Missing More Than a Few Cards


Shrub's confusing "the voices" in his head...with public opinion. Geez:

Confronted with strong opposition to his Iraq policies, President Bush decides to interpret public opinion his own way. Actually, he says, people agree with him...

Increasingly isolated on a war that is going badly, Bush has presented his alternative reality in other ways, too. He expresses understanding for the public's dismay over the unrelenting sectarian violence and American losses that have passed 3,400, but then asserts that the public's solution matches his.

"A lot of Americans want to know, you know, when?" he said at a Rose Garden news conference Thursday. "When are you going to win?"

If that's a true measure of what constitutes his, for lack of a better term, "thinking," then...Houston, we've got a problem. Or maybe it should be 'we've got Houston's problem.'