Well, the Plame thing is really getting picked up by a lot of people. Billmon has a great take on it: it looks a lot like a coup, honestly. The CIA is fighting the White House using the Justice Department.
Once, the Economist apologized for implying that Bush was actually elected, and noted that he was appointed, given that the election was too close to call. Today, an editorial there apologizes for defending any of the Bush team’s economic policies:
Underlying some of this column’s cheer these few weeks past has been an assumption that President George Bush and his administration were not as stupid, short-sighted, parochial and economically illiterate as they sometimes appear. Buttonwood now realises that this was a mistake and retracts this view as hopelessly optimistic and naive. Over the past couple of weeks, the risks to the world economy and financial markets everywhere have risen as the full force of their economic myopia has visited itself on the world stage.
Secretly Ironic 