Why Bush is no friend of the free market

...and why protectionist trade measures inevitably backfire, doing more harm than good. It's almost frightening to see how many billions of dollars and countless jobs America has lost because the president or some Congress-critter wants to buy a few more votes. To say nothing of the ongoing total destruction of any semblance of US credibility in the world.

The US gov't simply is not acting in the best interests of the country or people it rules over. What, then, are we to do about it?