Bush likes what he sees

The lead editorial in today's San Jose Mercury News was: Bush looks at his work and likes what he sees.

Maybe the Oval Office should be renamed the Echo Chamber.

As President Bush awards the Medal of Freedom to architects of the Iraq war and holds an economic summit to cheerlead for his tax cuts and Social Security privatization, it's increasingly clear that the president wants to hear only voices that echo his own.

All presidents like to hear that they are right. But Bush is especially prone to blocking out views, and evidence, to the contrary. ...

Accompanying the editorial was this dead-on photo illustration by Shan Carter.