reyonthehill

I think this news-story sums up the Bush administration... "By itself, the move [the lifting of a presidential moratorium on drilling for oil and natural gas on the Outer Continental Shelf] will have little impact, because Congress enacted a moratorium in 1982 that remains in place."

One might say that the Bush presidency has had, in fact, major impact, with regards to a runaway war policy (the Bush doctrine), capital offenses (Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo), wire-tapping, and the flagrant extension of executive privilege and the purported unitary executive branch. On the other hand, Bush is presiding over what could be considered the longest lame duck presidency in modern U.S. history, with scores of presidential contenders running away from the very scent of an administration mired in scandal and the lowest approval ratings in more than a generation.