At the used-book shop, I'm reading Molly Ivin's 'Shrub, the Short, Happy Political Life of George W. Bush'. It was written when he was Governor of Texas, and then updated in 2001 after he was president.

It is an interesting - even funny - book but depressing. Among other things, she says that he did the same thing in Texas that he did in Washington: cut taxes, in consequence turning a 7.5 million surplus into a deficit. He left Texas in debt.

Like Palin did Wasilla.