Man people are totally going to reevaluate Bush The Younger upwards, the same way we've been doing with Nixon. And it's going to involve an appreciation that Unitary Executive theory is actually less about usurping the powers of the legislature than pushing back against the usurpation of power by the permanent government and the para-state. Brownie made a hell of his job in Katrina but is also a consequence of taking seriously the idea that executive branches should maybe be run by people who will actually follow the direction of their elected president. George W. Bush will be remembered as a man who at least tried to apply the lessons of Eisenhower's farewell speech. Bureaucrats my god