WTF Is It Now?!?

Forgettable words from an irrelevant president
From an editorial in the Toronto Star:

Like most presidents at this late stage of their tenure, Bush is preoccupied with his legacy. Puh-leeeze. His legacy is pretty much set in stone by now: a shamefully under-funded No Child Left Behind policy which turned out to be a veiled attack on teachers; blocking potentially life-saving stem-cell research, a D.O.A. proposal for Social Security reform, and, as Bush unintentionally confirmed, no genuine progress on global warming or energy security. And don't mention the wars – the one America lost in Iraq, and is losing in Afghanistan, the place where US troops do need to be "surged."

Say this for him: Bush has worked hard to become irrelevant. Asked to speculate on the energy proposals that [made] it into Bush's {SoTfU} speech, a Capitol Hill lobbyist told Britain's Financial Times: "Energy policy has been the creation of Congress. Almost anything Bush says in the speech is irrelevant the day after he says it."

Indeed.