It'd put him in the record books all right - and there'd be bound to be a bunch of revisionist historians who'd regularly come up with accounts of how he was a great man, and unfairly treated.

As it is he'll be written about as "perhaps the worst president ever" and so forth, and that'll be just about as bad, except he won't get the sympathy vote that an impeachment would be sure to get him in future generations.

I think impeachment and conviction might actually make for a better "heritage". I'm not suggesting he'd judge it that way, but when it come to Dubya's judgement the jury is out. Or rather it's not out, because that would imply a judicial process.

In any case it isn't going to happen, no matter what Bush might do in the public arena, so it's no kind of a threat or deterrent hanging over him.