Fans of Science Fiction or Fantasy may be familiar with Merlin the Wizard, who lived his life backwards through time...
Maybe this is Bush... If you were living backwards in time, Iraq would look like a hotbed of terrorism before the Sept 11th attacks.
If Bush gets his Social Security changes pushed through, and Social Security indeed gets to the crisis stage, then from a backwards in time perspective, he can be the saviour of Social Security.
I've yet to find an issue where this doesn't seem appropriate. Abortion, check (ie more now then before). Poverty, check.
Merlin...