Sooner Be Blue

Remember Peggy Noonan, the conservative GOP speech writer? Well, she's worried about the preznit just like everybody else .. and seems to suggest that we just run out the clock for the rest of Bush’s presidency and just hope for the best.

She says other Presidents in great enterprises that are going badly seem to suffer -- Lincoln, LBJ with his head in his hands. Why doesn’t Bush?

From The Wall Street Journal:

American Grit
BY Peggy Noonan
Friday, July 13, 2007

We can't fire the president right now, so we're waiting it out.

It's been a slow week in a hot era. I found myself Thursday watching President Bush's news conference and thinking about what it is about him, real or perceived, that makes people who used to smile at the mention of his name now grit their teeth. I mean what it is apart from the huge and obvious issues on which they might disagree with him.

I'm not referring to what used to be called Bush Derangement Syndrome. That phrase suggested that to passionately dislike the president was to be somewhat unhinged. No one thinks that anymore. I received an email before the news conference from as rock-ribbed a Republican as you can find, a Georgia woman (middle-aged, entrepreneurial) who'd previously supported him. She said she'd had it. "I don't believe a word that comes out of his mouth." I was startled by her vehemence only because she is, as I said, rock-ribbed. Her email reminded me of another, one a friend received some months ago: "I took the W off my car today," it said on the subject line. It sounded like a country western song, like a great lament.[..]"

This president has had terrible calamities (9/11, Iraq, Katrina, etc.) and he should appear to have the weight of the world on his shoulders .. or at least look a little worried.

And yet, he brags about how well he sleeps. He takes more vacation time than any president in history .. and he’s constantly smirking, as if he hasn’t a care in the world.

This was especially true in last week's press conference. He seems to be almost amused, especially when he talks about threats against the US. He's probably smiling because he thinks, "These idiots don’t understand the world the way I do" .. but it comes across as a detached president who smirks at crises.

He has failed time after time all his comfortable life and it never really mattered .. he suffered no consequences that mere mortals would face. His rich politician daddy got him out of scrapes with the law, the military and bad business deals.

Some people say he gets his serenity the old-fashioned way -- through chemistry. Legal of course. Say, anti-depressants. When you stop and think about it, he has had a “What? Me worry?” attitude ever since he took office .. even after 9/11 ...

Or, he may think he has a special entitlement as a Born-Again .. who thinks his thoughts come straight from God.

Maybe God promised him that the Rapture will happen before 1/20/2009.

Naw .. he thinks if he just stalls long enough he'll get to hand the messes he's made over to the next president.....