But they have done so at a cost, and now, in debt, they continue to push even farther right. Combined with surprisingly ineffective foreign policy, this will be the downfall of Bush II.
Bush isn’t stupid, as some seem to believe—he’s just wrong. There is a difference, and though I understand that such an admission would leave Maureen Dowd with nothing to write about, critics must instead focus on the worst threat of the Bush administration: they’re doing all the wrong things, but boy, are they doing them well.
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Joshua I. Weiner ’03 is a government concentrator in Leverett House. His column appears regularly.