Denial ain't just a river

In a Fox News interview Sunday, First Lady Laura said she does not believe opinion polls placing the President's approval at new record lows.

"I don't really believe those polls. I travel around the country. I see people, I see their responses to my husband. I see their response to me,"...

This level of denial is just ridiculous. Perhaps that response is rooted in the year's of enabling her husband's drunken behavior. Maybe it is just a Stepford reflex or Marie Antionette syndrome. It could be Tinkerbell disorder ("Clap louder children"). Whatever the clinical cause, Laura Bush is clearly suffering from the same thing that has infected our Federal government; the inablilty to observe and react to reality.

It is a sickness that leads to statements like Iraq is progressing nicely. New Orleans reconstruction is going well. The deficit is under control. Rich people need more tax cuts. The President and Congress are doing a fine job. Nothing to see here people, move along.

The bottom line is that our government has a congenital inablility to recognize problems in a timely manner, and, hence, create solutions before things get out of hand. That failure has killed thousands of people, destroyed a city, and started a civil war. It is time for some adults to run the show. The midterm elections can't get here soon enough.