Will the Bush Administration implode?

With a title like that I had to post about this authors take on the future of the Bush presidency.

Under the headline, Bushies Feeling the Boss's Wrath, Thomas DeFrank, that paper's Washington Bureau Chief, wrote, "Facing the darkest days of his presidency, President Bush is frustrated, sometimes angry and even bitter, his associates say… ‘This is not some manager at McDonald's chewing out the help,' said a source with close ties to the White House when told about these outbursts. ‘This is the President of the United States, and it's not a pleasant sight.'… Presidential advisers and friends say Bush is a mass of contradictions: cheerful and serene, peevish and melancholy, occasionally lapsing into what he once derided as the ‘blame game.'" Frankly, the description already has a touch of Richard Nixon (as his presidency delaminated after Watergate finally hit).

I cannot get enough of the Richard Nixon comparison, though I would argue that Bush makes Nixon look like an amateur at deception.

Not long after, hurricane Katrina swept into town; the President refused to end his vacation; FEMA began twisting, twisting in the wind; Tom DeLay went down; Rita blew in (to be followed by Wilma); Senator Frist found himself blinded by his trust; the President nominated his own lawyer to the Supreme Court -- at this point, even some of his conservative allies began peeling away -- and then, of course, waiting in the wings, there was the ultimate October surprise, Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald -- backed by a reinvigorated media and an angry bureaucracy -- ready to lift the lid on a whole can of worms not likely to be closed for years to come.

See Nixon never had the sheer volume of corruption and duplicity that this administration has made into a political art. This president wanted to be a historic president and he is going to get his wish. He is going to be known as the worst president in American history.