President Bush: I Applaud You.

I know a lot of progressives are appropriately angry at the outrageous rhetoric unleashed by President Bush at the Knesset earlier today.

For example, we know that Joe Biden is somewhat displeased by it.

My friends (yes, I used this intentionally)...I believe we are looking at this the wrong way. I think we should be CHEERING this latest tantrum by the President. Hell, I think the FEC should consider it a f***ing in-kind contribution to the Obama campaign.

This guy is already the most unloved president in modern American history. No other leader has managed to stay this hated...for this long.

A prudent president, confronted with his own irrelevance, would maintain the lowest of profiles, and count the days to retirement.

But, no...not our dear leader. The man in intent on going to his forced retirement in a blaze of self-delusional, hyperpartisan glory.

And mark my words, he is going to take John McCain and the entire Republican Party with him.

So, allow me to be the iconoclast. I say to you, Mr. President--STAY THE M-F'IN COURSE, SIR!!

Accuse the Democrats, and Senator Obama by implication, of appeasement. Dust off the "Defeat-o-crats" label and take it out for a walk. Make this election about our vision for the world, and how it deviates from your own.

Pretty please, Mr. President, stay engaged in this election to the greatest extent possible.

Because if you do, we are 99.9% of the way home.

Everytime you open your mouth, you send a few thousand more voters over to our side. The longer you make a spectacle of yourself, the better it is for the Democratic Party. You have become the gift that keeps on giving.

IL-14th...ka-ching!!

LA-06th...thank you very much!!

MS-01st...what a pleasant surprise!!

Rather than condemn Bush, we should do the only appropriate thing--we should laugh at him. He is putting the entire GOP at the precipice of total political irrelevance.

The GOP was already afraid of dumping an additional twenty seats in the House. Bush's incessant chatter could make it forty. Why not a filibuster-proof majority, instead of mere 2-to-4 seat gain? This President, by interjecting himself so fully into the public conversation, is keeping the GOP brand name exactly where we need it.

Circling the freaking drain.

So, in the words of Jack Buck, pardon me while I stand and applaud. You are the key to a Democratic victory in November, Mr. President.

And it sure seems like you are not going to let us down.