Couldn’t this same thing had been said about President Clinton from 1995-2001? Didn’t he just sign bills passed by a Republican congress, then take all the credit for how swell the country was doing?
What’s the diff?
Um… not totally, no. Some bills start as plans or initiatives created by the President (or his people), and are passed by Congress. So sometimes the credit should go to the President. This doesn’t seem to be one of those cases, as Bush didn’t come up with this idea - as a matter of fact, I’m pretty sure it existed before he was elected, since Missouri (for one) has had a no-call list for several years - thus, he wouldn’t really deserve credit for it if he was trying to take it.
Just like I said, yesterday, in this thread (scroll up!).
Oddly enough, my first reaction to this was a strong reluctance to register anything with the government, for good or bad. It reminds me of spam where you email back asking to get off their list and they use it to confirm that the address is good. That list could be misused.
A better idea is to outlaw telemarketing altogether. It would wipe out a lot of jobs, but frankly they’re crappy, honorless jobs that waste manpower that a real industry could be using.
Maybe this is why I don’t have a land line and the phone company insists someone else lives here.
Eh. I would have predicted W to take the “less interference from gov’t” stance regardless of popular opinion, so I’m giving him a bit of credit on these one.
He’s still nowhere near in the category that I’d vote for him, but credit where credit is due.