Endless email on my suggestion–make that DEMAND–that the “X is the new Y” figure be permanently retired. “Bush is the new Nixon,” says one reader. (Didn’t Dick Morris write a column proving that Bush is, in fact, the new Carter?) On gas prices, several to the effect: “$4.00 is the new $1.87.” Iran the new Iraq, Tom’n’Kate the new Burton’n’Taylor, etc. Enough already.