How Bush Can Save Bush

Now Mr. Bush is in the first political crisis of his presidency, a crisis unusual, even perhaps unprecedented, in modern American politics, in that his own side has risen up and declared it no longer sees him as one of them. (It is comparable to what happened to Margaret Thatcher in 1990, when Conservative Party members turned on her. That rebellion was more personal than policy-based, but an old rule of politics pertains in both cases: Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.)

Peggy Noonan

This piece is overly maudlin, even for Peggy Noonan, but I found it interesting. I think it constitutes a last warning to Bush from the right. He has an awfully long time to stew in the lame-duck sauce. Maybe he'll take Noonan's advice, but I'm not holding my breath.