Dubya "Decides" To Run For Cover

In today’s New York Times, Sheryl Gay Stolberg does some more “by the numbers” reporting on Dubya “win(ning) on energy, children’s health and spending bills,” a claim I won’t contest because of the appalling failure of the Democratic leadership to stand up to George W. Milhous Bush.

However, I will defend Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid somewhat for this…

Mr. Bush likes to say his relations with Democrats are cordial. Just last week, he played host to members of Congress at the White House’s annual black-tie Christmas ball.

But munching on crab cakes and sipping spiced eggnog are not the same thing as hashing out policy, something Mr. Bush, who prefers delegating over details, is loath to do. At a ceremony in the Capitol for the Dalai Lama last month, Ms. Pelosi, the House speaker, and Mr. Reid, the Senate Democratic leader, buttonholed Mr. Bush and asked to meet to discuss their differences on children’s health.

He told them their aides should talk to his health secretary instead.

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“Bush doesn’t like the legislative branch — he never did, and it shows,” said James A. Thurber, director of the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies at American University. “He’s taken a C.E.O. approach to the Hill, which is offensive because people on the Hill want to be collaborators.”

I would remind this cretin (President Numbskull, I mean) of the fact that his oath of office compels him to abide by the Constitution, which calls for the legislative branch to write the laws and the executive to “faithfully execute” them (“collaborators,” you might say), but anyone who hasn’t figured out long ago that this life form has no interest in abiding by the will of our founders must be living on another planet (or in the rural South).

(Water wet, sky blue stuff, I know, but it’s all part of the infamous record…).