[acindrich]

And sadly for many conservatives Bush's policies doomed the Republican party to second place in the election. I too am not enamored with all aspects of the current administration and I too believe that there is blame to be laid on many politicians (the fair housing act likely being the foundation for widespread leveraging and profiteering by lenders and citizens alike that was a seed to "the perfect storm") But one cannot overlook the role of the President to see these problems and attempt to fix them before they become catastrophic. Wasn't that fair housing act put in place under the Clinton administration? If so, shame on that adminstration. And Bush had years to ward off the results. I get a sense he was a bit distracted with a little skirmish in Iraq. If Bush had had more success or could have shown more capability in steering our country more than other countries I think there could be a conservative in the White House right now. But apparently that is not what average Americans perceived from the Republican party. So, they chose the opposite. Again, sadly, this perfect storm of economic woes came at the tail end of eight years of a Bush presidency. Surely not all of that was carryover from the previous administration. I hope for the best for the country and have one very high expectation of the new administration.

Challenging us as a nation as Kennedy did to "put a man on the moon before the end of the decade" with a new challenge - to stop our dependence on foreign sources of energy. I'd be grateful to see the end to a need for fossil fuel with one exception.

I want enough to fuel my gashole Cobra.