Pres. Bush recently hosted a Kool-Aid party with a gaggle of rightwing pundits at the White House. Eugene Robinson at the Washington Post put together a round-up of the pundits’ reviews of the president’s demeanor:

National Review’s Kate O’Beirne, who joined the presidential chat in the Roosevelt Room, told me that the most striking thing was the president’s incongruously sunny demeanor … Bush was “not at all weary or anguished” and in fact was “very energized,” wrote Michael Barone of U.S. News & World Report. He was “as confident and upbeat as ever,” observed Rich Lowry of National Review. “Far from being beleaguered, Bush was assertive and good-humored,” according to David Brooks of the New York Times.

Why is Bush so happy? Because he knows he is doing God’s bidding:

One of the more unnerving reports out of the president’s seminar with the pundits came from Brooks, who quoted Bush as saying: “It’s more of a theological perspective. I do believe there is an Almighty, and I believe a gift of that Almighty to all is freedom. And I will tell you that is a principle that no one can convince me that doesn’t exist.”

I think I see where he’s going. God told him to invade Iraq to secure the Iraqis’ oil, I mean, freedom. So blame the failure of the war on God, not Bush.

Tnx CBC