Bush in his second term is a lame-duck do-nothing Chief Executive, with a job approval rating of about 40%, the worst ever for him. Bill Clinton's job approval rating during the impeachment hearings of 1998 was at 73% in a CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll. I doubt that Bush's numbers will ever be that high.

Bush was riding high after his re-election. At a White House press conference on Nov. 4, 2004, Bush said he would use the "political capital" he earned from the election to push his agenda for the second term. "Let me put it to you this way: I earned capital in the campaign, political capital, and now I intend to spend it. It is my style. That's what happened in the -- after the 2000 election, I earned some capital. I've earned capital in this election -- and I'm going to spend it for what I told the people I'd spend it on, which is -- you've heard the agenda: Social Security and tax reform, moving this economy forward, education, fighting and winning the war on terror," Bush said.

Here we are now, nine months into the second term, and Bush has squandered his capital. What happened to Social Security reform? Why haven't we caught Osama Bin Laden? What exactly is his administration doing for education, if that administration wants to cut funding to the Federal Perkins Loan Program?

When Republicans talk about the Clinton administration, they'll mention the "scandals" of his administration, always trying to make the argument of what a poor president Bill Clinton was because of those scandals (or rather, non-scandals, since no charges were ever filed against Clinton for them).

Of course, those same Republicans look away when it comes to this administration. Let's start with the flawed intelligence of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction that was the basis of our attacking Iraq in 2003. When no weapons were found, no one was held accountable. The CIA was criticized for its role in the bad intelligence, yet the former CIA Director George Tenet was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for