The President as Quagmire

We think of quagmires as places, ensnaring traps such as Vietnam and, of course, Iraq — and perhaps the entire Middle East.

The fact is that this country's quagmire is not a place, but a man, George W. Bush.

We are torso-deep in the devastating muck and ooze of Bush and his venal. power-mad administration — and we are going down fast.

As the original quagmire metaphor suggests, the answer is to drain the swamp.

In a word, impeach.