Today, the anniversary of Nixon’s resignation, is a great day to reflect on how lousy the current head of the White House and this great nation is performing on the job. Oh, how I’d love to hear the following words emerge from President George Bush’s mouth today:

“By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of that process of healing which is so desperately needed in America,” he said. “I regret deeply any injuries that may have been done in the course of the events that led to this decision. I would say only that events that if some of my judgments were wrong — and some were wrong — they were made in what I believed at the time to be the best interests of the nation.”

Bush is the worst President of the United States since I’ve been alive. And yes, absolutely positively I’ll take the one quoted above who claimed he was “not a crook” over the guy in the White House currently. Raise the dead. Bring Nixon back. At least he did some things right with foreign policy.

Let’s run down the list. National debt under Bush better or worse? Worse. Foreign relations better or worse? Much worse. Safety and security of the nation better or worse? Worse. Bush gets an F across the board.

Last weekend I stopped off to see my grandmother who lived and worked through WWII and seen her share of presidents over the last century. She confirmed Bush was worse than Nixon, but not as bad as Hoover. It’s not just me that thinks Bush is a horrible president, historians are already coming to this conclusion too.

Bush had a rare chance after 9/11 to rally most of the world around America and what did he do? He marched us into a civil war in Iraq searching for phantom weapons of mass destruction. I’m sure Bush supporters — of which I don’t understand how any can be left that aren’t directly benefiting from his moves — will remind that his panel of experts were telling him Saddam had the WMDs, but we’ve seen dick. And meanwhile our brave men and women soldiers keep losing their lives while Osama Bin Laden roams free.

Why can’t this be the last year, month, week or day that Bush remains in office? Somebody tell me really what has Bush done in office that’s actually been positive? None of the politicians out there are perfect these days, but can anybody in the bid for election in 2008 be worse than Bush?

I’d gladly vote for a good Republican if such a creature actually exists. Sadly, the Democrats aren’t much better. We need a third party to emerge as a true force. The Common Sense party with a real business person in charge of the country instead of somebody who bends over for special interest groups.

Bush has taken this disdain for law even further. He has sought to strip people accused of crimes of rights that date as far back as the Magna Carta in Anglo-American jurisprudence: trial by impartial jury, access to lawyers and knowledge of evidence against them. In dozens of statements when signing legislation, he has asserted the right to ignore the parts of laws with which he disagrees. His administration has adopted policies regarding the treatment of prisoners of war that have disgraced the nation and alienated virtually the entire world. Usually, during wartime, the Supreme Court has refrained from passing judgment on presidential actions related to national defense. The court’s unprecedented rebukes of Bush’s policies on detainees indicate how far the administration has strayed from the rule of law.

And what about our infrastructure being more secure with Bush in office? No way. Look at the sad, sorry state of bridges around the country. 12% of them are structurally deficient. Katrina showed how absolutely incompetent the government is by how long it took to get aid to the people of New Orleans. Get our soldiers home and start diverting some tax dollars to create some real security on home soil.

Please do the right thing and step down, President Bush. Let somebody else get in there and start the healing and trying to patch up damaged relations both at home and abroad. We’ve got people in other countries who hate the American people, hate hardworking taxpayers like me, because they think we support your power hungry decisions. I didn’t vote for you and don’t support the mess you’ve created. I respect you as president the same way I respect vomit rising in my stomach. I want you to step down and resign like Nixon did. Today. Tomorrow. Soon.

Watergate was a picnic to the disaster Bush has created.

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