CNN's White House Correspondent John King: Bush is in a Box [View All]

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Appearing opposite Wolf Blitzer and Candy Crowley, he just elegantly summarized the way that the President is boxed in on every one of these issues. To summarize, here's what he told Wolf, while Candy just simmered silently:

* Bush can't blame the Democrats for Meirs' failed nomination, because the Democrats held their fire and let the Republicans doom Bush's pick.

* Bush can't blame God for the hurricanes he was slow to respond to.

* Bush can't blame anyone but himself for the Iraq War. It's his war, his alone, and he has to take responsibility for it.

* Bush can't blame Democrats for the imminent indictments of his senior staff, since Patrick Fitzgerald is not a partisan "Independent Counsel" as Ken Starr clearly was, and since the CIA pursued the investigation, not the Democrats.

* Bush can't blame Patrick Fitzgerald, since he's on the record having praised him, and since he was appointed by Bush loyalist John Ashcroft*.

John King ended this rather perfect list by saying, "The President is on his own on almost every political level now, he has completely boxed himself in, and he has nobody to blame but himself."

* DUer tk2kewl offers one minor correction for John King: Deputy AG Comney appointed Fitz after Ashcroft recused himself from doing so.