President Bush has been president for 30 days now, and the honeymoon is over.It’s time to take a step back and see how well Bush has done as president so far. And the answer is … not bad.Bush’s approval ratings have shot up since entering office.He’s managed to get his Cabinet approved by the Senate amazingly quickly.He so far has been keeping his campaign promises, submitting to Congress the exact tax scheme he ran on. Bush has also taken steps to show he’s a “uniter, not a divider” — such as inviting Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., and his family over to the White House to watch the movie “Thirteen Days,” about the Cuban Missile Crisis. Most people have gotten over their anger about the 2000 election and accepted Bush as their president. While the nation’s secretaries of state have fortunately not forgotten the Florida chaos and are working to modernize our voting systems, only a few extremists are still questioning Bush’s legitimacy.However, Bush hasn’t managed to avoid controversy over some questionable actions he’s taken in the past month. The first move Bush made upon entering office was to cut aid to clinics that perform abortions overseas. He’s also pushing hard for missile defense, a program that violates the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty of 1972.Bush’s initiative to give federal funding to religious organizations for social programs is an interesting idea — as long as it is regulated so the government is funding only the church’s soup kitchens and not its Bibles.Facing a public with rock-bottom expectations, however, Bush has done remarkably well in his honeymoon month.editorialboard: Carrie Tett, Greg Jerrett, Katie Goldsmith, Andrea Hauser and Jocelyn Marcus