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May 23, 2005 Issue
Copyright © 2005 The American Conservative

Bushism Imperiled

by Patrick J. Buchanan


Six months after a re-election that strengthened his forces in both houses and left Democrats wondering whether they had irretrievably lost Middle America, George W. Bush is mired in a Slough of Despond.

The salad days of the second Inaugural, the Iraqi election, and State of the Union are receding into memory, as his approval rating sinks to the lowest depths of his presidency. It is hard to see what turns it around. As Claudius lamented in Hamlet, “when troubles come they come not single spies but in battalions.�

At this writing, it is 50-50 the president can save John Bolton, his nominee to be UN ambassador, and the media wolf pack is in full howl in pursuit of Tom DeLay. Even if Bolton survives and DeLay eludes his media pursuers and ethics committee and Justice investigators, Bush is bleeding from both battles.


But it is on the great issuesâ€â€