[sageb1]

“For better of worse, it is very unlikely that the Brown/Bush relationship is going to go through the baptism of fire and therefore be joined together at the hip like the Blair/Bush relationship was.”

This is going to be an absolute horror.

[bajabaja]

This is going to be an absolute horror.

Not to be grim, but to be realistic, I think that the British government will be forced back into the "American embrace" by our common foes. And the left's US contingent will be quieted for a while, too; that is the way it always plays out -- the aggressor will push until something somewhere causes the tolerant host to assert its own interest.