President Petulant's Legacy

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As I view the unraveling of GI George and look at concurrent news stories, I can't help but wonder what the Bushies' legacy will be.

I mean, obviously, they've had an absolutely horrid tenure, but what they'll leave behind is what I'm thinking about.

To be sure, troops will still be in Iraq on January 20, 2009, but what else will still be around? The NCLB is about to become a shadow of its former self, and now we find that the vaunted USA PATRIOT Act also is in the process of being weakened. See here for an additional story.

So, we've got drastic changes coming in Feckless Leader's most important domestic legislation and his security legislation being overhauled. There's still quite a bit of hideous legislation left, but these alterations certainly run counter to the Bushies' policies. With the tax code almost certain to be changed in the next few years, there won't be many memories of the horrid first eight years of the US in the 21st century, thank God.

At any rate, I raise this because more and more it looks like the Bush administration will be a black hole in terms of American policy. (And our president looks more and more like the lamest of the lame ducks because of it.) I'm certainly not complaining—I wish that virtually all of the Bushies' policies were overturned—but Americans deserve some progress from their executive branch in eight years.