Creative producers and writers continue to reinvent and reimagine Oz, perhaps because it's a place, like America itself, where plucky individuals get to reinvent and reimagine themselves.
It may be worth noting, though, that in recent weeks the New Republic has carried cover drawings of Bush as a dunce, with the tag line WHY AMERICA LOVES STUPID CANDIDATES, and as the scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz, with the tag line THE HARDEST JOB IN POLITICS: THE WOMAN WHO HAS TO GET GEORGE BUSH A BRAIN.