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Why, oh why, do people still act like Bush is more than he is?
Conason writes: Yet even now, President Bush persists in blatantly falsifying the war's origins -- perhaps because, even now, he still gets away with it.
Perhaps because he still gets away with it? This weak-minded President-In-Name-Only believes everything he says, when he says it. He believes what he is told to believe. He is far too simple to be lying all the time. He is a tool of his "advisors", as he has been all his "adult" life.
Think about the following prossible scenario:
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Bush has made exactly one decision in his entire presidency. He picked Harriet Miers for the Supreme Court. He was encouraged to his face by Rove and Cheney and whomever else. But behind his back they led the Republican revolt against Miers. And then the heat got too hot, and it became clear that she couldn't be successfully confirmed. She asked for her name to be withdrawn. Rove and Cheney and Co. say to Bush, "See what happens when you make the decisions? Now, really, let us decide for you, like we always do."
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Do I think that is what really happened? Maybe it is. It certainly wouldn't surprise me.
But what would definitely surprise me is if Bush himself is really behind all these decisions that come out of his office.
There is nothing in his background to suggest that he is a decision-maker. And everything to suggest that he isn't.
Let's just quit pretending, shall we?
