He katrinaed the whole nation. And he still has another year to work his magic.

It would be funny it I were not living the consequences.

and see how much Bush talks about Iran as a threat. I wouldn't put it past this idiot to drum up an incident or two, maybe even a terrorist attack in order to help elect a Republican to succeed himself, to protect his legacy you know (or, to be sure his back is covered by a sympathetic GOP executive in the Oval Office).

The only reason I hope he will not try to suspend the election (because of terrorist crisis) is that I think he's sick of the job and he's ready to bail out, just as he's done with so many of his past jobs. Mess up, move up, and leave his mess for some unfortunate lesser person to clean up (in his opinion).

Yes, with Bush, whenever you think he can't mess up anymore, he surprises you.

The economy could be his parting gift, though. That worries me as much as attack on Iran.

except that everything he touches seems to go to hell..

last night.  It was a flashback episode to the 90s - The producers have abandoned the 1970s flashback storyline - done about 15 years ago - and are now placing the young Marge and Homer in the 90s.  At one point Marge is commenting to Homer that she can hardly wait to see the end of the Clinton presidency since the whole Monica incident makes him the worst president ever.  "Yeah, says Homer, we'll never see another President as bad as that."  "He lied under oath about an affair," says Marge, "you can't get worse than that."  Homer agrees.  

I have never subscribed to the point that one passes judgement on a sitting leader other than on policy that is. No one can ever know the true legacy and to say as much that one does is complete political arrogance. Politics is always in flux as are legacies. The current upheaval in the Party resulting from Bill Clinton's involvement lately is a testament to that. I even now have heard many long time Democrats begin to overly criticize his Presidency now after all these years solely based on some the perceived damage he is doing now in 2008. These folks adored him in the 90's.
My only experience with this so-called future-looking analysis leads me to my youthful experiences with Jimmy Carter. I remember parking the car with my father overnight in the gas lines and coming back the next morning to get gas. carter got hammered and blamed for just about everything from oil prices to the hostage crisis during that time and hadyou ask people about his legacy after losing to re-election it would have been bleak in 1980. Now? Carter for the most part has been elevated to very high diplomatic status and is adored by those who once tore his Presidency apart. Pure politics just like this and just like Clinton now.
If one admits being short sighted of course it appears as Bush legacy contributing to the conservative movement is questionable at best and aweful at its worst but lets revisit this in ten or twenty years as see what the real legacy is on America like say the Supreme Court and Iraq.
Unfortunately going into tonights State of the Union Bush may take the brunt of the economic criticism while Mr. Greenspan sits on the sidelines with royalties from his book acting like his hands are clean in all this current housing mess. Talk about revision, watch Greenspans legacy go down in flames by 2012 as economic historians see the impacts years removed of a man everyone seems to love.