Boy George Still Out of It. Thinks War Romantic & Envies Real Soldiers While Economy Tanks & Dead Continue To Pile Up In Iraq.

“Everyone here is flummoxed about why the president is in such a fine mood. The dollar's crumpling, the recession's thundering, the Dow's bungee-jumping and the world's disapproving, yet George Bush has turned into Gene Kelly, tap dancing and singing in a one-man review called ‘The Most Happy Fella.’ . . . [Bush said] ‘You know, I guess the best way to describe government policy is like a person trying to drive a car in a rough patch,’ he said. ‘If you ever get stuck in a situation like that, you know full well it's important not to overcorrect, because when you overcorrect you end up in the ditch.’ Dude, you're already in the ditch. Boy George crashed the family station wagon into the globe and now the global economy. Yet the more terrified Americans get, the more bizarrely carefree he seems. The former oilman reacted with cocky ignorance a couple of weeks ago when a reporter informed him that gas was barreling toward $4 a gallon. . . .Wearing a cowboy hat, he warbled a comic Western ditty at the Gridiron Dinner a week ago - alluding to Scooter Libby's conviction, Saudis getting richer from our oil-guzzling, Brownie's dismal Katrina performance, and Dick Cheney's winsome habit of withholding documents. ... ‘I think 2008 is going to be a fabulous year for the Republican Party!’ he said, sounding like Rachael Ray sprinkling paprika on goulash. That must have been news to House Republicans, who have no money, just lost the seat held by their former speaker, and are hemorrhaging incumbents as they head into a campaign marked by an incipient recession and an unpopular war. If only they could see things as the president does. Bush, who used his family connections to avoid Vietnam, told troops serving in Afghanistan on Thursday that he is ‘a little envious’ of their adventure there, saying it was ‘in some ways romantic.’" from Soft Shoe in Hard Times By MAUREEN DOWD