W. Has Jumped the Couch

Haha. Boohoo.

Bike-Deep in the Big Muddy.

W. has jumped the couch.

Not fallen off the couch, as he did when he choked on that pretzel.

Jumped it.

According to UrbanDictionary.com, "jump the couch" has now become slang for "a defining moment when you know someone has gone off the deep end. Inspired by Tom Cruise's recent behavior on 'Oprah.' Also see 'jump the shark.' "

The former stateside National Guardsman who was sometimes M.I.A. jumped the shark by landing on that "Mission Accomplished" carrier. (With Tom Cruise cockiness.)

Then, as president, he jumped the couch by pedaling through the guns of August - the growing carnage and chaos in Iraq and Afghanistan.

He did do a few minutes of work this month, calling a Shiite leader in Baghdad a few days ago to lobby him to reach a consensus with the Sunnis, so Iraq doesn't crack apart. But the Shiites and Kurds ignored the president and skewered the Sunnis.

Iraq, it turns out, is the one branch of American government that the Republicans don't control.

MoDo really nails it sometimes, doesn't she? Read on.

[And I know that couch doesn't necessarily fit the scenario, but since I'm talking about someone I dislike intensely (not MoDo; her subject), I thought I'd fair-and-balance that (now a verb!) by looking at something I quite like as a design piece. Photo credit.]