Bush In The Bubble

There are two interesting articles, one from Newsweek and one in Time on Bush's isolation from reality. These two articles mimic what most people already figured about Bush: he is sheltered from reality and criticism by his staff and operates in a word surrounded by the "adults" in the White House, his staff. Other reports have suggested that Bush is also becoming increasingly frustrated and irritable. This is not a good situation when the man with his finger on the button has no grasp on reality. It also appears that, perhaps after being irked by GOP criticism of his handling of the war in Iraq, Bush has decided to stay his own (disasterous) course in Iraq, even ignoring the GOP needs in the midterm election. While this would be a political gold mine for the Democrats, it would be disasterous for the country; the longer Bush keeps U.S. troops in Iraq, the more unstable the country will be, the more U.S. troops and Iraqis will die and the more likely it will become that the U.S. occupation will fuel terrorist attacks against the U.S. or our allies. In fact, this has already begun to happen, as the Iraqi suicide bombers in Jordan demonstrate. If Republicans value their seats in the Congress, not to mention the U.S. military, they will ditch Bush and force the withdrawal of troops from Iraq by joining Democrats in cutting off war funding with a veto-proof majority. Anything else will further hurt the country.