Our ship of state is effectively captainless and rudderless now, and we've got two and half years to go of this presidency.. Yeah, it's a real big problem.
Yep. He has nobody to blame but himself and his strange maneuvers in the last year. Increasingky, it appears the popular liberal depiction of Dubya as arrogant, unduly secretive, and at times dimwitted has some accuracy. :-)
If he would take the rudder and govern as a conservative, he can turn this around.