Bush Legislative Tally, Best Since Johnson's, Hurts in Polls

[Nicholas_J]

Aug. 30 (Bloomberg) -- No president since Lyndon Johnson has had a higher proportion of his proposals passed by Congress than George W. Bush. Bush cut taxes by $1.7 trillion, established a prescription-drug plan for seniors and enacted the first law that makes schools raise standards or face sanctions.

Yet what Paul Light of the Brookings Institution says is an 88 percent success rate for Bush on key legislation may cost him votes. As the president prepares to accept his party's nomination at the Republican National Convention that starts in New York today, the programs are coming under attack by the very groups that were supposed to benefit from them. Like fellow Texan Johnson, Bush also must confront a war that overshadows his domestic record.

``A lot of the big things he said he would do he did, for good or ill,'' said Allan Lichtman, 57, a presidential historian at American University in Washington. ``There's a good argument to say it's for ill, or this election wouldn't be so close.''

The tax cuts didn't generate the 6 million jobs Bush promised; 1.1 million jobs were lost instead. Bush trails Democratic candidate John Kerry 55 percent to 39 percent on who would better create employment, according to a Time Magazine poll

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[Inland]

1. Sucess on votes. Failure on policy.

Bush got his way and now all his idiot policies are law. I guess all you have to do is confuse Bush's personal victories with the national good. Which he and his dupe backers are happy to do.

[WI_DEM]

2. unfortunately the congresses under Bush

have been puppets.