Somebody at Townhall.Com is SANE? From the very heart of the right wing (if NewsMax didn't exist) comes this from conservative Bruce Bartlett. In short, President Bush often seems to operate like the character from "Alice in Wonderland" who declared, "Sentence first -- verdict afterwards." Instead of figuring out why and how things should be done before acting, the White House seems to act first and then create ex post facto rationalizations for that decision in lieu of serious deliberation. ... Contrary to what conspiracy theorists imagine, I don't think President Bush ever ordered facts to be invented to justify the Iraq war. Rather, I think there was a great deal of what economists call self-selection bias. Facts that confirmed what President Bush wanted to believe tended to filter up to him, while conflicting facts tended to be sidelined. This just in from the White House, Spanky McSpokesman wants you to know that Bruce Bartlett was wearing these when typing that column.