"Whew. I'm sorry. I had to get that out of my system."

Don't you FUCKING DARE apologize. Your assessment, though brutal, looks pretty spot-on to me. It's also funny as hell, though bitterly so.

Bush could score at least a tenth of a political brownie point by asking Jimmy Carter for help. (I don't know exactly what Habitat for Humanity could do in the short term, but in the long term, I'm sure they could do plenty.) Of course, he won't.