Hey, Mr. Bush: Still Got That Mission Accomplished Banner?

Because Mr. Lame Duck, if you do have the Mission Accomplished banner hanging around from your May 2003 announcement that the war in Iraq was over (::ahem::), I think you can finally hang it honestly.

Oh, not because the war in Iraq is over. If anything, you've only made it exponentially worse.

But you did accomplish something, Mr. "President": you and your ilk ruined this country so very badly that Americans were finally willing to turn off "American Idol" and turn to their responsibilities as voters and as thoughtful citizens of both the U.S. and the planet.

This may be the first decent thing you've done, Dubya. Nobody else was quite able to ruin things as you have to terrify people enough to wake up.

It's OK, though. Many Americans have come out of their "terror alerts" and gotten back to work as members of a constitutional democracy.

Whether you're impeached, imprisoned, tried and convicted as a war criminal, or (sadly) allowed to fade into the sunset, you're gone, buddy. People now know exactly what you are, and it's never been leader of the free world.