Advice to Bush: Quit While You're Ahead (Gene Lyons)

[hadrons]

I'm having trouble finding the link:

Advice to Bush: Quit While You're Ahead

Shortly before 9/11, a worldly-wise philospher on the seacoast of Maine made me a prediction. "Remember where you heard it," he said. "George W. Bush will never run for a second term. He'll resign the presidency. It's his life story: his father's friends get him a job he doesn't deserve, he screws it up, somebody else takes the blame, he quits, then father's friends buy him a bigger job he doesn't deserve and he does it all over again."

It's true the man has always failed upward. Bush even messed up his cushiest job ever, as Texas Rangers' "owner." In reality, he was like a glorified Wal-Mart greeter, a minority shareholder playing tycoon in the box seats. Even so, he had a role in the worst trade of the 1990s, sending Sammy Sosa to Chicago for the equivalent of $49.95 and a litter of kittens. As a happy Cubs fan, perhaps I should show more gratitude.

The obvious problem with predicting his resignation, however, is that there are no bigger jobs for sale than President of the United States. Bush couldn't quit without admitting abject failure. Unlike Lyndon Baines Johnson, the last Texan in the White House, there's no indication he's got the intestinal fortitude. So I rang up my Down East friend to see if he'd revised the forecast. Returning my call after a hard day of tending his lobster pots, he was even more emphatic.

"Read any newspapers lately?" he asked. "He'll cut and run."

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[Dogmudgeon]

1. Aw, c'mon!

Post the link!

--bkl

[Richardo]

2. Yes! that is a link I want to see...

pwetty pwease?

[rfranklin]

3. Please, dear Lord, let this be so...

Please forgive us and remove the Evil One from our midst.

[flpoljunkie]

4. Here's the link from Bartcop...great article!

http://www.bartcop.com/100103lyons.htm

[AndyTiedye]

6. Imagine Bush*, Cheney, Rove, Wolfowitz, Rumfeld, Ashcroft...

...here

(re-open it just for them)

[RandomKoolzip]

5. "No job bigger than the president?" Howbout CEO of Halliburton?

That's where the REAL power lies.

[OldCurmudgeon]

7. bigger than president? Hmm...

Uh oh, the Pope isn't doing so hot right now. (Joke! i hope...)

[zonmoy]

8. how about the republicans lord and master

the devil.