George W. Bush and the Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Week

It's been a bad week at 1600 Pennsylvania. Since the 2006 election, the Republican Party and President Bush in particular has been in a political "flat spin" unable to regain control of a news cycle that is rapidly descending through "negative" past "dismal" and on its way to "catastrophic." If there were even the slightest doubts that the Bush Presidency will be remembered as the "miserable failure" of Neo-Consertivism run amuck, they have surely evaporated by now.

Caught in a "political perfect storm" the Bush Administration is now weathering the consequences of six years of hard-right politics, short-sighted policies, and moral ambiguity. Yet Congressional interest in hard-hitting investigations and hearings on the administration's transgressions is tepid at best. Even so, after six intensely, some might say insanely, right-wing years even the most casual of investigations is likely to reflect badly on the White House and with two years left in office, the Bush Administration is unlikely to enjoy the consequences.