GEORGE'S PARLOR GAME

In previous posts I noted how President Bush has been trying to deflect blame for driving our country's reputation and finances into the ground. As Bush increasingly blames others ("Bad intel" from the CIA ... "Wall Street Got Drunk") for his administration's disastrous performance I started thinking about Blind Man's Bluff, the Parlor Game played by elites during the Victorian era.

Blind Man's Bluff is the gentelman's version of "tag" and was played by wealthy men and women of leisure, who had little to do but liked hanging around with each other playing games in parlors (hence the name).



In this spirit, this is how I see George W. Bush playing out the remainder of his presidency. And like the painting above, while President Bush meanders aimlessly looking for someone to tag for his self-inflicted political wounds, he will find fewer and fewer willing to stand by him.

As for the picture ... for my money, I have to think that the kid cowering in the far right corner is Dick Cheney ... McCain is the guy in the middle, on his knees, reaching for the blind man (no doubt, in a room full of deaf people).

- Mark