What is the point? Bush with 2.5 years to go.

Waiting for the Rove indictment or all clear is like waiting for a pension check from the Bolivian government at this point. But it does have me thinking. What is the point of this presidency any more? Sneaking out of Texas in the dead of night in early 2005 to "save" Ms. Shiavo kicked off the "end of the Bush era". Even Rove didn't see it at the time. But it was one bad political move. Really bad. And since it seems self -evident at this point that W hardly makes a move that it not about politics - no, it was not because he believed in "life". The Bush/Shiavo nightmare was all politics from W's end. Frist proved it. Rove's ear went tin in an instant. The other important plot points in W's demise in the last 14 months: Katrina and Dubai. Between were the ongoing B plots of Iraq, Plame, and Social Security "reform" - with interesting audience participation on domestic wiretaps to add juice. (I am convinced that the real problem W faces with collecting phone records is not Americans' unease about the government doing it - it is unease about a government full of imbeciles and twerps doing it.)

Nothing has gone right politically for the W brigade since the last Iraqi election.

The GOP "leadership" looks strikingly similar to the Democratic "leadership" in D.C. Bad idea followed by bad press conference followed by running from bad idea.

What is the point of this presidency? Successful 2 termers have either large animating ideas or enormous political skills, or both. Bush has neither. The neo-con bullshit was not an animating idea. It was an excuse with consequences. Afghanistan should have worked but it looks like a failure as well. The rest of the Bush "accomplishments" are budget busting fiascos. The era of pretend Big Government is over.
And yet - this man, with or without his brain, will remain in office for 2 1/2 more years.
What is the point? President Hastert could hardly be worse.