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To: Elroy who wrote (223449)	3/11/2005 8:31:29 AM
From: SilentZ	Respond to of 1576830

>Knowing virtually none of the details, I do have the impression that he did well as Governor of Texas..... Hoo boy, I can't wait till CJ responds to this one... -Z

To: Elroy who wrote (223449)	3/11/2005 8:40:46 AM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 1576830

"....but I'm not going to go to bat for him." That is wise. His PR machine has been pretty awesome. Realize that the Governor of Texas is a fairly weak position. The most powerful position is Lt. Governor. Mostly the governor has a line item veto and direct access to the Legislature and the press. As Guv, Junior spent most of his time jogging. Ok, does this sound anything like familiar? We went from a more than billion dollar surplus to painful cuts in services in just a couple of years. And Texas isn't a state where here are a lot of state services, mostly it revolves around education. We got property tax cuts and there was no fiscal discipline. He did talk a good game on education, but all he really did was push some ideas that resulted in increasing the amount of standardized testing. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but... Now Texas isn't a state where the Democrats and Republicans differ all that much. So it isn't like getting the two to work together was something unusual. But some of the bipartisanship that Dubya crowed about in his first campaign was when the Republicans and Democrats joined together to override his vetoes. Like on the Child Health Insurance Program, which Smirk opposed, yet held that up as an example of how he promoted bipartisanship while governor. It was literally true... In summary, he probably wasn't the worst governor ever to grace the office, "Flip Flop Dolph" probably aced him in recent years. But his tenure was far from stellar. I suppose if you look at if from the stand point of his failures as a businessman, he did better than expected. But that is about it.