Kevin Drum asks, "When is enough enough?"

(W)ith Bush, every time you get past the high school version of his policies, he's just adrift. He's generally shrewd enough to change the subject when he realizes he's at sea, but when he does answer it's scary.

Like I said, I don't think we need Albert Einstein in the Oval Office. But do Republicans really feel comfortable with a guy who so plainly doesn't understand his own policies? Don't they think this might have something to do with the fact that so much of what he's done has turned out badly even from a conservative perspective?

It's really not that he's all that stupid or all that evil, he's just not bright enough to handle the job, even after four years of on-the-job training. Being surrounded by smart advisors with their own agenda just makes him always seem like he has an ulterior motive which doesn't help. He does have an underlying scheme for his plans, unfortunately they are not of his making nor does he fully appreciate all of their implications.

Sad really. We SO deserve better. What happens on, say Hallowween, two days before the election, and we have twin bus bombing in Chicago like they just had in Tel Aviv, at the same time a school in Pittsburgh is taken over by gunmen demanding we get out of Iraq like what just happened in Chechnia?

My bet is that Bush doesn't miss his photo-op with the Governor of Ohio and has Scott McManiquin deliver the typical "bring 'em to justice," statement, then use the tragedy to say we still need him so this kind of thing doesn't happen again -- again? Callous bastards. They've taken advantage of this guy and he doesn't even know, or care.

If ever there was a need for a Constitutional Amendment limiting the presidency .to one six-year term, this guy is the poster child. Get back to work dammit! Recess is over. You just know something nasty is headed our way -- and it ain't a hurricane.