Our Imperial President

Shorter NYT: Bush to everybody. "Fuck you. I'm the preznit dammit and I'll do whatever the hell I want."

The money grafs:

But senior staff members insist that Mr. Bush is in good spirits, that calls from his party to inject new blood into the White House make him ever more stubborn to keep the old, and that he has become so inured to outside criticism that he increasingly tunes it out. There is no sense of crisis, they say, even over rebellious Republicans in Congress, because the White House has been in almost constant crisis since Sept. 11, 2001, and Mr. Bush has never had much regard for Congress anyway.

"You know, people say to me, my buddies in Texas, 'How do you handle all this stuff?' " Mr. Bush said at a gathering of newspaper editors Friday in Washington. "You know, it's just after a while you get used to it."

Yeah and if you stick your fingers in your ears and sing la, la, la really loud, you can't hear them anyway.