Many people have many different reactions when you look at a list of all President Bush's irresponsible actions: bewilderment, anger, jaw-dropping "How could
anyone be that dumb?" astonishment, and so on.
Bush is not paying any heed to the events that have come before us, nor does he pay any attention to what will come after his tenure as President. He disregards fifty years of international coalition building among both Democratic and Republican Presidents; raids the Social Security trust fund scant years before the baby-boomers retire, adds a useless, pork-laden prescription drug expansion onto Medicare which will bankrupt it sooner rather than later; he has no coherent energy policy other than giving money to oil companies, which will be passed onto executives...
The list goes on, and I need not explain to this audience what a disaster this President has been over the past three years. But it appears as if the President has Temporary Tunnel Vision (TTV, if you will) in his scope of the world. In his mind (i.e. Karl Rove), what happened the past two centuries, or even the last fifty years, is of no consequence to his Presidency. The impact of his decisions does not directly affect his vast wealth over the next fifty or hundred years: why worry?
This repulsive mentality is why I'm calling Bush the Blank Slate President: he callously tosses out what it took decades of careful statesmanship to create, and runs this country into the ground in order to buy his re-election with legislative pork for targeted constituencies.
Let me tell you something, Mr. President: we, the American people, have to deal with your crap longer than you will. And we're prepared to show you the door come November.