I recall one of Bush’s big speeches before the congress –was it the 2nd Inaugural? –when his lament that his inability to have made any progress with fiscal repair of the big entitlement bust headed our way in the near future, was greeted by the entire left side of the chamber leaping to its feet and cheering –not the president’s apology but his failure on reform. This is what the man C4 calls a failure was up against, and why he tried perhaps too hard to grow the economy to where it could have any chance at all of continuing to service the demands of its DC blue-sky master utopians.