A few months ago one of the big stories was that the dollar was falling in value and it's yet another sign of the apocalypse and that Bush's economic policies are driving us to ruin. People with reasoning ability and lacking a hatred of Bush that makes them irrational realized that much of the dollars problem was China's policy of pegging their exchange rates based on the dollar. Well it turns out that the dollar has risen in value each of the last few months, putting to rest talk about Bush bad policies. In fact, by any sort of marker, the economy is going great in any areas that Bush's policies might affect things. Oil, however, is going to cause some problems if it keeps rising. Since Bush has no way to control those prices, you can hardly blame him for it. All he's tried to do in that regard is drill for our own oil, and the left reacted with fierce antagonism (big surprise), and up R&D expenditures for alternative fuels. I don't know what else he could be expected to do. But at any rate, the economy is chugging along. Historically low unemployment rates that are far less than what most of Europe is saddled with, high home ownership, a dollar rising in value, the deficit shrinking, tax revenues WAY up, mostly because of the tax cuts that were the end of the world according to the left. In fact just about everything that the left said about the economy and Bush's economic policies turned out to be exactly wrong.