The extent to which this White House is so completely different to Bush's - which has just delivered a massive tax cut, 45 per cent of which goes to the richest 1 per cent of US citizens - is underlined by the fact that Bartlett's Republican opponent for the presidency is so obviously based on Dubya. He is a dumb, folksy southern governor who is told by Bartlett, "I don't mind that you don't know much, but you've turned knowing nothing into a kind of Zen thing." Someone needs to let this Brit in on the secret . . . not even the liberals call Bush stupid anymore. The preferred adjective on the hard left is now 'evil'.