From the Forum “Undoing Bush”

One way to know that George Bush is going to do something is for him to say he doesn’t believe in it. The most famous instance of this might be his long-professed disdain for “nation building,” but he also has strong disbeliefs about the courts. For instance, when Bush said in his first 2000 debate with Al Gore, “I don’t believe in liberal, activist judges,” we could fairly assume that Bush would like nothing more than to install liberal, activist judges until the end of time. And indeed, seven years later we can…