Where President George W. Bush will rank in history is an interesting cocktail party conversation topic, regardless of your political views.
In a series of articles in today's Washington Post, several historians argue that the Iraq quagmire will likely drag him to the lower ranks.
But there are other issues that matter to Cascadia and are worth considering. One has to wonder how history will rank policies that include tariffs on timber and steel, trade-distorting farm subsidies, homeland security that stifles trade yet doesn't normalize the dependence on immigrant labor, and huge deficits that prevent investments in education and infrastructure.