Please correct me if I'm wrong here (and I'm sure someone will) but isn't an implicit job description for the Office of President of the United States the responsibility to lead the country in the direction of its best interests? As opposed to, say....fiddling around? And wouldn't the obvious role of "A Decider" (or, for Bush purists, The Decider) be to decide?
Does anyone else find it morally reprehensible, even, perhaps, criminally negligent, for the current Commander-in-Chief to be tromping around a brush-sprouting Texas "ranch", entertaining various visitors, cowering from tornadoes with tax-payer funded Secret Service protection, and not leading or deciding a bloody thing?
During Bush's two-month, carefree hiatus-from-responsibility (it must be carefree--he avows he doesn't even lose any sleep) we've rather quickly managed to approach the 3000 total number of American soldiers killed in Iraq, and added how many to the countless others wounded and permanently maimed? How many more Iraqis killed if the deaths are averaging over 400 a day? How many of our handful of remaining allies are dead?
Of course all of us know the reason for this mindless fiddling. Bush does not know what to do. He's made the most catastrophic strategic blunder in American history, causing regional upheavals and "unintended consequences" the like of which we haven't even begun to calculate long-term, and now he's waiting like an overly-indulged kid for someone, anyone, including a blindsided fairy godmother, to wave a wand and save him from the chaos that he's made. But the wand hasn't been created that can get him out of this one.
Sorry, Mr. President, waiting and fiddling is not near good enough. Since you can't lead, can't decide, can't find a way to safety for our military and the people of Iraq, you should step down. Now. Resign the office you've disgraced. Immediately.
Or, there's an option that we, The People, can exercise through the congress that we, The People, elected to represent us, as is clearly stated in our Constitution, Section 4:
The President, Vice President, and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other High Crimes and Misdemeanors.
Even your faithful admirer David Gergen recently said, on Hardball, that too much time has already passed during this decision-making process, such as it is. When does this deliberate avoidance of responsibility, this flagrant and deadly dereliction of duty by a Commander-in-Chief become the impeachable offense of High Crime? How many more must die? How much longer are Americans willing to wait while Baghdad burns?