Who's driving this thing?

Greg Mitchell at Editor and Publisher has tossed the ball to our media asking them to begin addressing the crisis presented by 33 more months of a Bush presidency, noting well that he can do a lot of damage in that time frame and it's the media's responsibility to raise the alarm. The money quote is from Tom Friedman's NYT column.

Friedman, who still supports the Iraq war, opens by declaring that given a choice between a nuclear Iran and an attack on that country engineered by the White House, he would choose the former. That’s how little he trusts the diplomatic and military chops of Bush, Rumsfeld, Condi and Co. He cites “the level of incompetence that the Bush team has displayed in Iraq, and its refusal to acknowledge any mistakes or remove those who made them.”

But then he goes on: “I look at the Bush national security officials much the way I look at drunken drivers. I just want to take away their foreign policy driver's licenses for the next three years. Sorry, boys and girls, you have to stay home now -- or take a taxi. ... You will not be driving alone. Not with my car.”

Of course the problem is Georgie has the keys to the car and he doesn't care about playing by the rules. Unfortunately, no one has a solution to this crisis. For myself, I'm thinking more and more that we don't have time to dick around with censure and impeachment. I think what's needed is a mass outcry asking Bush to resign for the good of the country.