What should Bush do now?

[Frodo]

Focus on:

1. Getting Samuel Alito, Jr. confirmed to the Supreme Court;

2. Getting the PATRIOT Act permanently extended;

3. Stabilizing Iraq as much as possible before we leave;

4. Immigration reform with a guest-worker program.
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Social Security and Tax Code reforms should be left to another administration -there isn't time left for Bush to do much if anything beyond what I have enumerated.  This will be the last year in which the Bush administration has full power to do whatever it wants before it enters lame-duck status as the 2008 presidential elections get going after the 2006 midterms.
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Edited at Philip's assinine prodding.   

[Frodo]

There is obviously time left for Bush to make his tax cuts permanent.

I am referring to comprehensive tax code reform -not the piecemeal moves you're talking about. 

[Frodo]

You said anything beyond what you enumerated.

And of course, if there's another Supreme Court vacancy this year, or next, he has time to fill that too.

Very well, I will revise my statement,

'Bush cannot accomplish much if anything beyond what I have already enumerated.' 

Happy?  And in any case, the four main priorities I have outlined that I think the Bush administration should focus on remain the same.  There may or may not be another opening on the Supreme Court, and I strongly doubt that either Ginsberg or John Paul Stevens will step down for the remainder of the Bush presidency, preferring to wait for a Democratic administration to replace them. 

And even if another Republican does succeed Bush in the White House, it will be he -and not George W. Bush- who will likely appoint their replacements if they either step down or die.