Vast Left-wing Conspiracy

What if George Bush isn't a republican at all? I know he's been registered Republican his entire life, but bear with me here.

George Bush's poll numbers are down as low as they've ever been, hovering near the 35% mark in most polls. Even among conservatives, his numbers have dropped, and many Americans are beginning to doubt whether Bush's leadership is really leadership or just directional stumbling. Sort of like a field sobriety test - we've asked the President to stay on the line, and he's doing just sort of OK at the job.

This lack of popularity, and the Republican Congress's lock step with the President on such issues as national security and domestic policy, are costing Republicans in the polls as well. Democrats will almost without a doubt win more seats in Congress, and have an outside shot at taking control of both houses.

Which brings me to my point - what if this were George W. Bush's plan all along? What if he was hand-selected by the Democrats to screw up SO badly and expose most Congressional Republicans as such idealogues that the country would naturally swing back to the left come election time?

Now, admittedly 9/11 screwed things up for the Dark Leftist Masters. But then the Democratic overlords hinted to Bush that he should invade Iraq. They'd support him at first of course, until they found out he was wrong (a wrongness which they, the Democrats, knew about but also knew the Repubs would believe).

And now they're back on track, and only four years behind schedule....

The Democrats craft a medicare "reform" bill that they knew would completely alienate seniors, and have Bush introduce it while seeming to have created this monstrosity while in the pocket of the the pharmaceutical industry. Then immigration reform. And rampant spending - all of it done with one goal in mind: to crush the Republican Party's hopes of creating a lasting majority in Congress.

And conservatives say we on the left don't have a plan...