It’s Bush’s fault!
Exactly! He finally got his Remove One Stripe from Jupiter machine perfected and running.
That explains why he’s been too busy to be seen in public that much.
No, no, no! It’s not Bush’s fault! Or, maybe it is, but, what’s really going on is that Obama is fomenting another crisis through trick photography to make us think the solar system is collapsing and that we needs to spend billions and billions of dollars to prepare for a new onslaught of solar radiation and switch to solar power right away, or we’re all gonna die! OK, so maybe trillions of dollars. What comes after trillions?