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George W. Bush, the man who couldn’t be king, keeps insisting he’s relevant…unfortunately, the world just doesn’t seem to agree.

Every week ol’ Dubya does something that he’s sure will give him the legacy he so richly deserves (not to worry, he’ll get it) and every week the event du jour blows up in his face. (Proving not only does he not know general history, but even the specific history of his own administration has escaped him. Everything this guy has done has been an unmitigated disaster.)

A bunch of bad Bush-stuff happened last week. (Let me qualify that; bad Bush stuff happens every week, but it usually happens to us – for a change it happened to him.)

The loss of the Mississippi special election after a big push by the White House. Our president’s ignorant and embarrassing remarks on the floor of the Knesset. And my favorite, old oilman George W’s attempt to get Saudi Arabia to slip us a little cheap gas.

What’s most amusing about this last one are the putative ties between the Bush family and the Saudi Royals. I don’t wanna say they’re close, but there are pictures of Dubya and Crown Prince Abdullah holding hands and playing kissy face, and I heard they went to the Prom together. They visit each other’s countries, and ranches – word is the Crown Prince’s stables are nicer than the entire Crawford compound – and have a long term, intimate relationship.

So when the leader of the most powerful nation on earth went Saudi Arabia last week for a little help with our ballooning oil prices, you knew he’d be greeted with open arms…instead he got the finger.

Politics is one thing, economics another, and Saudi Arabia has no intention of helping American and their buddy Bush out of this particular jam. It’s all supply and demand for them, and gas is too expensive for us to demand more, so they’re not going to pump anymore. They increased production a whopping 3% (mostly for China); they have the capacity to increase it over 20%.

Yeah, it’s good to be the king.

What do you expect – Dubya was a bust in the oil business too.

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