Mr. Prime Minister

Earlier this year I wrote about "the second most important politician in America," U.K. Prime Minister, Tony Blair.

The articulate case he made for war with Iraq, free elections and the overall power of democracy helped President Bush in more ways that I think even he is willing to admit.

So today's London polls showing Blair victorious in the May 5 parliamentary elections should come as welcome news to Bush and the eventual Republican nominee for President, whoever that may be.

The irony of course is that Blair is the Labour candidate - the liberal. The Conservative Party (or Torry) leader Michael Howard today announced - in the heat of campaign rhetoric - a 1.7 billion Pound tax cut to save the U.K.'s pension plan... sounds like Bush.

This would give Blair his third - and according to him - his last term as PM of Great Britain.