He's bucking for a Nobel Peace Prize by trying to revive a U.S.-led Middle East peace process that has been all but abandoned since the U.S. Supreme Court gave W. the Oval Office. Now he's trying to get the Israelis and Palestinians to forge a peace treaty in time to make the Republicans look better on Election Day 2008. With Rove gone, I'm not sure who is giving George advice. But, placing his Peace Prize hopes on a political quagmire as impossible to navigate as the one he created in Iraq is a little like rearranging furniture on the Titanic.

I'd love for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to be resolved. But, if George wants a meaningful legacy by actually accomplishing something all he needs to do is turn his attention to the millions of people living in his own country who are without rights, who are victims of hate crimes, who have families that are considered second class.

All George needs to do is pro-actively turn his attention to his country's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. By doing so, he would create a legacy that all commanders in chief desire—a legacy built on actions that may at first be seen as controversial but in the end were considered by the majority of the country as the absolute right thing to do.

Right off the bat, George could make history by telling both houses of Congress to pull The Matthew Shepard Act, also known as the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act, out of a defense reauthorization package and to send the bill to his desk as a stand alone piece because he was going to sign it into law.

The bill is needed more than ever. Earlier this month, the Federal Bureau of Investigation released its 2006 Hate Crime Statistics. The findings are frightening—hate crimes of all kinds increased eight percent last year. Those committed based on sexual orientation are the third most common—right behind race and religion—comprising 16 percent of all hate crimes. That's an increase of two percent from 2005.

The Matthew Shepard Act only needs George's signature in order to expand the current law to include hate crimes based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

This weekend, George could walk out on the National Mall and take in the enormity of the 12,000 U.S. flags that will be placed there by a coalition of national LGBT organizations. The flags are a tribute to the 12,000 LGBT service personnel who have been thrown out of the armed forces since the failed "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy has gone into effect—the 14th anniversary of which is tomorrow, Friday, November 30th. George could then call on Congress to repeal the bill and do all he can to make it happen.

Next, a simple phone call to openly gay Congressman Barney Frank. "Barney," George would say, "Let's put gender identity back into the Employment Non-Discrimination Act—otherwise I won’t sign it." Then George would act like a real commander in chief and send his army of White House lobbyists to the hill to make sure the bill makes its way through the House and Senate and lands on his desk.

There are also simple things that George could do all by himself. He could issue his own executive order banning discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in the federal workforce and tell Scott Bloch, the right wing henchman and White House Special Counsel, to stop his war against equal protection for LGBT federal workers.

George could take a cue from a great many Fortune 500 companies and with a stroke of his pen extend full domestic partner benefits, including health care and all the other rights and responsibilities granted to straight, married federal employees, to their LGBT counterparts.

George only has a little over 13 months left to retool his reputation as the absolute worst President in our history. Only doing something cutting edge, acting outside his constrained box, taking a risk that will actually be good for the country can redefine his presidency. In 50 years, being known as the most gay-friendly president would actually help his biographers reinterpret his tenure—look what making trips to China and the former Soviet Union did for Nixon!