Methinks that Bush has a major problem with what might be called "Wile. E. Coyote moments." This is when Wile E. Coyote is concentrating so hard on the chase (motivated by his single-minded "I want! I want!") that he doesn't realize that he's run off the edge of the cliff and is standing in mid-air. He's fine until he suddenly realizes that something is not quite what he thought it was. The "moment" comes when he looks down.   And then. . . .

But you've got to hand it to him. As Bush hurtles toward the canyon floor, his (or somebody's) mind is working, and by the time he hits bottom with a resounding splat, he has managed to spin it into a policy statement, saying that this is what he planned all along. After all (he sees in retrospect), it is the fastest way to get down from the cliff.

Don Firth