Desperate Times

For instance, Bush's now-stock call-and-response exercise intentionally obscures the actual debate over warrantless surveillance program -- which is that Democrats want the executive branch to get court permission for wiretaps, to make sure they are being conducted for legitimate reasons.

But here's Bush:

"When it comes to listening in on the terrorists, what's the Democrats' answer?

"AUDIENCE: Just say no!"

Bush and Hannity

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Thomas M. DeFrank writes in the New York Daily News: "Sounding like a politician who fears the worst, President Bush declared yesterday he doesn't plan to be a lame duck no matter how next week's elections turn out.

"Bush said he understands that the day after the elections 'a lot of people [will be] trying to get me to become a political consultant.

"'What I want people to know in Congress, and more particularly at home and around the world, is that I'm going to be President up until the very last day, and I've got a lot to do,' he asserted.

"'I promise you I'm going to sprint to the finish,' he told Sean Hannity."

Bush's interview with Hannity is worth watching simply as a spectacle of sycophancy.

Here's a sample question:

"HANNITY: Let's talk about the nature of fighting the war here. We've got political disagreements. Nancy Pelosi, the woman who'd love to be speaker, she's against the NSA surveillance program.

"BUSH: Yes.