Reply #76: Because he couldn't evacuate a city or stop a terrorist plot...

[Hippo_Tron]

For which he had all of the warning signs righ before their eyes. This administration can't do anything right and because of that I have no reason to believe that they could run an efficient secret police operation where they can make people disappear without someone finding out. Our president is a moron and the people that surround him may be smarter than he is, but that doesn't mean that they are competent. If Bush started making people disappear it would be leaked to the New York Times within a few months.

There's been mass hysteria about things that Bush would do if re-elected like invade Iran and Syria and re-instate the draft. Neither of those things have happened. What has happened that nobody predicted, however, is that hundreds of people died in New Orleans because of this administration's incompetence.

Incompetent administrations with approval ratings of 37% of a good day can't get away with a Gestapo-like operation. It simply won't work. Bush's ability to do much of anything evil in his remaining two years in office will be shattered once the Democrats take back the House and possibly the Senate. The only further damage that he can do is either through another failure in a Katrina-like situation or through another Supreme Court appointment.

The next administration, however, may be able to pull this off and that's what I'm far more worried about. I would much rather see us trying to use our political capital to revise or repeal the Military Commissions Act as well as the Patriot Act than to make a futile attempt at impeachment.