So I’m reading a book by Senator Robert Byrd about America since 9/11 basically and it’s really funny that I came to this passage on the same day that I saw that clip with Bush stumbling and saying nothing regarding sovereign nations and sovereign tribes:

My remarks were to the point. I noted that the president wanted quick action on his “homeland security package” but I had never been informed of just what was in the “package.” I had heard one leader at the table vow passage of “this thing” by Election Day. I repeated that, as yet, “I don’t know what ‘this thing’ is.” The president responded witha non sequitur, thanking me for my statement and assuring me that it would be considered. Then he promptly rose and headed out the door. Amazing. I might as well have been reciting a recipe for Christmas fruitcake. My opinion of meetings at the White House hit a new low. I was struck by the president’s dismal performance. To say it was mediocre would be a gross exaggeration. He was disorganized, unprepared, and rambling. This fellow was all hat and no cattle, as they would say in Texas. It was obvious that he had no idea what was in his Department of Homeland Security propsal, nor did he seem to care. The gratuitous “thanks to members” was so phony it bordered on an affront. I had sat in meetings with many presidents: John Kennedy knew his subject and appealed to reason gently; Johnson was the consummate tour de force, coy, sly bullyingif need be; Nixon was deadly serious and always well prepared; Jimmy Carter was a good listener with a facility for great detail; Ronald Regan, a joke-teller, a charmer, who read from three-by-five cards and usually turned the substance over to staffers; Bush number 41, serious, intent, well informed; Bill Clinton, likeable, jovial, and with a vast knowledge of policy on a wide array of topics which he liked to display. But this president, this Bush number 43, was in a class by himself — ineptitude supreme. This meeting with Bush the Yunger had tpped anything I had seen, from Truman on, for absolute tripe!

BTW, the book is called “Losing America: Confronting a Reckless and Arrogant Presidency”

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