adam wrote:

Though Bush may be viewed as a laughingstock, he won't have the zero-integrity factors that have kept Nixon and Harding at the bottom in the presidential sweepstakes. Oddly, the president whom Bush most reminds me of is Herbert Hoover, whose name is synonymous with failure to respond to the Great Depression. When the stock market collapsed, Hoover, for ideological reasons, did too little. When 9/11 happened, Bush did too much, attacking the wrong country at the wrong time for the wrong reasons. He has joined Hoover as a case study on how not to be president.

This is of course, wrong. What I expect to be found when all is said and done, the other things this administration has done behind its veil of secrecy will leave it damned beyond any measure save possibly the antipathy the Klan has for Lincoln freeing the slaves. If you don't believe that, let's go down the list we already know about.

The Cheney energy group, ignoring bin Laden pre 9/11, "Wanted Dead or Alive", "I don't really care where he is", where IS bin Laden? the botched war in Afghanistan that we could have won, the botched war in Iraq we should have never started, leaking a CIA operative, blowing the cover of an ENTIRE CIA GROUP in doing so, Katrina, Haliburton and Cheney, Tamiflu and Rummy, hell Rummy all by himself, John Bolton and the dismantling of the UN, "Coalition of the willing", Gitmo, Abu Ghraib and Bagram, habeus corpus, domestic spying, TSA, Homeland inSecurity, K Street, Jack Abramoff.

And that's off the top of my head. Every single one of those is a real problem. When everything shakes out of this, and it will, these bufoons will make Warren Harding and Richard Nixon look like saints.

RE: Move Over, Hoover - washingtonpost.com