When Presidents Attack

(Source: Business Week)

The shock and awe attack of the American electorate on the Republican party continues to sink in. While many architects (translation: war criminals) of the ill-fated Dubya Land foray into Mesopotamia are dealing with blisters from all of the backstabbing this week (see Vanity Fair's fantastic piece on Perle, Frum, et al. wailing at the real reasons for the Bush Administration's failure to organize a one-cart funeral, let alone a "war in error"), some Bush cultists are going the other way.

In fact, one of the National Review's leading "conservatives" is barrelling down the Yellow Brick Road of John J. Rambo, Lone Wolf, in offering suggestions as to "How Bush Should Handle Loss," and show the Democrats (hell, how about the whole world) he's still boss. Hint: Jonah Goldberg's idea of reasserting presidential authority involves a sweat lodge, a bowie knife, and a still-beating heart of a black bear.

Lorne Greene's New Wilderness, the National Review is not. But damn, it makes for funny reading now that such pundits have about as much influence over the American political scene as Kevin Federline has over his own sucking.