The following is my comment on digby's blog. Digby's blog is the one I blogged on in my previous blog.
Bush is in trouble in the polls, especially over the War in Iraq. He is also looking at the Supreme Court nomination this Summer, and if he stays in trouble, he won't be able to get his truly obnoxious candidate through the Senate. That is what the whole filibuster and John Bolton things have been about.
If the Dems roll over for the garbage coming up the party is dead meat.
You (Digby) also are correct when you point to Russ Baker's article saying that Bush needed a War to become a great President.
Bush has had a habit from the early in his political life of taking a list of alternatives and deciding on the most extreme choice with the greatest possible favorable result. The likelihood of success for that decision is irrelevant, because in his grandiosity, Bush thinks that he will always be able to make the decision work. He therefore ignores the odds against that extreme decision.
This plays right into Bush's grandiosity in intending to be a great President. Invading Iraq based on the PNAC and the promises of Ahmed Chalabi is a decision of that type. It also explains why there were no plans for what would happen during the occupation. As far as Bush is concerned, all he has to do is decide something will be done, and lesser beings will carry out his will. (Again, grandiosity.)
He does not see his legacy as a result of being popular. He sees it as revamping American society (hence Social Security phase out) and leaving a socially conservative Supreme Court that will last for a generation.
Rove and Cheney have also bought into that fantasy.
The Democrats have to stop trying to deal with the White House as though the incumbent is a sane person. He is not. He is a dry-drunk with a Narcissistic Personality Disorder, totally lacking in empathy and suffering from severe grandiosity.
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