Bush's Speech Tonight at 8 pm

As predicted, Hillary Clinton was confirmed as Secretary of State with only one dissenting vote. Today the nominee for Attorney General, Eric Holder, is undergoing his hazing ritual. His biggest mistakes were supporting some of President Clinton's pardons, most notably Mark Rich. He also has declared that waterboarding is torture and that Guantanamo will be closed, though it will take longer than originally planned. He should be confirmed, also. I'm waiting for Leon Panetta's hearing, to see if the intelligence community shows any intelligence or not. It may be whining at its best from the CIA...

An appellate court ruling has upheld that warrantless wiretapping as practiced by the Bush administration to be legal.

According to the Christian Science Monitor, there have been five ways that the Bush administration has changed the world: 

Unfortunately, number one was the Iraq war. Notice that the following may be considered in both positive or negative light, depending on how world situations develop. 

" Foreign-policy and national-security experts cite four other top issues on which Bush administration decisions are likely to have an impact in coming years – and that will contribute to his legacy.

•The war on terror as the US response to the 9/11 attacks.

•An inability to clamp the lid on the nuclear ambitions of North Korea and Iran.

•The initiative to combat HIV/AIDS in Africa and a shift in US foreign aid toward performance-based assistance."

•Improved US relations with two other big powers – China and India – and testier relations with a third, Russia."

I know that George Bush is trying as hard as he can to bolster public opinion about himself and his administration over the past eight years, but he only has himself to blame. Although he has tried to project an image of being a simple, brush clearing decider, he has never been "one of the people," being insulated his whole life by his father and friends of his father. Every speech, every rally, every public outing was carefully choreographed to only include supporters. It was all artiface and he came to believe those crafted lies, while people got tired of being treated with casual contempt.

Tonight he will give his going away speech, I wonder what phrases will be picked for drinking games. Many folks will watch to see if he blows it and gets angry, but that only would happen if questions from the public were allowed. He will try to get back some self-respect and convince us that he did the right things in response to 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, that it wasn't his fault for any of the economic crisis. He'd like to pull a rabbit out of his hat, but neither Rocket J Squirrel nor Osama bin Laden would oblige.