Somehow, I knew Bush would completely fall apart during his second term

[BlueStater]

Contrary to popular belief, Bush was never a talented politician. Just an extremely lucky one. As I recall, he was already going down during his first year in office before 9/11 happened. 9/11 was the best thing that ever happened to the Chimp. He now had the power to do anything and could silence frightened Americans by warning them of another 9/11. This essentially clinced his reelection albeit barely (he had the smallest reelection victory since Woodrow Wilson in 1916).

With the war in Iraq not getting any better (with Saddam and his sons gone, there really wasn't any more noticeable milestones the Chimperor could tout and he couldn't blame them for the violence anymore) and a country recovering from 9/11, he could not fool people for another four years. In early 2005, he was seen by many Americans as a tough-on-terrorism cowboy. Today, he is seen as a frightened, pathetic, desperate little man who is in his last throes.

Regardless of what happens the next two years, Bush's place in history is already written in stone. He'll go down as perhaps the most despised president ever and be remembered as a liar, a fraud, a corrupt bastard, a war criminal, and an all around bad guy.

If there is an consolation right now, it's the thought that he's currently as miserable as the rest of us.

[Ezlivin]

1. Perhaps your prescience was primed by his dismal performance during the first 4 years

But Bush is a spoiled brat who gets what he wants. He wanted to win in 2000. Got it. Wanted to win in 2004. Got it.

Now it's time to send that spoiled brat to prison for a long, long time.

[AnotherDreamWeaver]

2. and if we can't do it today, let's see it done tomorrow...

[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

3. Miserable?

I hardly think he's as miserable as the rest of us.

I doubt he will be miserable a single day in his entire life, I'm afraid. He's a spoiled little brat, and he'll probably leave office that way, and live the rest of his life as a spoiled little brat.

But I doubt that he cares much about anything beyond the success of himself and his friends, and unfortunately, he'll enjo that for the rest of his life.

[demrabble]

4. True, But I Am Afraid.

I totally agree with everything you say.

Except that I am afraid.

I have known people like * -- people of privilege who think that they are entitled to boss other people around. People who think that they are so much better than everyone else that they don't have to listen to or care about anything anybody else has to say.

And I know that those kinds of people, when cornered, do very bad things.

I think that * could do a repeat of 9/11 -- and kill many of us.

I think that the recent incidents where bombs and stuff were "found" was not accidental.

[nealmhughes]

5. Dub has to be the most miserable squanderer of capital, connection and education

that has ever been visited upon the face of the earth. Here is a guy, who in his youth was told he was "special" becuase his daddy and granddaddy were and granddaddy was special becuase he bought his son into Wall St. after making his fortune with Frick, et al. in the steel biz.
There is nothing special about him, save his inablility to face the truth about himself: an adult who behaves as a spoiled child on the playground, getting a redo on every swing that doesn't connect the bat to the ball. This is a guy who thought his military oath was a joke, who has the audacity to attack the integrity of anyone who disagrees with him, who cuts taxes in wartime, who trumps up a war that is so far only leading to anarchy in a nation and rattle sabres at two states at peace with the United States (Iran and Syria), who winks at Israel and hobnobs with the worst tyrants in the Middle East, his soi-disant "royal" buddies the al Sauds and the Kuwaiti's al Sabbah clans.
Someone who goes off to party with McCain and golf in San Diego when the head of the hurricane center warns him personally what the world saw: a hurricane stretching the entire length of the Gulf of Mexico from Mexico to well inland in the SE US.
Is he stupid? Mentally ill? Personality disorder? Just a spoiled brat who never once had the other kids he was bullying gang up on him and give him a busted lip, nose and two missing teeth?
I see little value in him as a person, little at all, and I try to see the good in everyone as a Christian, but I can't find it in him...no matter how hard I try.
The coddling should end now. It should have ended about 55 years ago, but he ain't too old to get a metaphorical playground ass-whooping, we can easily gang up on him, and ignoring him, save for denouncing him is the best way to get him his long overdue comeuppance.