But the president says health care costs have put the federal budget on a "disastrous path."

VOA: special.2009.05.15

"We are on such a disastrous path with public education that we need to pursue every opportunity for real improvement, " said Mr. Harrington, who sends his children to private school.

WSJ: Segregation Fear Sinks Charter School

The establishment embraced Mr Bush because he seemed to promise an easy chance of rehabilitating itself after a disastrous few years when it had been outfoxed by Bill Clinton and led up the garden path by Newt Gingrich.

ECONOMIST: An elephant never forgives (they say)