FAIL

After 7 years and 9 months of bad decisions, George W. Bush has decided to cap off his last three months in office by doing absolutely nothing while the American economy goes down the shitter.

Now that's what you call building upon your legacy.

Even Herbert Hoover's last five months in office after the 1932 election (President's used to be inaugurated on March 4, thank goodness that changed in the 20th Amendment), were a beehive of activity with efforts to stave off total collapse. Indeed, one of the great relatively unreported stories of the transition between Hoover and Roosevelt were the former's constant efforts to enlist FRD in the decisions he made and FDR's reluctance to have his imprint on any of it. In the last few days of Hoover's Administration the outgoing and incoming Treasury officer's finally worked out some major details of the banking crisis.

But Bush is doing literally nothing. After the passage of the bailout money, he's literally disappeared. No one cares what he thinks, and no one thinks he cares. The only thing that he seems to be doing is burrowing his assholes into civil service, writing wankerrific Presidential Orders that will be overturned by the new Administration, and figuring out which donor or operative to pardon.

Heckuva job Bushie.