HuffPo: "A year from now he will finally have pulled himself out of Iraq and back to Crawford."

[Amerigo Vespucci]

What Bush Will Not Say Tonight

Posted September 13, 2007 | 04:22 PM (EST)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/trey-ellis/what-bush-will-not-say-to_b_64324.html

The grotesque absurdity of this war, the Groundhog Day feeling that everything said or written about the war today was said or written three years ago, has taken the term "Kafka-esque" to unimagined new levels.

What is clear is that no matter how he tries to finesse it tonight, the interests of George Bush are not at all the same as the interests of anyone else: not the opposition party, not his own party, not the American or Iraqi people, not the globe. In this intractable quagmire he is the only one who is starting to see some daylight. A little over a year from now he will finally, finally, have pulled himself out of Iraq and back to Crawford.

This is a guy who has never worked hard in his life. If an easy answer wasn't immediately apparent he just skipped that question and moved on to the next.

That is why in his mind he has already pulled up stakes. A little over a year from now he will be able to say, in the immortal words of Freddie Prinze back on the old show Chico and the Man, "'snot my job, man." How on earth can his fellow Republicans be so stupid as to follow him into retirement? Are they just like him? Do they all just want to play golf for the rest of their days?