perfidy

Forgive me, but I get the inescapable impression that in trying to do his best, George W. Bush is coming in his second term to resemble more and more none other than... Jimmy Carter. Think about it. He has stocked his talent pool with Texan cronies and other assorted yes-men and seems determined to rely only on their supposedly ex-Beltway judgment for counsel (disregarding Cheney and Rumsfeld, for whom family connections apply) for better or worse. His domestic initiatives are foundering, his international initiatives are suffering from terminal lack of focus, and on a personal level he is a religous man prone to make snap judgments about people's qualities.

I know it's a stretch and probably unfair to both George and Jimmy, but that's the way I sees it.

[wik] With the obvious caveat, of course, that nobody ever doubted Jimmy Carter's integrity.