"If incompetence were a criminal offense, he'd be behind bars":Bob Herbert

[kpete]

BOB HERBERT: Stuck With Bush

If George W. Bush could have been removed from office for being a bad president, he would have been sent back to his ranch a long time ago.

If incompetence were a criminal offense, he'd be behind bars.

But that's just daydreaming. The reality is that there are more than two and a half years left in the long dark night of the Bush presidency — nearly as long as the entire time John Kennedy was in office.

The nation seems, very belatedly, to be catching on to the tragic failures and monumental ineptitude of its president. Mr. Bush's poll numbers are abysmal. Republicans up for re-election are running from him as if he were the bogyman.

read the whole article:
http://jurassicpork.blogspot.com/2006/04/bob-herbert-stuck-with-bush.html

[fasttense]

1. He is not only inept but a crook as well. n/t

[Lindacooks]

2. If justice existed in the United States, he'd be behind bars.

He's already committed impeachable crimes, not to mention war crimes.

[necso]

3. I'm glad that Mr Herbert is back,

and up to his usual standard: solid, substantive, grave, vividly-and-grimly humorous ("vultures feasting in a field of carcasses"), and sadly telling of our times.

[ninkasi]

4. Great article

Bob Herbert has always been one of my favorite columnists. He's been warning us about Bush since day one.