Lexington displays Bush hatred, again

Continuing a pattern, The Economist's Lexington columnist devotes the entire column this week to Bush bashing. Everything Bush does is wrong and is done for the wrong reason according to Lexington. The "bipartisan stimulus package" was put together without White House involvement, Lexington says. Wrong. It was negotiated by Bush's Treasury Secretary, Henry Paulson, with House Democrats and Republicans. Bush isn't important to the "surge" in Iraq, Lexington argues. Wrong, there would be no "surge" without Bush.

Lexington ridicules Bush's "war on pork-barrel spending." Bush has promised to veto any bills Congress sends him that don't meet his conditions. How does Lexington expect Democrats will get around that?