President Takes Three Body Blows: Bolton Out, Rumsfeld Saves A Bullet For POTUS, And The Washington Post: Worst President Ever? He'll Drink to that!

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I'm sitting here chuckling over George Bush's day. If there was ever a time when The President thought of hitting the gargle again, it had to be today.

I don't usually blog "live" but this is just too good. I am in a hotel room in Newport Beach, California [1] watching Joe Scarborough on MSNBC, and reading feeds from various newspapers. Pat Buchanan just said "discipline in the White House has broken down," and "When they came for him, Rumsfeld saved the last bullet for The President."



First "someone" leaks the damaging--no, thermonuclear--Rumsfeld memo [2] directly contradicting Dubya's "stay the course" gibberish, and then he throws in the towel on John Bolton as U.N. Ambassador (he was appointed in a "recess appointment,"). Reuters said Bolton's resignation caught White House officials by surprise while they were "still searching for a way to keep him in his job." Bolton submitted his resignation Friday. Aides said Bush thought about it over the weekend before accepting. Of course, today The President unloaded on Democrats for blocking the appointment. As ever, he accepted no responsibility for appointing a skillful, but bellicose, partisan, and factionalizing delegate to the U.N.

And now, on the Scarborough Report, they are debating "Is George Bush the worst President ever?" Joe Scarborough's topic was suggested by the Washington Post Op Ed piece by Eric Foner "He's The Worst Ever."

I look forward to waking up to see just what The President has in store for us tomorrow! Is this what it's going to be like for the next two years, one month, two weeks, and six days he has left to salvage any facsimile of his laughable "legacy"? Is he on the precipice of becoming a historical laughing stock while he is still in office? Or, is that a fait accompli?
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[1] Not before I took a long walk on the beach and watched the sun set over the Pacific. After the last week in Seattle, it's kind of nice to be in t-shirt and shorts again!
[2] Needless to say, access to that memo was seriously restricted, ergo the leaker is Right Up There in The Administration. This document was classified.
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