Let Them Eat Cake

Karl Rove had to personally call Bush last night to inform him that the new Speaker of the House of Representatives would indeed be ordering new drapes for her office. This obscure statement made by a white house reporter for CNN last night made it painfully clear what the country suspected all along - Bush is not the one running our country. He isn't even able to grasp the significance of the electoral returns by himself. Someone else had to do that for him. In this case it was Rove who had to carefully spoon feed him the bad news.

Bush has been telling us for the past two years that being president is 'hard work'. I can only guess that he told Rove last night that he would work harder tomorrow.

Even beyond Bush's catastrophic decision to invade Iraq and proclaim victory after the first five minutes, a disaster by the name of Katrina should haunt Bush for the rest of his life. As the entire world could only stand by and watch in horror as hundreds of lives were swept away, his let them eat cake demeanor set a storm upon his dynasty the likes of which he has never recovered from. Nor have the people of New Orleans.