Calpundit comments, echoing a Times editorial, that

I can't think of a single major policy initiative he's taken that compares, say, to Bill Clinton's healthcare plan: something that he believes in so deeply that it's worth pushing for even though it runs the risk of being unpopular. This is one of the key differences between Bush and Tony Blair, for example.

Now that's unfair. I can think of one -- a tax policy that combines deep tax cuts massively stacked in favor of the already rich, with new enforcement efforts targeted directly at the poor...