Actually Bush's medical deal was a total give away that will greatly add to the debt every year. There was no attempt to pay for anything, that's only expected of democratic presidents during recessions silly.
As for the wars, reallistically no we couldn't just pull out those countries now that we're there. What would have been nice though is if there had been some plan beyond getting there and hanging the mission accomplished signs.
The partisan lies in this post are almost beyond the ability to count.
You mean the prescription drug plan Bush signed with Ted Kennedy and the Democrats? The one that at the time was considered a model of bipartisanship? The same one that at turns Democrats claim as their achievement, or when they are trying to spin it negatively, spin as "Bush's prescription plan" and deny their heavy involvement in it?
How infuriatingly deceitful of the Left.
The reason Bush spent more on domestic programs than on homeland security and wars, is
precisely because of Bush's efforts to work with Democrats and acquiesce to Democrat pork and massive social programs. For which biartisanship Bush was still demonized anyway as a "right wing extremist".
Bush also only had majorities of a few votes in the House and Senate for part of his presidency. And even when Bush had majorities, they were small enough that there's no way he could have passed legislation without the full cooperation of the Democrats, for which they tried to manufacture feeble plausible deniability later (and there's no better example than the vote to go to war in Iraq).
