Eleanor Clift, another MW who has been phoning it in for quite a while, notices that the Chimperor has no clothes either...at least she seems to have him down to his boxers...

We have a president who operates by belief, not reason, and who lives in a hermetically sealed alternate reality. How else to explain his performance before the press this week?
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Bush also clings to the fiction that finding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq is still a prospect, citing the recent discovery of mustard gas buried on a turkey farm in Libya. Who is feeding Bush such claptrap? “A president is only as good as the information he is given,” says Jack Valenti, who was in the White House with Lyndon Johnson when Vietnam was raging. What Valenti remembers most from the meetings he attended is how wrong the military assessments turned out to be once they were filtered up from the field to Saigon to the Pentagon. By the time they reached LBJ, there was a light at the end of the tunnel.
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...A Republican policymaker wonders if Bush has forgotten Iran is part of the axis of evil. “Did we invade Iraq to get a mini-Iran?” he exclaimed. “What’s next? The North Koreans do Fallujah?”
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Bush wanted to bolster Sharon, who faces a plebiscite on his Gaza plan later this month along with a possible indictment on corruption charges. Sharon, a gruff, bullying figure, persuaded Bush that without his public endorsement, he might not survive. Is it worth the backlash in the Arab world to send a lifeline to Sharon? The answer is no from a geopolitical standpoint, but yes when Karl Rove’s November playbook is taken into account. If Bush can get his share of the Jewish vote up from one quarter to one third, that could mean the election. Bush may not be much of a conceptual thinker, but he knows how to count.