GWB = LBJ

With a twist of substance abuse psychoanalyzing

Frank Rich is insightful enough to point this out in his Aug. 14 New York Times column.

The approval rate for Mr. Bush’s handling of Iraq plunged to 34 percent in last weekend’s Newsweek poll — a match for the 32 percent that approved L.B.J.'s handling of Vietnam in early March 1968.

But, there’s really no comparison.

Despite his crudeness, boorishness, and almost Kennedy-esque level of skirt-chasing, nonetheless, LBJ was an adult, and acted like one, in many ways.

Whereas, when you watch W, if you come from where I’m at, when something goes wrong for him, he gives the impression of being a 6-year-old kid about to break into a major pout.

Of course, grownups who remain stuck in the pouting 6-year-old stage often do so to the accompaniment of alcohol and/or drug addiction.

That, in turn, might shed more light on just what Shrub was doing at Houston’s Project PULL in the summer of 1972.