January 08, 2007


IMPEACH BUSH


IMPEACH CHENEY

POLICY DRIVEN BY EGO

It takes a tremendous ego to claim that God speaks to you, and that God wanted you to be president of the United States. It takes an enormous ego to deny reality because reality proves you desperately wrong. George W. Bush combines some pretty bad traits. He has boundless arrogance, no conscience, and no problem with causing the deaths of other people. Paul Krugman writes about it in this column linked at www.roziusunbound. blogspot.com:

Mr. Kahneman and Jonathan Renshon recently argued in Foreign Policy magazine that the administration’s unwillingness to face reality in Iraq reflects a basic human aversion to cutting one’s losses — the same instinct that makes gamblers stay at the table, hoping to break even.

Of course, such gambling is easier when the lives at stake are those of other people’s children.

Well, we don’t have to settle the question. Either way, what’s clear is the enormous price our nation is paying for President Bush’s character flaws.

I began writing about the Bush administration’s infallibility complex, the president’s Captain Queeg-like inability to own up to mistakes, almost a year before the invasion of Iraq. When you put a man like that in a position of power — the kind of position where he can punish people who tell him what he doesn’t want to hear, and base policy decisions on the advice of people who play to his vanity — it’s a recipe for disaster.