During the past three-and-half years that the incessantly besieged Mills-Mahama rag-tag team of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) ruled the roost, the London-based former ambassador to the United States was to be heard preening himself and calling the now-late President John Evans Atta-Mills an irreparably damaged political good of a leader who could never be expected to improve upon former President John Agyekum-Kufuor�s remarkable development of the country�s economy.