Bush takes his midterms

Problem is, he can't hire some ringer to take 'em for him like at Yale.

Bush's Midterm Challenge

President Bush's State of the Union address on Tuesday night marks the opening of a midterm election year eagerly anticipated by Democrats and fraught with worries for Republicans, whose hopes in November may depend in large part on how successfully Bush can turn around his troubled presidency.

After his reelection victory in 2004, Bush often pointed out that he would never again be on a ballot as a candidate. But the coming year in many ways represents another national campaign for the president, aimed at preserving the gains his party has made in the past five years, as well as rehabilitating a reputation that has come under brutal assault from the opposition in recent months.

Whatever Dubya has to say at the SOTU, you can be sure there will be nothing new. There will be no new ideas, no bold agendas, none of that "vision thing." And, if the Democrats have ball one between them all, they will get up as one man (or woman) and walk out as soon as the preznit' says anything remotely partisan. That'll steal whatever thunder he has left and turn him into a blinking, twitching, sniveling spoiled brat.

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