State of the Lame Duck

Beaten in Iraq and beaten at the polls, President Bush looked beaten in his speech last night.


His Iraq policy is such a disaster – eight Republican Senators, including Virginia’s John Warner, have cut and run – that he was forced to talk about domestic issues. And his tepid speech served up tepid ideas.


I’m struck by the eerie mirror image between Bush 43 and Bush 41 – or maybe more of a photographic negative:



  • Bush 41 won his war in Iraq, then failed to address domestic issues and lost his presidency.


  • Bush 43 is losing his war, so he flails at domestic issues and is losing his presidency.

The political chickens have simply come home to rest. The Education President (43, that is) turned himself into the Terror-Fighting President for ideological and political reasons, not for national-security reasons. But his gamble failed.


Now it’s too late to reshuffle the deck.


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State of the Lame Duck

Beaten in Iraq and beaten at the polls, President Bush looked beaten in his speech last night.


His Iraq policy is such a disaster – eight Republican Senators, including Virginia’s John Warner, have cut and run – that he was forced to talk about domestic issues. And his tepid speech served up tepid ideas.


I’m struck by the eerie mirror image between Bush 43 and Bush 41 – or maybe more of a photographic negative:



  • Bush 41 won his war in Iraq, then failed to address domestic issues and lost his presidency.


  • Bush 43 is losing his war, so he flails at domestic issues and is losing his presidency.

The political chickens have simply come home to rest. The Education President (43, that is) turned himself into the Terror-Fighting President for ideological and political reasons, not for national-security reasons. But his gamble failed.


Now it’s too late to reshuffle the deck.


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