President Bush's legacy

It's scandal after scandal which aggravates the Bush Administration's last golden hours and miniscules their grandiose attempt at leaving behind a legacy of conservative imprint in all branches of government. If we go back almost six years ago we have a list for your consideration: the Terri Schiavo case, the US Supreme Court nominee fiasco, the Iraq invasion, the mismanagement of the war on terror, the poor accountability of funds in the first year of the war, the suspicious contracting to big corporations, Hurricane Katrina, the 'remake' of his staff, the ousting of a CIA covert agent, the firing of US prosecutors, and the list goes on. But historians will ultimately judge Bush's presidency based on his leadership through two tragedies — the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks and Hurricane Katrina, plus a conflict of his own design: The war in Iraq.

Unfortunately, Americans have a very poor memory, and when the time comes, Bush junior will be remembered with a condenscending grim and we will all struggle to remember the shame and incompetence which brought this country to the back of the line. Just like Bush seems to have lost the capacity of connecting with an anxious public (his ratings have been in the 30's% for many years now), so will we have lost the capacity of connecting his failures with his blundering presidency.