The Damning Judgment of the American People: Bush is a Miserable Failure

A very enlightening Pew Poll on soon-to-be-ex-President George W. Bush can be found here. Its results represent, to be blunt, a total repudiation of Bush by the vast majority of the American people. My favorite highlights:

As his second term ends, only 13% say Bush has made progress toward solving the major issues facing the country; 37% say he has made those problems worse and 34% say he has tried but failed in his efforts. Another 11% say he has not addressed the major problems facing the country.

More than three times as many people say Bush will go down in history as a poor president (34%) than said the same of Bill Clinton at the end of his presidency (11%). About a quarter (24%) say Bush will be seen as below average and close to three-in-ten (28%) say he will be seen as average. Just 11% say he will go down in history as above average or outstanding.

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Americans by a wide margin (64% to 24%) also say that in the long run the failures of the Bush administration will outweigh its accomplishments. The assessment of Clinton in 2001, despite controversy over how he had conducted himself in office, was virtually a mirror image. Six-in-ten said the accomplishments would outweigh the failures, and 27% said the failures would outweigh the accomplishments.

And this just does my malicious little heart good:

I'll be discussing Bush's disastrous legacy more in the weeks to come as we happily count down the days until his rotten administration is through. But the Pew Survey reaffirms what many of us already know:

Worst. President. EVER.