CNN: Strike two for Bush
Novak starts off well:
Supporters of the president were surprised that he would ask to be questioned by Tim Russert. What flabbergasted them was the absence of any plan to use this event to stop being the target as the 2004 campaign began.
This failure was Strike Two for President Bush. Strike One was his humdrum State of the Union address. Fortunately for the president, this is not baseball where three strikes are out.
But by the end of the column he degenerates into the Republican alternative reality where up is down and the US economy is doing fabulously well:
It seems difficult for an incumbent president to lose amid economic recovery, but George W. Bush is showing it might be possible.
Are Republicans (and I count Novak in this category) worried about Dubya's performance of late...?