He left office more than four years ago, and has kept a relatively low profile since that time (a much lower profile than his own predecessor), but George W. Bush still must wield an inordinate amount of power over the federal government and world events. At least that’s what one might think when listening to commentary from the still-strong legion of Bush bashers.
James Lileks mocks the anti-Bush crowd in the pages of the latest National Review.
If scientists discover that there is sufficient mass in the universe to slow its expansion and eventually cause all matter to collapse into one infinitely hot point in a hundred billion years, it will be Bush’s fault.
That’s just one of the things we’ve learned in the run-up to the Syrian stand-down, or whatever happens between the time this column is submitted and the time it ends up in your hands. It’s possible that Putin will float something that defuses the situation — say, Syria pretends to hand over its chemical weapons and the U.S. mothballs a carrier group. You’d like to think the president would say no. You fear he’d put his hand over the receiver and ask an aide, “Hey, how many of those do we have?”
Anyway, it’s Bush’s fault because he made the public war-weary.
