Lone Ranger Bush; No Silver Bullet (CBSNews.com)

This Against the Grain commentary is written by CBSNews.com's Dick Meyer.
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Presidents trapped in enemy territory can look for help from three sources: allies, propagandists and partisans.

Our man on the white horse has but one ally, Tony Blair, and at this stage of the conflict there's not much the British Prime Minister can do to help Mr. Bush at home, abroad or in Iraq.

Many widely read propagandists in the American media articulated the administration's case for war and occupation better than the administration ever did; many have now gone wobbly.

And the partisans, Congressional Republicans, badly burned after they bought the administration's WMD bill of goods, are deeply wary, especially after Abu Ghraib.

The Lone Ranger is in a tight spot.

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Lone Wolf, Ostritch with his head in the sand, Lonely Boy....amything but Lone Ranger! I watched that show every Sat. AM as a kid. I love him and Tonto. Still do!

the tumbleweed kid who suffers from terminal texas tangle-tongue syndrome?

President: "Well, Colin, it's beginnin' to look like this might be the end of the line for us...."

Powell: "What you mean we, white man?"

force, recruited from the private sector, unaccountable to any local authority, acting under the purview of the Executive of then Republic of Texas......