Mauren Dowd: Bush Has "Jumped the Couch"

[PalJoey]

Posted: 8/27/05 at 11:59pm

Brilliant. Bush has become as much of a joke as Tom Cruise.

Only much, much, much more dangerous.

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Op-Ed Columnist
Bike-Deep in the Big Muddy

By MAUREEN DOWD
Published: August 27, 2005

WASHINGTON

W. has jumped the couch.

Not fallen off the couch, as he did when he choked on that pretzel.

Jumped it.

According to UrbanDictionary.com, "jump the couch" has now become slang for "a defining moment when you know someone has gone off the deep end. Inspired by Tom Cruise's recent behavior on 'Oprah.' Also see 'jump the shark.' "

The former stateside National Guardsman who was sometimes M.I.A. jumped the shark by landing on that "Mission Accomplished" carrier. (With Tom Cruise cockiness.)

Then, as president, he jumped the couch by pedaling through the guns of August - the growing carnage and chaos in Iraq and Afghanistan.

He did do a few minutes of work this month, calling a Shiite leader in Baghdad a few days ago to lobby him to reach a consensus with the Sunnis, so Iraq doesn't crack apart. But the Shiites and Kurds ignored the president and skewered the Sunnis.

Iraq, it turns out, is the one branch of American government that the Republicans don't control. ...
Bike-Deep in the Big Muddy

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 12:05am

I must repeat the quote:

Iraq, it turns out, is the one branch of American government that the Republicans don't control.

[South Fl Marc]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 12:08am

Brilliant - funny - and scary.