There's no other way to described George W. Bush.

Common criminal (Drunk driving; Harkin Energy)

National criminal (NSA Spying)

International criminal (Lying a nation into a war of pure aggression and empire)

Crimes Against Humanity (Torture)

War Crimes (Abu Ghraib)

High Crimes and Misdemeanors (Election cheating, exposing a covert US intelligence agent)

Today's press conference saw the public tactics of a man desperate to shift the laws of once great nation to cover his own misdeeds. As was made eminently clear by Constitutional scholar Jonathan Turley, the Red Cross, when it interviews and reports the result of those interviews of the detainees tortured under orders endorsed by the man at whose desk the buck does, indeed, stop, his crimes will be clear to everyone.

Mr. Bush fears as much as anything a House of Representatives newly energized by a Democratic majority, armed with subpoena power, and conducting hearings with witnesses sworn legally to tell the truth.

Forget the rhetoric. Forget the partisan cheering. These are deadly serious issues.

We have no choice, if the allegations prove, as we know they will, true. We must impeach and remove from office the President, the Vice President, and certain others of his administration. Following the political removal of these criminals from office, we cannot rest.

We must indict.

We must try.

Upon conviction, we must punish. There will be no rehabilitation save the reputation of our once and future great nation. The punishments must be so severe that no one will dare repeat the actions, the hubris, the arrogance - the criminality - of George W. Bush and his gang of thugs. In meting the punishment, as they themselves so love to say, no options shall be off the table.

Yes, what we saw today was the rantings of a desperate criminal.