Bored With Bush

I feel fully justified in calling this a shit of a day. It has rained incessantly and with dyke-hardness for most of the night. Rain has been the predominant show-pony in this inclement weather but wind has striven manfully to match it. In the middle of the meteoric metrological battle has been me—unable to sleep, wrought with civil defence guilt (though in practice it is nothing like a civil defence emergency) and musing on…life without George Bush. I am not concerned for Fryday; there plenty of other targets and to be honest I am bored with Bush. The world is bored with Bush. The danger of the depraved which gave certain edginess to his presidency is long gone. To call President Bush’s run-down (literally) to the next election as a lame-duck presidency is to do an injustice to both the disabled and the ducks—he is less than both. There is nothing left, or is there? I remember thinking at the height of the Watergate scandal, when we had all long-since ceased to take a prurient interest and all hoped it would end, that President Nixon might go out in a blaze of inglory in a vain desire to leave us more of a legacy than a scandal-wracked presidency. He didn’t, though the shot of him about to board the helicopter, with two arms outstretched, was probably the biggest “finger” to the world we have yet seen. I know another politician who will likely do the same soon, but with subtlety and characteristic servitude. President Bush is not that politician, but will he make a grand statement, as I feared Nixon would? No. President Bush hasn’t got it within him. In my opinion and based on his recent disappearance he is a shell without power. His cabinet is gone, his senate is gone, his congress has gone, his credibility—well, that was never there. He is still Commander in Chief but the heart has I think been taken out the military—they will no longer fight the President’s and, obliquely, God’s crusades. So, fear not: there is nothing to fear from Bush in these last years—he is no Muldoon or Clark—he is man without legacy other than to be the most forgotten President since Cleveland. And like Cleveland and Nixon and all other unassisinated presidents before him, Bush will quietly retire and found his presidential library. The difference with Bush is that for all its power and status a Bible makes for a very small library indeed.

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