Direct from a White House toady....

Long time Bush apologist Fred Barnes channels Bush and tells us everything is aokay in the White House. Here's a few of the choicer quotes.

Bush says there's a better way to stay on offense against terrorists. "The way you win the war on terror," Bush said, "is to find people [who are terrorists] and get them to give you information about what their buddies are fixing to do."

I'm sure the informants are just lining up waiting to be the next one outed in the interest of GOP expediency.

"It's really important at this stage . . . to be thinking about how to institutionalize courses of action that will enable future presidents to gain the information necessary to prevent attack," he said. This, presumably, would include the use of secret prisons, tough but legal interrogation techniques, a ban on lawsuits against interrogators, electronic eavesdropping, and monitoring of bank transfers, among other measures.

Meaning, you have to make all this illegal stuff I've been doing -- legal.

Bush declared: "I've never been more convinced that the decisions I made are the right decisions."

...he senses a new spiritual awakening in the country. That view, he indicated, is at least partly based on the many times average citizens tell him they are praying for him.

There's much more like this. Fred doesn't seem to notice it sounds like the ravings of a madman. Any other man that talked like this in public would be in Bellevue on Thorazine.

And here's a clue to how they think they're going to bamboozle the voters into believing the economy is really working for them.

In the midterm election on November 7, Bush predicted Democrats won't win either the House or the Senate. "I believe these elections will come down to two things: one, firm belief that in order to win the war on terror there must be a comprehensive strategy that recognizes this war is being fought on more than one front, and, two, the economy." Bush said the price of gasoline, which has been falling rapidly, is one of the "interesting indicators" that the press should watch carefully. "Just giving you a heads up," he added.

In other words, Cheney reached a deal with the oil companies to drop the price of gas to soothe the angry voters. Like anybody with half a brain is going to believe that won't go up again on November 10th.

Of course there still is the problem of the all too hackable voting machines.... It's late to fix it for November and it could have something to do with Bush's confident prediction that the GOP won't lose any seats. I'm not sure what to do about that.