Despite your obvious spin, we all know why G.W. Bush is quiet. It's because he is verbally impaired and mangles the English language routinely. Your quote from the equally biased National Review was also far off the mark. Whether the issue is environment or health care or taxes or education, the only point of view represented in the Bush administration is big business. The contrast with Clinton is indeed stark, but not in Bush's favor.
World leaders know that they are dealing with a limited man and that others are pulling the strings.
These special corporate interests do not have a vision of democratic progress or any concept of the public interest. What they offer, through Bush, is an America that is part banana republic and part Greater Stepford. As Bush continues to govern from the right, and not the middle as promised in the campaign, a significant number of moderate swing voters will have second thoughts. Some are having them already. So your prognosis for the Democrats is inaccurate as well.