He ruined the country in an overzealous effort to prove that, indeed, government is not the answer.

I think he just looked at the country as his personal cookie jar and he could share the cookies w/ his friends and everything would be fine and he'd go off and have a nice life...BUT, he gave away all the cookies and now there is nothing left..oh, well...someone else's problem!

I believe totally that it was intentional.

I go back to the letter Dwight Eisenhower wrote to his grandson in which he said all those years ago that there was a group of wealthy people, mostly Texas oil men, who were determined to roll back the New Deal. I think this was planned when FDR was still in office.

I honestly do. They meant to undo everything FDR did and they pretty much have and that's why we're ruined. FDR saved our financial systems and saved the country with regulations that the rich have hated for over 50 years.

He ruined it because "presidenting is hard!"

Seriously, Bush has been flying in the face of a mountain of evidence provided by the Peter Principle.

He ruined it because he doesn't know any better.
He's been following Reagan's anti-government philosophy. Republicans have been following it these past 28 years. Even Bill Clinton went along during his presidency. Bush, however, has been the most aggressive Reagan anti-government zealot.

Bush has taken it on faith that Reagan was right. Most Republicans do. Because of their idolized attachment to the personality of the man, Republicans assume without question and in the face of contrary evidence, that Reagan's governing philosophies to be correct.

Right now, we see Republicans trying to blame this Wall Street fiasco on the poor or, on liberals, on anyone, on anything, other than Reagan's anti-government conservatism. They are the party of zealots.

Remember, kill the beast. If the government is so in deficit it will be able to bail on social security and medicare. It was intentional but over done.

According to John Oliver on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, it's not so Bush will be the worst president ever, it's so he'll be the last president ever.

This should not be much of a question. Wolfowitz et al have written plenty of papers in the 1990's about how to finally contract government: break it until until you simple have it sink under it's own weight.

The information is easily out there, here is just an example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century

Now, let's dispel the notion that this is based on wealth. That would be easy to deal with. This is based on ideology. How do we know? Because the NeoCons tell us.

That's why it's more scary. It's based on the idea of making America completely dominant in the world. It's based on *patriotic reasons*.

That's why they are are so committed to their ideals. They, like all radicals, honestly believe they are doing the best for the country.
Now the left doesn't understand this last point. But they should. Because until you understand the other side, you can't deal with them.

Now GWB surrounds himself with these people -- well, what do you think is going to happen?

Okay, that's the first reason he broke the country, it was intentional.

The second reason? He wanted to keep his track record intact. He's broken nearly everything he's touched.