Long Time

It's been a very long time since my last post, and I understand from a recent Yahoo news article that blogging is plummeting. I guess I suffer from the same disease as other aspirational bloggers, I've got other things to do. That said, I'll keep hacking away. Better to try and do something, rather than give up and do nothing.

One comment on President Bush and his presidency. As a guy who voted for him, twice, and one of the more than 60 million Americans of whom the media asked, "How could so many Americans be so dumb?," I have to say that I am disappointed by how his presidency has turned out. And it wasn't Iraq. I don't think he lied about it. I think he went with the information that he had, like everyone else. It was Katrina. The incompetence around how those people in New Orleans were treated. It was the spending spending spending under his watch. Where was the fiscal responsibility that we expect from a conservative? He delivered two great judges in Alito and Roberts, but it was close. And the issues around Alberto Gonzalez, even though that was more about making sure he was tarnished and could never by nominated as the first Hispanic Supreme Court Justice, were still embarrassing. I still like him personally, and appreciate his direct style. But I'm disappointed that we didn't see compassionate conservatism, partnering with churches, really gain momentum. Or the Republican Party effectively reach out to Hispanic voters in the way it is capable of and should have. History will no doubt have a better view of him than the current popular assessment, because they will see him in the larger context of the war between Islamic fascism and the West, but that assessment is far in the future.