No Confidence: Another Call for Bush to Resign

The latest Newsweek poll has Bush's approval ratings at 38 percent. This is one point lower than Nixon at his worst, 20 points lower than Clinton during the depth of the impeachment hearings. It's so bad it also tends to stain the presumed, and still questionable, legitimacy of the last election.

Already weak, regarded widely as dishonest about war, President Bush's failure to lead in a time of national crisis - in planning, management, anticipation and execution- has cost him the confidence of the people of the United States. This means he has lost his ability to effectively govern; he and his entire cabinet should leave in order to restore basic confidence in the American government, domestically and abroad. The fact that he is throwing money at the problem now is immaterial. George W. Bush has failed one time too many.

I realize we do not have an easy system for allowing this; we are not a parlimentary democracy. But this government is intolerable; if we are to preserve our domestic trust and our international stability, we require a new government.

If Bush has any honor, he will leave. So, he will not.

Impeachment was impossible, uncontemplated - now it's only unlikely, and that might change as the dissembling and corruption pile up. With the political weakness from incompetence, if the special prosecutor indicts Rove over the Plame affair anytime soon, a collapse of this government is possible.

Cheney will have to resign. A plan might be wise.

I wonder what Gerald Ford is up to.