It's now been just under 500 days since I wrote the following on the spur of the moment:

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Judge now that I spoke truthfully:

The bad news just keeps coming for Bush and the GOP in this latest AP-Ipsos poll.

• 70% of Republicans think civil war will break out in Iraq.
• 70% of Americans think US is on wrong track
• 37% approve of his job performance
• 74% of Republicans approve his performance, down from 82% in February
• 36% approval rating on domestic affairs, down from 39% last month
• 43% approval on foreign policy and terrorism
• 40% approval on Iraq and economy
• 2/3 disapprove of Congress job performance

The George W. Bush administration is over. The media will resist acknowledging it, and the right-wing will continue to deny it long past January 20, 2009, but it is over. What few leadership capabilities the man had are nowhere near enough for this country, and the citizens realize that. The only intelligent discussion left is about what comes next and how to get our country out of the misery, death, and destruction that this administration caused.

They couldn't fix it if they wanted to. This presidency is over.