Bush only hears what he wants to hear

[Rose Siding]

(Rove's) confidence buoyed everyone inside the West Wing, especially the president. Ten days before the elections, House Majority Leader John Boehner visited Bush in the Oval Office with bad news. He told Bush that the party would lose Tom DeLay's old seat in Texas, where Bush was set to campaign. Bush brushed him off, Boehner recalls. "Get me Karl," the president told an aide. "Karl has the numbers."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15675318/site/newsweek/

Presumably, Boehner had some numbers too, just not the ones that gave Son of Bush that just-diapered, powdered and burped feeling. He needed to hear about THE math again. From Karl.

And presumably others were giving him some disappointing numbers too (well, certainly not everyone -the article says Mehlman was dour and wrote his more accurate predictions on a card, kept secret until after the election) but this man, with the most powerful position in the world, put all his faith in this one other dude? The one saying what he wanted to hear? Spooky.

I *think* Nancy and Harry have been around the block enough times to know that when they leave a WH meeting, it's more likely than not that sycophants are still summoned to stroke and stoke the royal perspective. God, I hope they know it.

[SHRED]

1. A dream world

This is why he said he, "didn't see this coming".

A lost and violent space cadet at the helm.
Comforting isn't it?
:sarcasm:

[knowbody0]

2. dude would surely have inspired Shakespear!