James Wolcott: Bubble Trouble Dead Ahead

Everyone remembers the now-famous exchange where a Bush aide loftily informed reporter Ron Suskind that he and his kind were stuck behind in the "reality-based community" while the Bushies, as custodians of the new American empire, were empowered to "create our own reality" as they forged full speed ahead. The triumphal Bushies were the dynamic actors of history--reporters were merely recorders of history playing catch-up and subscribing to outmoded metrics of actuality, the poor stooges.

Which is why it was even more incumbent that those outside the admininstration able to influence policy not to indulge in self-induced mind-warp power games. To corral the wild horses in the White House, as it were.