Molly Ivins is starting a series of articles on how to clean up the mess Bush has created.
(I haven't seen her name on DKos; I just did a search now to see if she's mentioned in comments and the results answer is: 0.)
There's more below including, I hope, a poll. It didn't show up on the preview. Apologies if it doesn't make it through.
She's a Texas liberal journalist, and one of the State's great resources.
She maintains,
While it's still an open contest for Worst Legacy of the Bush Years, the destruction of goodwill for America around the world is definitely a contender
You might like the Texas understatement (yes, yes it happens):
You could make a pretty good case that one root of the Bush administration's abysmal diplomatic record is simply bad manners. "We don't needd any help" was certainly a true responsee [in cleaing up NY after 911]. But, "Thank you" would have been better.
And the sort of plain speech valued on DKos:
The colossal ineptitude of Bush's diplomacy, if it can be called that, leading up to the Iraq war was somewhere between ludicrous and nuts. Bullying, bribing, threatening -- and these were our allies. The insanity of our approach to Turkey, one of America's oldest democratic allies in the Middle East, is textbook -- to be studied in international relations schools for years. In the name of bringing democracy to Iraq (actually, at the time we never mentioned that as a reason), we threatened to end it in Turkey. Good grief.
Along with solid analysis: it's about oil, finally, and that's connected to all sorts of issues about conservation, the environment, etc.
So check her out! (I humbly suggest.)