but here's my prediction. When things get truly horrible there are people who feel like cringing in a corner with their arms over their head (like me) and then there are people like John, who, the worse things get, the more pissed off and energetic they become. He's had a long vacation away from Washington, but my prediction is he will return, to borrow TayTay's phrase, in blazing
WRATH OF GOD mode.
The horrors of the past week, piled onto the Cindy Sheehan debacle (from Bush's perspective), piled onto the questions still unanswered about 9/11 have just stripped whatever tattered clothes remained on the emperor's body. Could it be any clearer how utterly naed he is??? (and sorry for the mental image there, but I'm trying to make a point.)
I think it was in one of the comments on Steve Gilliard's site - here - I found it:
I get the impression from watching Bush that he is bored of being Prez-nit now. His glorious Iraq war isn't going too well. Being "command in chief" and being a "war Prez-nit" is pretty much all he cares about. He doesn't understand that being President isn't just about prancing around in uniform, calling the shots and being "command in chief". Like a child, he craves adulation. That's all this Presidency means to him. He doesn't understand leadership. He doesn't understand the heavy burden of being President of the United States. He doesn't understand that he is responsible for the lives of real people. Katrina doesn't give him an opportunity to be a "War President" and to make threats against the evil-doer ragheads and feel like a big fucking man with empty words and threats like 9/11 did, so he couldn't give a flying fuck. Don't be fooled by his actions today - this is simply damage control. His aides know his lack of engagement looks bad so they rushed to do some damage control and make it looks like he cares. This President does not understand the suffering of the poor and the weak and the disinfranshised. He may say he does, but his words are hollow. His eyes tell a different story. His inappropriate smirks, grins and arrogant demeanour are proof enough that his words are insincere and just political theatre. It is all feigned concern. He is an empty shell of a man.
Look into his eyes - he is bored and listless and uninterested. He is simply going through the motions. Like a child, he's upset his 5 week vacation was ruined by Cindy Sheehan and now this hurricane. He's lost interest in the Presidency... he can't wait to get out of it and dump all the havoc he's created onto the sucker unfortunate enough to inherit the disasters, foreign and domestic, that he has created. That is George W. Bush's history - a fuck-up. A spoiled, rich, bratty-boy who fucked up one thing after another and never had to take responsibility for anything he did. He just walked away from every fuck-up in his life and had someone else clean it up. That will be the legacy of his glorious presidency.
There is just a total leadership vacuum right now, and that is what's freaking everyone out. The emperor is naked, and the line of succession is nothing but one naked emperor after another.
I have no doubt about what Kerry and the dem leadership will be feeling - the big question is what will they be
able to do??