The "self-righteous political partnership" is fading away

self-righteous, arrogant, bullying, lying... did i mention grandiose...?

This week Mr Bush's popularity drooped to 31% in the polls; his party faces a beating and the possible loss of one or both houses of Congress in November's mid-term elections (see article). In Britain meanwhile, much of the Labour Party, which Mr Blair reinvented and led through three consecutive election victories, wants to bundle its saviour into retirement and replace him with Gordon Brown (see article and article).

Neither man is going right away. Mr Blair may hang on for another year. Unpopular lame duck though he may be, Mr Bush will stay in office until January 2009. And the path may not be all downhill: the dysfunctionality of the Democrats may yet let the Republicans limp home in the mid-terms. But an era is plainly drawing to an end. No matter how long they remain in office, the self-confident and often self-righteous political partnership that shaped the West's military response to al-Qaeda and led the march into Afghanistan and Iraq is now faltering.

hello, darkness, my old friend... they're both slipping into the void...

as i've said many, many times, my fondest wish is that bush will not finish his term... god knows, there are enough skeletons in his closet to warrant imprisonment, to say nothing of resignation...

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