several years, he really does have remarkably few legislative accomplishments. Where other leaders would have seen an opportunity to push a governing agenda, Bush saw an opportunity to evade congressional oversight as he used the executive branch to commit crimes against the constitution, fill many executive agencies with incompetents, and fill others with people who helped his campaigns’ financial backers rob the public. Which leads us to what’s probably the most important aspect of Bush’s non-Iraq legacy, his decision to provide an elegant demonstration of public choice theory and destroy public faith in the possibility of government action by showing exactly how poorly a government can be run.

I think that last one is what they call a “feature, not a bug.”


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