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Bush's Broken Political Antenna
In the face of growing public discontent with his policies, Bush is sounding airy and out of touch
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We live in riotous times. The global and national supplies of
rationality seem dangerously depleted. Two weeks ago, there was the
media riot over Vice President Dick Cheney's hunting accident. Last
week there was a bipartisan congressional riot over the Bush
Administration's approval of a deal to transfer the management of six
U.S. ports from a British company to one owned by the United Arab
Emirates. And then there is the constant, combustible throb of
Islamic unrest, most recently the intramural explosion of Iraq's Sunnis and
Shi'ites, which has devastated the possibility that...