And here's another reason you can mock liberals who bash Bush's economic record. OUr eocnomy is about as good as it could possibly be, and moving along better than at almost any other time in U.S. history, this despite Katrina and Iraq and oil problems. And this time there's no tech bubble causing illusions. What is different? Maybe those tax cuts that werre supposed to destroy the world. They did what we were told they would do, they helped to fund growth and expansion of businesses, new rounds of hiring, and lowered costs all around.