Bush is no compassionate man

I read this CNN article this morning and this paragraph caught my eye:

Among successes the White House claims in 2005: A bankruptcy law that made it harder for Americans to wipe out their debts, legislation to discourage multimillion-dollar class-action lawsuits and confirmation of John Roberts as chief justice of the United States. Bush also won a free trade pact with six Latin American countries. There was a highway bill, at last, to modernize the transportation network. He also got major energy legislation -- the first such national plan in more than a decade -- although the act does little in the near-term to ease gas prices, which topped $3 a gallon after the hurricane.

So, let's analyze the self-titled compassionate-conservative Bush's successes:

• he was able to get through Congress a bill that makes it much harder for ordinary Americans to declare bankruptcy in order to start over when you're swamped by debt (for example with a hospital, after a grave illness for which you had no insurance to pay,) while corporations can still declare bankruptcy to get out of their commitments to their customers;


• he was able to get through Congress a bill that makes it much harder for ordinary Americans to sue multimillion dollar corporations in so-called class-action lawsuits in order to hold them accountable for their misdeeds (for example when such companies hide the evidence that their product causes cancer or death;)


• he was able to get through Congress a highway bill that was so full of pork, it dripped fat all over the place (this after he pledged not to sign anything that showed any sign of pork at all;)


• he was able to get through Congress an energy bill that doesn't help ordinary Americans or the environment, but only his fat friends in the oil industry.

Now, tell me again, how are we supposed to consider these as successes??

Successes for whom? Certainly not the American people, who gave the moron his job.