Dumbing down

Psychotic Patriot supplied this graphic ... uh, graphic to accompany one of assrocket's more infamous statements of yore:

It must be very strange to be President Bush. A man of extraordinary vision and brilliance approaching to genius, he can't get anyone to notice. He is like a great painter or musician who is ahead of his time, and who unveils one masterpiece after another to a reception that, when not bored, is hostile.

Indeed, Bush appears to be nothing but a political impresssionist, relying as he has on image rather than ability. But there Israeli/Lebanon conflict has caused some ire in the fetid swamps of what now appears to be a moribund right wing blogostan. There is now some definite conflict within Powerline's power structure as paly Paul Mirengoff has this to offer regarding the UN cease-fire:

Over at NRO's corner, John Podhoretz contends that this would mean the end of the Olmert government. I'm tempted to suggest that our government, having seemingly lost its will to oppose (or even to let others oppose) our deadliest enemies, deserves the same fate.

From genius to chump in just a few short months. How does that happen? Maybe George has been hiding in the basement of the West Wing, gulping buckets of lead paint, his brilliance now all but washed away. What a shame.