Bush: Of Mojo and Macbeth

George Bush has clearly lost his mojo. The swaggering victor who just nine months ago was ready to spin his three-percent win into a mandate now can't even get his pal Harriet's nomination out of the starting gate. And odds are very high the Miers fiasco won't be close to the worst news the White House gets this week.


Thursday morning's L.A. Times lays out how the White House is planning to manage things after the Plamegate indictments hit the fan. Among the damage control plans: roll out a flurry of proposals on spending restraint, tax reform, and immigration, and take another crack at resolving the Israel-Palestine conflict (Nothing like jump-starting a stymied peace process to take the public's mind off administration big shots being indicted!)
Former Reagan chief of staff Ken Duberstein helpfully suggests Bush "do some big things": "You can try for breakthroughs on North Korea, on Iran. I think he can do tax reform, tax simplification. I think he can do something big on energy. He can do something on Medicare and Medicaid. He has to do something on the spending side. He needs to be addressing immigration."

Hey, why not have W cure cancer while he's at it?