The next two years of Bush

If I had to make a condensed summary of the Bush presidency, it would go like this:

2000 – 2001: Bush does not very much, panders to base
2001 – 2005: Bush screws up the whole damn world and the universe, with huge popular support/apathy
2005 – 2006: Everyone suddenly realises that Bush is a tool, Republicans lose big time

So what does 2007 – 2008’s entry look like, now that Democrats are in control of Congress?

One possibility: Bush chills out and lets the Democrats have their way on the most popular policy points. When this somehow fails to right all the wrongs in the world, Bush shrugs and says, “We let them have it their way for two years, and their solutions have failed.” People would go back to thinking that Republicans and Democrats are all just the same really; politicians can’t get anything right, blah, blah, blah.

But what will really happen is this:

2007 – 2008: Bush digs in, keeps being Bush, insisting on his own way, vetoing… well, everything.

Just for fun, have you googled ‘Bush threatens veto‘ lately? Check it: everything sensible, he’s agin’ it. He never had to veto a thing for the first six years, and now the veto threats are coming faster than Republican indictments. How did such a baby become president?

This will draw a stark contrast between Democrats, who are attempting to pass enormously popular legislation, and the president, who is trying to veto the whole guacamole. I wonder if there will even be a Republican voter left in 2008.