Bush Outsmarts Dems Again

For an idiot, George W. Bush sure seems to be better at the political game then congressional Democrats. This time he's beating them on the budget:

President Bush seems to have House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in a full nelson.

Just a year after Democrats charged into power on Capitol Hill against a Republican president with bottom-scraping poll numbers and a soured war, it's the Democrats who are crying uncle in the biggest budget confrontation since the 1995 government shutdown.

...Democrats are struggling even to pass a middle-class tax cut under the banner of fiscal responsibility. A House plan to shield 21 million mainly Democratic households from the alternative minimum tax, and offset the lost revenue with higher taxes on Wall Street, appears to be unraveling. If it does, so does the vaunted "pay as you go" rule that Pelosi pledged would re-establish fiscal responsibility in Washington after years of rampant Republican borrowing.

Bewildered Democrats have concluded that Republicans simply want them to fail.

That last line is amusing considering the Democrats have been pulling for our military efforts to fail since approximately March of 2003 on the eve of the Iraq invasion. Maybe now they know a bit how it feels.

Bush is a lame duck with microscopic approval ratings and a facing a hostile Congress yet still continues to smack the donks at every opportunity. Yet another example of expert leadership by Speaker Pelosi and Senator Reid. With GOP veterans retiring in droves, we may have to face an even longer period of time deal with their inadequate lead.