It seems pretty clear by now that Bush has some kind of narcissistic personality disorder, characterized by, among other things, a pathological inability to admit fault of any kind, ever. He's been this way since he was an adolescent, if that prescient Vanity Fair article in 1999 or 2000 was any indication.

So, seems to me that unless he is impeached and convicted and thrown from office, there is no way our troops are leaving there until his presidency is over. Period. All the rest of this is just static. Camouflage for a president's psychological problems.

I'd sure like to hear what GOP House and Senate members say to each other behind closed doors, off-the-record. They have to be very nervous. Bush is a psycho, plain and simple. He's been one all his life, he's completely consistent. The GOP members in Congress probably realized this a long time ago, and they're just hoping against hope that they can deceive enough people at the right time to keep from being run out of Washington on a rail. To judge by past events, they might just pull it off.

I hope not, because clinical narcissists and their enablers are ALL very dangerous people, and they shouldn't be hired to pick up trash alongside a highway, let alone to run a country.

...but, Glenn, you do not address the possibility, made by a number of posters, that GW Bush is psychologically disturbed. That we have, in essence, a crazy man running the country.

If you judge purely by his actions, GW Bush not only subscribes to a manichean view of the Universe, he also displays many symptoms of a deeply disturbed person, in a strict clinical sense.

Follow his entire career and you find a man who cannot admit error, who cannot tolerate ambiguity, nor dissent from his views. Period. None.

It is true that his manichean world-view, and that world-view as aped by the rest of the GOP, has caused enormous harm. But it is also worth considering just where this craziness originated. Partly, from the authoritarian mindset of the corporate wing of the GOP, but also straight out of the mind of GW Bush, who--again, based purely on his actions--shows all the signs of someone with constantly worsening narcissistic personality disorder.

Hitler probably had it...many nut-case leaders have probably had it. People with this kind of clinical problem are extremely dangerous, and shouldn't be allowed anywhere near the levers of power in any setting.

I'm not proposing this situation is simple. It's clearly anything but simple. But the distinct possibility that a clinically disturbed man was appointed to office by the SCOTUS for purely political reasons, and then cheated his way to office by constant lying and voter suppression in several states, and that his psychological problems have resulted in the deaths of untold thousands of people...that possiblity should be thoroughly explored, whatever else GW Bush's motivations may be.

By the way, the constant, routine lying of the Administration is a commonplace symptom of certain kinds of personality disorders. People like GW Bush would RATHER lie than tell the truth. Just because.

...of your own sins. That's the essence of the GOP right-wing strategy. So far, it's worked pretty well, because the American voter, by-and-large, is woefully ignorant about nearly everything they should be informed about.

People like Thompson, and the rest of the GOP candidates, and the entire party, will continue this pathetically dishonest tactic as long as it works: smear your enemies with your own evils. And hope no-one notices.

...is the asshole who should be impeached, for his utterly unamerican views on this question.

Indict Jack Bauer? Damn straight. In the real world, we'd do exactly that.

How it is that Scalia can sign on to an "ends justify the means" philosophy and still look himself in the mirror every day is a mystery to me. Take on the qualities of the demon, and you are a demon yourself, whatever "good" you were trying to do.

Scalia is a collossal asshole. Has been from the moment he took the bench. He no more belongs on that court than Wilhelm Stuckert would belong there.

He's contemptible...like so many others in his jackbooted party.

...I have been truly amazed at the transparent dishonesty of various people at Justice, when testifying to Congress. It appears that they, and everyone in the Bush Administration, have decided to use the "who do you believe, me, or your lying eyes?" defense.

Amazing. It's like listening to a bunch of six-year-olds defending themselves against burning down the house.

I know that the chief reasons Bush will never be impeached have little to do with the Vice-President...but, man, can you imagine Cheney as President? What a nightmare. You think GW's bad. Cheney is a mutant freak.

The question I have: how much more damage will he do in 18 months. I'm sure he can do plenty.

Joe, I can answer the question in your last line.

In a word? No.

Check his record, going back to his businessman days. He's an opportunistic shark. He didn't get that rich having principles. He has none. He's a classic Alpha. Domination is all.

...to find another Guantanamo. Cheney will allow Guantanamo to close, purely for PR reasons, only if some other location, outside US legal jurisdiction, can be found. That might be what they're waiting for...another location.

I'm having real trouble finding another example in US political history of a man as purely evil as Dick Cheney. I'm sure he feels he's doing "the right thing." don't all evil people feel that way?

Anyone have any other candidates for worst man in US politics since the founding?