That effort to rename one of San Francisco’s sewage treatment plants after President Bush qualified for the ballot yesterday. We can all agree that it’s sophomoric and all that, and I’m obviously not a shill for the White House. But have the arrogant creeps behind this effort thought about how this kind of thing just reinforces the public impression that the cultural left drips with contempt for the common man? Do you think the people working at the Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant think their lives are a joke? Their work is essential to the very existence of urban industrial society and these leftist nuts mock them? It’s disgusting, but this contempt for the hoi polloi is the reason Republicans keep winning presidential elections. If the Bush administration were smart, they’d have leapt at this opportunity, saying that while the president deplored the disdain for working people inherent in such an effort, he would be proud to have his name associated with such a vital service and stood in solidarity with the engineers and chemists and electricians and others that help make modern life possible against the scorn of the lunatic left.