Fiddling while Rome burns, as usual

Dan Froomkin is right. George Bush's continued cockiness in the face of economic downturn, endless war, and awful poll numbers is just "inexplicable." In his column today, Froomkin quotes from a Roll Call interview with Bush ("We have more debt, but we've also got more assets") and reminds us of the 2004 press conference when Bush was unable to come up with a single mistake he had made when asked.

Yeah, that was pretty weird, wasn't it? I mean, that's the first "tricky" question kids learn to answer at a job interview! "What's your biggest weakness? Have you ever made a mistake, and how did you handle it?"

But remember, Bush has never really had a "job interview." Born in the boardroom, thinks he rocked the interview, to paraphrase Jim Hightower.