JUDGE: PRES. BUSH'S WIRETAP PROGRAM VIOLATES CONSTITUTION & MUST STOP

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Originally Posted by MaggieL

The fact is that three decades later, Bush is operating in a completely different environment: everything he does is under an intense level of hostile scrutiny, and it stands up extremely well compared to what Tricky Dick got away with without even thinking about it much (up to the point he was impeached, anyway) mostly because nobody was looking, or knew how to.

Why is everything that he does under an intense level of scrutiny? Maybe because he's burned his bridges with just about everyone imaginable (the press, the left, the ENTIRE WORLD, the general populace)? Do you think, just possibly, there's a reason why his poll numbers are in the toilet?
And frankly, you're criticism of his being under the microscope doesn't hold up for most of his tenure as president. How else was he able to get us into Iraq on extraordinarily feeble evidence? Or, for a more recent example, find a comparison on major news outlets on the time spent on JonBenet last week vs. Diggs-Taylor's ruling. I already have one, but you will probably dismiss it as biased, since TP is a lefty site.