The Legacy, cont'd

MANIFESTO

According to some, President Prevaricator's tenure was effectively over in 2005.

"Katrina to me was the tipping point," said Matthew Dowd, Bush's pollster and chief strategist for the 2004 presidential campaign. "The president broke his bond with the public. Once that bond was broken, he no longer had the capacity to talk to the American public. State of the Union addresses? It didn't matter. Legislative initiatives? It didn't matter. P.R.? It didn't matter. Travel? It didn't matter."

This may be true, although I certainly think our feckless leader had "broke[n] his bond with the public" on myriad occasions prior to that deadly episode. Katrina was perhaps the most dramatic sign up to that point in time that the decider-in-chief—and his coterie—were incompetent beyond comprehension.

Bottom line: Katrina made it abundantly clear that XLIII et alia cared not a hoot for the American public.