political polarization

So, last night my girlfriend was trawling YouTube watching hilarious videos, and ended up watching some political clips from various American channels. You might wonder how that came about. Well it went like this: failblog videos... ...reporter fail... ...news presenter mistakes... ...news...

Only in office for a little over 24 hours some pretty serious cases have already shown up. I knew it was going to happen, but not quite as fast.

Well, it's been popular for most of the last 8 years to refer to any criticism of 'W', who at this point is clearly one of the worst executives, if not the worst executive of them all, in this country's history, as "Bush Derangement Syndrome". It occurs to me that such a thing exists, but that...

What exactly is this? I've seen a lot of right-wingers here use the term, and it seems to me like a poor attempt at whitewashing the Bush administration's..."shortcomings."