Letters to the Editor
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He's lucky he followed Clinton
President Bush may be the luckiest man alive: not only does he attain the highest office in the land by skating towards it on the skimpiest of resumes, but he is placed there by a one-vote majority of the Supreme Court. He is protected by various media who like his fraternity-level bestowal of nicknames and backslapping demeanor. His catastrophic administration goes from failure to failure, abetted by journalists who weekly prove that they have no ear for what Americans are feeling and thinking.
To top it off, his offenses surely meet the standard of high crimes and misdemeanors. Because, however, the nation went through the charade perpetrated by the Republicans barely a decade ago, we really have no taste for it again (or so think our endo-Beltway mandarins -- who have yet to do the necessary work of putting the whole shameful spectacle of 1998 into perspective). That they are as wrong about this as they were about how avid we were for Clinton's impeachment is indicative how inept they are and how ill-served we are. Even should the Congress manage to rouse itself, it will be endlessly spun as Democratic payback, signifying nothing but a little muscle-flexing. Once again, George W Bush, doomed to be deemed and damned as one of our worst presidents, escapes the harsh comeuppance in the short run.