The self-absorption administration

From Ron's Suskind's apparent stream of conscious observations on the transition.

Not every president gets an era. Bush 41 didn’t. Reagan did, F.D.R. certainly did and L.B.J. did, too, by virtue of having presided during havoc. Clinton yearns for his eight years to be called an era but knows he fell short, and often says that a president needs to have governed during crisis to be considered great. Or at least consequential. Much like Lyndon Johnson’s, George W. Bush’s tenure was the drama of a president devoured by titanic events — forces that overwhelmed best-laid plans and even the soundest of intentions, and magnified errors.

"The best-laid plans?" And what, pray tell, were those?

And is he implying Democrats are still the party of acid?

Of course, the roots took hold in Iowa and spread state to state. And now, the day before Election Day, Team Obama was running though fields of tall grass, city to city, in the final day of a kind of electoral mystery tour.

But Suskind's overall conclusion on the failed presidency of George W. Bush is a sound one: for Bush it was always just about him.