I think that Nancy Pelosi has saved George Bush's job and enabled him to improve his place in history, although he will always be regarded as an extreme ideologue and a fool. But she did it, not because she gives a damn about George W. Bush, but because she cares about America.
Long before she became Speaker-to-be, Nancy Pelosi privately announced that she would not impeach Bush, and thus gave Poppa Bush the signal that he had better take control of his stupid son. Thus was born the Iraq Study Group.
The implicit understanding that Nancy Pelosi, long may she reign, gave to Poppa Bush and to the rest of the powers behind the throne in Washington DC was that if they would take charge and put the country on the right path, she would leave the Chief Evildoer alone. But, and here she proves that she carries the biggest hammer in town, if they refused to reign the Spoiled Child in, she would impeach his sorry ass.
Poppa Bush, I think, realized that he had to move fast. He contacted his fund-raising buddy, Bill Clinton, and they developed the Iraq Study Group which includes the following members:
Former Secretary of State James Baker
Former Representative Lee Hamilton
Former CIA Director Robert Gates
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani
Former Clinton Adviser Vernon Jordan
Former Clinton Chief of Staff Leon Panetta
Former Defense Secretary William Perry
Former Democratic Senator Chuck Robb
Former GOP Senator Alan Simpson
Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor
Five Democrats and five Republicans. Notice how two of them, Vernon Jordan and Leon Panetta, are close to Clinton. They have no other expertise to offer. They are there to keep Bill Clinton informed and to move things in the direction that Clinton wants.
Notice that Sandra Day O'Connor is on the team. She is there to make sure that proper respect for the Constitution and the rule of law are reestablished. Gates is on the team because Poppa Bush had already intended to replace Rumsfeld and he wanted his guy standing by -- so the new Secretary of Defense is Poppa's man, not the child's. The adults have taken over.
Cheney is isolated and little George will take his orders from the usual Bush cleanup crew. But the sorry sonofabitch has always lived his life this way. He has created mess after mess and then Poppa cleaned them up. Here we go again. But the human toll is incredible. Hundreds of thousands of innocent people are killed and maimed, you know the list.
The talking heads are now disparaging Rumsfeld's judgement and attitude, and saying that they knew it all along. I think they did know it, but they lacked the integrity to tell the people about it.
Some of the talking heads are saying that Bush is decisive and bold, but the little tyrant is just following Poppa's orders. So even though Poppa has done the right thing it is long overdue and he sat by why much evil was done.