The attacks of September 11 were devastating, but the destruction would have been far worse if the terrorists had used weapons of mass destruction,
He's even trotted out the old term 'misery index.' The problem is that by Senator Kerry's definition, things got better during the Carter years, and then got worse during the Reagan-Bush years.
The reason we are not much worse off from an economic standpoint is because of the tax cut. That the president's tax cut was approved by the Congress has been the best-timed dose of fiscal medicine the economy has ever received,