WITH HIS APPROVAL NUMBERS

sliding, Bush goes on television to reassure the nation. I have no idea what the Bushites plan to accomplish with lines like this one: "History is moving, and it will tend toward hope or tend toward tragedy..."

Isn't that like saying, "Hell, anything could happen"? Here's an idea: If Bush's handlers had any clue at all, they'd simply (once again) declare victory inIraq, pull out all the U.S. troops and come home, taking the number campaign issue right off the table.

In honor of this brilliant Bush speech, I point the reader to a relatively new "The Top Ten Conservative Idiots" list, which I missed and you may have, too. We don't agree with the entire list, but it sure is fun to take shots at the current players in the conservative movement. Will Bush's speech writers make the list next time?