Conservatives are "restive"

The centerpiece of President Bush's foreign policy -- the effort to transform Iraq into a peaceful democracy -- has been undermined by a deadly insurrection and broadcast photos of brutality by U.S. prison guards. On the domestic side, conservatives and former administration officials say the White House policy apparatus is moribund, with policies driven by political expediency or ideological pressure rather than by facts and expertise.

Conservatives have become unusually restive.

  MSNBC article

Well, it's about damned time.

Last Tuesday, columnist George F. Will sharply criticized the administration's Iraq policy, writing: "This administration cannot be trusted to govern if it cannot be counted on to think and, having thought, to have second thoughts."

Mr. Will, I don't think there's any shortage of quotes from the Oaf of Office bragging that he never second-guesses himself, and that he doesn't waste time thinking, he just goes on "gut instinct," so I think we can eliminate the "if" in your argument.

Two days earlier, Robert Kagan, a neoconservative supporter of the Iraq war, wrote: "All but the most blindly devoted Bush supporters can see that Bush administration officials have no clue about what to do in Iraq tomorrow, much less a month from now."

At this point, I think that the only Bush supporters left are the blindly devoted ones. Unfortunately, I think there are a whole lot of them.

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.