Grade the Bush Presidency - on all issues

[DanielX]

C-. Sounds bad, until you realize the only President in the last 50 years to get so much as a B+ would be Reagan. Carter would, for instance, be a D-, while Ford and Kennedy are C's, Bush Sr. a C-, Nixon and Johnson both Ds, and Eisenhower a B-. No President, save perhaps Washington, would get an A. I guess I'm a tough grader...

Individual grades:

Education: C-; Bush is actually trying to get the Feds in MORE.

Healthcare: D; No medicare reform, but strap an expensive prescription-drug bill? Need i say, 'oink'?

War on Terror: B-, curved to a B+: he can do better, but I curved the grade because no senior politician on either party is willing to do so - or perhaps they can't figure out how.

Border: D-. Almost everyone in DC, Bush included, is sound asleep.

Deficit: C-. Bush isn't controlling the bipartisan pig fest that is Congress. Doesn't help that he lacks line-item veto power, but still.....

Economy: C+. Bush has made some good strides in this area, but he's also made his share of gaffes. And he isn't going to control spending, so he can't cut taxes further.