Partisan-in-chief GEORGE BUSH likes to pretend that he is above party politics: just a regular guy trying to do his best for the country. He has always made a great to-do about reaching across party lines: remember how he wooed Ted Kennedy over education reform. And he takes every opportunity to escape from Washington's partisan bickering for the bracing common sense of his Texas ranch. Don't believe a word of it. Mr Bush is as partisan a president as America has had. The laid-back Mr Bush is, in fact, a whirlwind of partisan energy. He has spent more time...