And the rest say: "what took you so long?"

Matthew Dowd, an Ex-Aide to the President details his loss of faith. Dowd was a Democrat who lost faith in the Clinton administration and was impressed when he watched Bush operate in Austin. I understand that to a point, but he became part of the poll machine, helping Karl Rove find out how to further divide the country and appeal to the extremes. Oh well, he feels bad about it now. After helping paint John Kerry as a flip flopper, he wrote, but didn't submit an oped piece under the title, "Kerry was right" about the war, that is.

He criticized the president as failing to call the nation to a shared sense of sacrifice at a time of war, failing to reach across the political divide to build consensus and ignoring the will of the people on Iraq. He said he believed the president had not moved aggressively enough to hold anyone accountable for the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, and that Mr. Bush still approached governing with a “my way or the highway” mentality reinforced by a shrinking circle of trusted aides.

Later he says he was stunned that Bush kept Rumsfeld on after Abu Ghraib--though why he was stunned is beyond me. Bush and Cheney were at the same time working to justify torture.

In 2006, Dowd watched the reelection campaign of Arnold in California and marveled at someone reaching beyond his own party.

"I think we should design campaigns that appeal not to 51 percent of the people,” he said, “but bring the country together as a whole."

During his interview on the Daily Show, not only did John Bolton misread Lincoln and all of American history, but he also displayed the right wing approach to politics. Bolton said that it was Bush's responsibility to do what his supporters wanted, and not what all of America wanted. Bush has governed so narrowly since his election--essentially extending his middle finger to those who voted against him as if we don't deserve representation.

I am glad Dowd is speaking out. But he has a lot of explaining yet to do.