Aww, Kevin, don't feel bad...

...he clearly did do something wrong!

Kevin Drum at Calpundit has the blues. "I'm saddened, of course," he writes, "that my preoccupation with George Bush's National Guard record has been brought to a halt by the lack of any solid evidence that he did anything wrong. Sigh."

Au contraire! Thanks in no small part to Kevin's own invaluable research, lots of folks know that George Bush did many things wrong during his National Guard service. Something illegal? No, probably not, it appears. But the difference between the 'right' thing to do and what Bush did is a mile wide.

The right thing to do was to sign up and wait your turn. Bush used family pull to snag a Guard assignment. The right thing to do was to accept an assignment he was qualified for. Bush got a coveted jet pilot slot despite his shortcomings in those qualifications. The right thing to do was to honor the investment made in his training by maintaining his flight status, but Bush blew off the required physical. The right thing to do was to be where he belonged, when he belonged there, doing the work he was trained to do, but Bush had an erratic attendance record, and ended up doing much of his duty through prefunctory makeup dates with at best ill defined duties.

In other words, Lt. George Bush wasted a huge investment in time and training while denying an important billet to someone who may have valued it enough to actually perform the duty he enlisted for. That was wrong.

Of course, some things never change. Even now, he's wasting government time and money occupying an important office that someone who may have valued it enough to actually perform the duty he was elected for might have had.

That's wrong, too, and we can fix it in November.

Hey, as long as he's gone in January, I'm even willing to call it an honorable discharge.