Today, one columnist you have to check is Mo Dowd on Scott McClellan

who has written about the lies and perfidies of the Bush administration and Bush personally.

She makes a few well apropos points:

One about junior’s bumpy and improbable boomerang journey from family black sheep and famous screw-up back to family black sheep and famous screw-up.

This is so spot on, becoz all the time in the 2000 campaign, those of us who researched his past and came up with his list of failures and shortcomings, including his financial blundering, his mistakes on the Texas budget, had emphasized just that.

His supporters said no he is a successful business man and ball team owner, and a graduate of posh universities and all of you are just kvitchy and jealous.

Indian Americans also adored him, especially Indians in Texas and in the South. So their own fiscal conservativeness and shrewdness, and they are largely a hugely hard working and successful group, demographically, did not give them any better insight into his huge failings and proclivities.

also the bankruptcies and shady dealings of his brothers.

The boomerang is particularly ironic, becoz soon after the height of the 9.11 tragedy, soon after the memorable church function, when he turned himself into a messianic persona, his Mommy said proudly, now he belongs to the world.

And just recently, his parents and he were photographed and they were almost regretful and bashful of his current ignominy, but the roots of his failings were apparent a long time ago.

Not just that, but his parents and his family even thought for Jebbie to be a logical successor as late as last year and if you ask me, they still harbor hopes of a family resurgence.

The second astute observation Mo Dowd makes is regarding how Bush came to be that way:

It seems that if you trust your gut without ever feeding your gut any facts or news or contrary opinions, if you keep your gut on a steady diet of grandiosity, ignorance, sycophants, and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, those snap decisions can be ruinous.

Bush was wilfully ignorant and went from town to town trumpeting his message in 2002, and his supporters, particularly in the Red States believed his baloney all the way through, whether it was on taxes, or the war.

And it is only now, when it has all come a cropper, that they have some regrets, not becoz they feel he was wrong, but becoz it all came out wrong and they dont see any easy way to wiggle out.