Bored by Bush

"Bush Administration - Friday" is today at South by Southwest. It is another tough writing day for me. It will be the 125th post I have done on the subject. And it is very easy to get bored with writing about OCP (our current president). It would be easy to see this glass as half-full, becoming too much at ease with the current political situation. But that would be risky. Here are some of the newsworthy reasons why:

• OCP is egocentric - Politico's Mike Allen's take on yesterday's Bush/Blair news conference.


• OCP has no new ideas - Karl Eric Stromsta writes an article on the cost of illegal immegration in Yahoo! News.


• OCP is not accountable - The Huffington Post gives an example contrasting OCP with Paris Hilton.


• OCP is predictable - Washington Post story on Wolfowitz: first support for a failed appointee, then ditching him.


• OCP in neither articulate nor bright - see About.com's "Bushisms."


• OCP is a lame duck - The Christian Science Monitor discusses "Bush's lame-duck advantage."


• OCP is mean-spirited - Politico's David Baumann discusses the administration's budget priorities.
• OCP is not very smart - Eric Alterman is bored, too.


• OCP is a "magical" thinker. - Wikipedia defines this as "non-scientific causal reasoning or superstition."
• OCP plays out military fantasies - A Washington Post story describes George Tenet's new book about the run-up to the war in Iraq.


• OCP has different values than mine - Reuters reports on current views about politics held by the Halliburton Company.


• OCP is untrustworthy - The New York Times discusses possible compromises between OCP and Congress over funding the war in Iraq.


• OCP is incredibly stubborn - Democrats will try to apply pressure regarding OCP's support of Alberto Gonzales, from Yahoo! News.


• OCP acts outside the law - the Washington Post points out in this stinging editorial.

Because OCP is so very boring, it is dangerous to get lulled into complacency by reading or listening to what is currently in the news about him. Mr. Bush still has the capacity to do harm to us and to the nation. We must never forget that as long as he remains in office. I believe the glass is half-empty, rather than half-full.

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