Frank Rich (NYT) Opinion on the lamest duck in American history. Impeachable - pity is not an option

" ... trying to hawk his
goods in these final days, like a salesman who hasn’t been told by the home office that his product has beendiscontinued."

I endorse this opinion and agree with the assessment.

Op-Ed Columnist - A President Forgotten but Not Gone - NYTimes.com

Excerpt:

The one indisputable talent of his White House was its ability to create and sell propaganda both to the public and the press.

Now that bag of tricks is empty as well. Bush’s first and last photo-ops in Iraq could serve as bookends to his entire tenure. On Thanksgiving weekend 2003, even as the Iraqi insurgency was spiraling, his secret trip to the war zone was a P.R. slam-dunk. The photo of the beaming commander in chief bearing a supersized decorative turkey for the troops was designed to make every front page and newscast in the country, and it did.

Five years later, in what was intended as a farewell victory lap to show off Iraq’s improved post-surge security, Bush was reduced to ducking shoes.

And this excerpt from a second source:

McClatchy - David Lightman

Even to his defenders, Bush's legacy is 'debatable'

WASHINGTON — George W. Bush was supposed to be a president schooled in consensus building and tough, effective management.

However, the first chief executive with a master's in business administration — from Harvard, no less, and the son of a president known for his foreign-policy expertise — is leaving President-electBarack Obama a nation that's arguably in the worst shape since Herbert Hoover left Franklin Roosevelt the Great Depression and a world inwhich fascism was on the march 76 years ago.

"Obama gets Pearl Harbor and the Depression all rolled into one," said Gleaves Whitney, the director of the Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies in Grand Rapids, Mich.

Whilescholars estimate that it takes at least a generation before apresident's legacy can be analyzed objectively, many already are unflinching in their assessment of Bush.

The 43rd president presided over a "free-for-all in which powerful insiders . . . have played roles as policy entrepreneurs," said Karen Hult, a presidential expert at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va.

"We can certainly talk about his remarkably sloppy decision-making process.That did have consequences," added George Edwards, a presidentialscholar at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas.