But two things he has done recently are simply "stupid" and now one has reached the political threshold of "unforgiveable":
1. He signed the Campaign Finance Reform Act, and
2. He is now doing this.
#1 I can understand. He did it because of "politics", but made an serious error in judgment, i.e. he figured if he wouldn't stand up for the Constitution - just like Congress wouldn't - at least the Supreme Court would and he wouldn't have to take the heat either ... but, BIG stupid mistake...
#2 I cannot understand at all. Not at all. Bush now owns the immigration problem! He has completely discredited long-standing attempts to secure our borders and our nation from waves of illegal immigrants. This will ruin the struggling economy, will overwhelm our state and national welfare and medical support systems and destroy them, it will make our balance of payments worse, it will cause immense social upheaval, it will result in a Democrat victory in 2004 as this Administration is shunned and ignored in disgust by it's very base at the polls. Likely there will be increasing violence as the border states become more pro-Mexican and estranged from the rest of the country and we see de facto "ethnic cleansing" and sky-high resentment (just read through this thread if you want some examples of this).
I don't expect this can turn out peacefully now as this pressure cooker of problems will now be accepted as "normal" by both parties and something we must adapt to. We have just now increased our internal problems exponentially - not solved them - by compromising our national fabric, cohesion, laws and respect the system can any longer "solve" this problem. This is not a solution, only a harbringer of worse to come.
Political correctness, Liberals, lawyers and endless political pandering will do the business of destruction soon enough as we become an ungovernable mess like Yugoslavia with every ethnic and alien faction vying for politial power and supremacy while the ones who hold the Constitution dear are increasingly marginalized in scorn.
I think the only solution is the "California" solution - a wave of resentment sweeping away all current politicans which brings in an entirely new team. Who that will or could be, I have no idea. But, it probably won't be soon enough before awful damage is done.
/rant