The Dead-ender

Ron Brownstein, columnist for the LA Times, is the epitome of the centrist, wishy-washy, "on-the-other-hand", inside-the-beltway political commentator. However, he comes up with a good insight and tag for Bushie on global warming, stem cell research, and Iraq -- a dead-ender "who refuse[s] to acknowledge that the world around them ha[s] changed". I like it for being so accurate and concise: the dead-ender.

...on stem cells, global warming and Iraq, Bush seems intent on defending the decisions he's made already, even at the price of obstructing a new consensus attempting to form around him. If Bush continues to view standing alone as the highest form of principle, he will never escape the dead end into which he's steered his second term.