so much for his imagine capital. Even Commander Cuckoo-Bananas has to be seeing through the fog that he is the lamest of ducks.

The question is when does he get the hell out of Dodge and let somebody try to fix the stinkin' mess he's left as his L-E-G-A-C-Y?

Sooner the better, Dubbya. Monday would be nice.

I love lame duck presidencies. They try to foul the water, but someone stands 'em up and tells 'em to pull up their shorts. A pat on the rear and they toddle back into the oval office to pout.

The government that governs best is the one that governs least.

But some of those gifts yesterday from the Supreme Court had to make him feel good. I mean, manufacturers and retailers can now collude on a minimum pricing? Yikes.

Desegregation is so racist... get rid of it! Wowzers.

Free speech? Maybe if you're rich. Just don't scrawl "bong hits 4 Jesus" at school.

Remember, it's not just Bush - it's the crony army he's got at his command too. They won't stop just because polls look bad. Haven't before, won't now.

He also just got a nice little rhetorical gift in the 2 London car bombs. And according to Seymour Hersh, bombing Iran is still the Bush/Cheney wet dream. So lame duck or not, don't expect (t)him to start acting like it.

"That government is best which governs least." (to be succinct and true to the original)

You know, I never agreed with that phrase until W got into office. The less he does, the better. He'd govern best if he didn't govern at all (and left the governing to someone outside his administration).

Laissez-faire? More like "sans W," but let's not split hairs.

Instead of fighting over subpoenas and how to end the war, the few wise men left in the GOP and some Democrats should approach Bush (sans Dick) and negotiate an end to this horror show of a presidency.

Pay the Imbecile in Chief and Darth Cheney $1 Billion each (no taxes) and have them resign now. No pardons from President Pelosi until we have a full accounting of just what terrible things they did that we don't know about yet. And those things are there. Just like Nixon, it's the stuff we haven't learned about yet that will truly shock us. Maybe they sold the National Parks to pay for the war. Maybe they made a deal with Osama - we won't kill you if there are no more attacks within the US during the Bush years.

It is time to end this 6-year agony and get these two evil men and their minions out of the government.

One day before Bush43 is supposed to leave office, suppose a "national emergency" were to occur. Well, he'd just HAVE to remain in office, now, wouldn't he? One more false-flag "terror" operation and Bush43 can assume de facto dictatorial powers.

Rat in a drain ditch / caught on a limb

You know better but I know him

I can't help it. This fills me with glee and I don't care who knows it.

Since when was George Bush ever the president in anything but name? It's Dick Cheney who has 570 days to go and I have a bad feeling he isn't quite done yet.

The government that governs best is the one that governs least.

Yes, that worked out so well in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, didn't it?

But as for this, DF of MN:

He'd govern best if he didn't govern at all

That's the whole problem -- he doesn't govern at all. What his administration has been doing the last 6-1/2 years is running a political operation. Playing politics is not the same thing as governing. Bill Clinton, for all his faults, knew the difference, and he happened to be very good at both.

It's nice that we all get to say Bush had a "bad week." You miss the point. He will likely have 81 more "bad weeks". These guys do whatever they want and, give them credit, they have absolutely no shame -- good week or bad week. They simply don't care. They treat Congress like it's their crazy uncle in the basement and just keep on keeping on. Unfortunately there are just enough spineless Democrats in the house and fearful moderates Rs in the Senate to allow the administration to keep doing whatever Chaney wants it to do. Dems couldn't even enforce party discipline on a symbolic vote to defund Chaney.

It doesn't matter that he had a bad week. He's had a bad 7 years and nothing changes, nothing happens. He can screw up anything he wants and there are no repercussions for his actions. And what the hell are the democrats doing about it? Are they growing a collective spine from stem cells?

So, who cares that he has 570 days to go. Does anyone honestly think the rest of his tenure will be anything but disastrous?

And as we continue to allow this mess, so must we bear the burden.

Dubya's residence in the White House may have 570 days left, but his Presidency will continue to injure Americans as long as the conservatist idealogues he has placed on the bench remain there.

This is what the nitwits who supported Nader because they thought there was no difference between Gore and Dubya were missing (or ignoring) - Gore would never in a million years have appointed an Alito.

Like undiagnosed syphilis, Federal Judiciary conservatists, appointed for life, are the gift that keeps on giving.

Somebody needs to go back to KOS. You know, Democrats only, liberals need not apply...

May I remind everyone of the word of the great sage, Yogi Berra: "It ain't over 'til its over."

I think Dubbya winning in 2004 may have been a gift in disguise.

By then they'd done their worst after 9/11 with the patriot act invaded Afghanistan and Iraq. I'm sorry for New Orleans of course, but in terms of most of the damage most of that was done in the 1st term. If Bush had lost and Kerry won, Kerry would have been a one term president with Republicans poised to bounce back immediately. In any case what a poisoned chalice awaited Kerry in 2004 + let's be fair, Kerry was and is and idiot.

Bush has had to eat his own dog food since 2004 with no-one (individual or political party) he can credibly blame. Adolph Guliani is trying to blame Clinton for 9/11 but this tactic apart from being utterly shameless isn't really gaining much traction except perhaps for the extreme assholes on the right who actually believe it, and they're not really managing to convince that many people.

So just to re-iterate, although it bummed me out for a whole week at the time, looking back, I'm glad he won in 2004. By 2008 he should have wreaked enough damage on his party that we can all wave bye-bye to the facist-lite coalition that they've been lovingly crafting for us of late.

More seriously I'm aware of the years of very serious harm he's done to your country, but I fear that if he'd only hung around for 4 years only, many people wouldn't have truly seen him and his movement for what they were. Some things have to run their course. Hitler wouldn't get the hint and ended up shooting himself in the head, of course chimp-boy is too much of a coward (a trait he shares with Saddam ironically, he asked one of his lieutenants to shoot him if he was caught by Iranians at the front during the Iraq-Iran war) for that, but he is metaphorically immolating himself. His whole life has been one long cry for help and now whole swathes of the country can see this clearly.