Editor 's note : Jack Cafferty is the author of a new book , `` Now or Never : Getting Down to the Business of Saving Our American Dream . '' He provides commentary on CNN 's `` The Situation Room '' daily from 4 to 7 p.m . ET . You can also visit Jack 's Cafferty File blog . CNN 's Jack Cafferty says `` the pain wo n't go away '' until Bush administration 's misdeeds are addressed . ( CNN ) -- It does n't go away by itself . Watergate `` went away '' when Richard Nixon resigned the presidency in disgrace and left town never to be heard from in an official capacity again . The Bush presidency is thankfully over ... but the damage he and Dick Cheney did continues to press on the nerve of the American people like an impacted wisdom tooth . And until the questions surrounding arguably the most arrogant and perhaps most corrupt administration in our history are addressed , the pain wo n't go away . From Nancy ( `` Impeachment is off the table '' ) Pelosi to President Barack ( `` I want to look forward , not backward '' ) Obama , the country is being poorly served by their Democratic government . And on this subject President Obama is dead wrong . George W. Bush and his accomplices damaged this country like it 's never been damaged before . And it 's not just the phony war in Iraq or the torture memos that justified waterboarding . It 's millions of missing emails and the constant use of executive privilege and signing statements . It 's the secretive meetings with Enron and other energy executives and the wholesale firing of federal prosecutors . It 's trying to get the president 's personal attorney seated on the Supreme Court and that despicable Alberto Gonzales sitting in front of congressional investigators whining , `` I do n't remember , I do n't know , I ... etc . '' It 's the domestic eavesdropping in violation of the FISA Court , the rendition prisons , and the lying . It 's looking the other way while the City of New Orleans drowned and its people were left to fend for themselves . It 's the violations of the Geneva Conventions , the soiling of our international reputation and the shredding of the U.S. Constitution . It 's the handing over of $ 700 billion to the Wall Street fat cats last fall , no questions asked . Where is that money ? What was it used for ? It 's the no-bid contracts to firms like Halliburton and Blackwater and the shoddy construction and lack of oversight of reconstruction in Iraq that cost American taxpayers untold billions . If the Republicans were serious about restoring their reputation , they would join the call for a special prosecutor to be appointed so that at long last justice can be done . It 's too late for George W. Bush to resign the presidency . But it 's not too late to put the people responsible for this national disgrace in prison . The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Jack Cafferty .
Jack Cafferty : Bush administration left behind a trail of misdeeds . Cafferty : Obama is wrong to say he only wants to look forward , not back . Cafferty : Damage will last until Bush-Cheney deeds are addressed . Cafferty : A special prosecutor should be named to investigate .