Junior

George W. Bush didn't seem to warrant being credited with agency, a tool if there ever was one and in all respects, but with a little distance it looks different.

Even Republicans were assumed not to want to screw things up the way he did. After all, there was that rescue party of old associates and assorted hacks.

The big man ignored them. Now I think that George, Jr., was the truest son of Lee Atwater, the most amazing piece of shit in the history of American politics.

Atwater was daddy Bush's indispensable hunk of garbage and Junior saw it all in Lee--that he, Junior, didn't have to be like daddy and rate on daddy's terms.

Junior saw that he could outshine the old man or at least make good as a piece of shit and forever get the weight of being a hopeless, mutant blue-blood off his back.

Following Junior there appeared to be the abandoning of that level of recklessness but, no. We see now that it will go on until the country is in the gutter.

George W. Bush was an agent of destruction and a clear, linear part of the larger plan of making the country so weak that only the rich will be left standing.