Packer on Shrub

As an ex-political science major, one of my 'heroes' was George Packer. In the recent New Yorker, he takes Shrub's new (non-coloring) book apart.

In Bush's telling, the non-decision decision is a constant feature of his Presidential policymaking. ...

Here is another feature of the non-decision: once his own belief became known to him, Bush immediately caricatured opposing views and impugned the motives of those who held them. If there was an honest and legitimate argument on the other side, then the President would have to defend his non-decision, taking it out of the redoubt of personal belief and into the messy empirical realm of contingency and uncertainty.

h/t to TPM for the link

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