I mean, he’s already in Zimbabwe.

Bill Kristol has an interesting, but to me an ahistorical piece in the latest Weekly Standard on how the Bush administration must somehow “return” to its first-term partisan roots:

…contrary to the media myth that Bush has been uncompromising and ideological, the strategy that the president has pursued for most of 2005 has been an attempt at accommodation. It has reflected a hope that he could move beyond the polarization of the 2004 campaign and appeal to the middle. It’s understandable that Bush would be tempted by such a strategy: Who wants to go down in history as a polarizing president? But the strategy has been a mistake.

“…for most of 2005”? I have to ask–on what planet was he during the first Bush term? Bush has been kissing up to the mushy middle since his first presidential campaign, when he proclaimed himself a “compassionate” (read, big-government) conservative. He led a politically-correct war on “terror,” in which he refused, until recently, to even recognize it as a war against radical Islamists. He has retained Norm Mineta at the Department of Transportation, who continues to fight sensible airline security policy, waging guerilla bureaucratic warfare against armed pilots, refusing to profile, and perpetuating idiotic confiscations of nose-hair trimmers. He tried to buy the union vote with the steel tariffs, in defiance of free-market principles and against the interests of manufacturers of items with steel content, and the consumers who purchase them. His administration has been weak on the Second Amendment, and even weaker on the First, with his signing of a campaign-finance bill that he said prior to the act was unconstutional, thus being derelict in his duty to defend the Constitution, all to placate the so-called “moderates” and McCain wing of both the Republican and Democrat parties.

Between the 2000 election and the 2004 election, Rove became the master of polarization politics. And now, with this year’s ill-fated experiment in trying to govern from the middle surely over, polarization along ideological and party lines is a fact of life. Ethics classes won’t ameliorate Democratic hostility to Bush. Nor will firing Rove.

Nor will keeping a politically correct transportation secretary, or saying that “when someone hurts, the government has to move,” or expanding entitlement programs, or nominating cronies without a paper trail to the Supreme Court, or completely dismantling the notion that the Republican Party has any further interest in smaller government. But these are not new–they’ve been going on since the campaign in 2000. The notion that Bush has ever been some kind of extreme right-wing conservative is laughable to anyone but the hard left (whose views, sadly, have permeated the media). If Bill Kristol’s advice is for him to become more of a Reagan conservative, it’s good advice, but it’s advice that he needed five years ago.

John McCain says that he has anger management issues. He also has adherence-to-the-Bill-of-Rights issues, but he won’t admit to that.

John McCain says that he has anger management issues. He also has adherence-to-the-Bill-of-Rights issues, but he won’t admit to that.

John McCain says that he has anger management issues. He also has adherence-to-the-Bill-of-Rights issues, but he won’t admit to that.

I don’t know if it has anything to do with the Eurointafada, but support for the union is at an all-time low:

Particular dismay with the EU was found in Britain, where a majority

From Bubba:

He told us during a Q&A segment that one of the hardest parts of his 8 years was not being able to find bin Laden although his administration looked desperately for him.

Like when he turned down the Sudanese when they offered him up on a platter?

I think that Bill Clinton looked about as hard for bin Laden as OJ did for the real killers.

Read the whole thing–there’s disgustingly more.

The supposedly suicidal Marilyn Monroe didn’t seem to be in such a hurry to shuffle off this mortal coil:

June DiMaggio tells the magazine that her mother, Lee, who was the last person to speak to Monroe, recalls that Monroe screamed and dropped the phone on the night she died. June says her mother believed that more than one person entered Monroe

The supposedly suicidal Marilyn Monroe didn’t seem to be in such a hurry to shuffle off this mortal coil:

June DiMaggio tells the magazine that her mother, Lee, who was the last person to speak to Monroe, recalls that Monroe screamed and dropped the phone on the night she died. June says her mother believed that more than one person entered Monroe

The supposedly suicidal Marilyn Monroe didn’t seem to be in such a hurry to shuffle off this mortal coil:

June DiMaggio tells the magazine that her mother, Lee, who was the last person to speak to Monroe, recalls that Monroe screamed and dropped the phone on the night she died. June says her mother believed that more than one person entered Monroe