Even if Bush does owe shouting, red-faced James Baker his [cough] "election" in Florida 2000, that's no reason to think He'll be grateful:

"For Bush, the day of reckoning is at hand. After years of talking tough, smearing war opponents as appeasers and demanding 'total victory,' he must confront the fact that his Iraq war has been a catastrophic failure. . . .

"The Republican Party brain trust [in the form of James Baker's commission], such as it is, desperately needs to find a way to talk Bush off the ledge, pry him away from his neocon delusions and Darth Cheney, and persuade him to cut his losses."

I'm a big believer in metrics, as I think Our Preznit would be, with the MBA and all.

And so I have a metric for the number of losses that Bush should cut:

The losses are two in number (typically, at least)

And I believe I know some people, and maybe even some frogs, who would be more than willing to wield the knife.

Troll prophylactic It's just an entertaining metaphor!