A) Gets him off the hook early - thus successor's watch gets tagged with the denouement. Which shall be as destructive as anticipated, but perhaps in interesting new ways (certainly beyond Shrub's infantile imaginative qualities.)

B) Clearly he is unable to face even the mere possibility that.. he is responsible entirely for that List of 100 Blunders (if one counts only the Largest ones.) He is *Certain* that he is doing God'sWill\ufffd. Surely that Belief is er, inextirpable.

Ergo - Some one/thing must remove him from autopilot as, He Knows Nothing Else to do. Next..