Originally posted on 11/07/2012:
The fact that you can you honestly say this, yet not bring up the fact that the trillion dollar Iraq and Afghan wars were started with no plan to pay for them speaks volumes.
Bush was re-elected with 286 electoral votes and 50.7% of the vote in 2004You don't make wholesale changes because an incumbent president is re-elected with 50.2% of the popular vote.
"I earned capital in this campaign, political capital, and now I intend to spend it," Bush told reporters. "It is my style."