At least we learn that our fundie Prez reads

Our Fundie President is working hard on that End Times thing (via Saul Friedman, h/t AB):

There is an alien influence, mostly unpublicized, running like an undercurrent beneath the Bush administration's Middle East policies. It may help explain George W. Bush's single-mindedness, his oblivious inability to face reality as his war in Iraq, his war against terror and his policies towards Arabs and Israeli have collapsed.

I say "alien," because I believe this to be the first time in modern American history that a president's religion, in this case his Christian fundamentalism, has become a decisive factor in his foreign and domestic policies. It’s a factor that has been under-reported, to say the least, and that begs for press attention.

Bush, who says he reads the Bible daily, acknowledges his fundamentalist beliefs. Biblical and Middle East scholar Karen Armstrong writes in The Guardian, "Whatever Bush's personal beliefs, the ideology of the Christian right is both familiar and congenial to him. This strange amalgam of ideas can perhaps throw light on the behavior of a president who, it is said, believes God chose him to lead the world toward Rapture, who has little interest in social reform, and whose selective concern for life issues has now inspired him to veto important scientific research.

You'd think this was a story worth covering by the MSM, but they have been completely asleep at the wheel, as time and again, Bush shows all the signs of a completely delusional man, guided only by his faith (and his bible beating friends on the White House batphone speed-dial), ignoring ample factual evidence that his policies are failing. Yet he and his team barrel ahead, full bore, unfazed.

For the rest of us it's as though GWB was put on this earth for the sole purpose of driving the U.S. into the f*cking ground in the name of the holy baby Jeebus.