Memo to all employees: Knock off the wishful thinking...

Kevin Drum catches Gregg Easterbrook pondering our energy policy under the assumption that Dubya is a rational person who alters his viewpoints based on objective data.

I personally expect this kind of garbage from Easterbrook... I think the guy's an idiot. However, I have seen far too many non-idiots making similar noises about how Bush is going to have to moderate on this or that due to whatever logical reason the reality-based community sees coming down the pike.

But here's the thing, folks... when the hell has Bush ever moderated on anything based on new information? Since when has he made policy tailored to objective information and not to ideology? What the hell makes you think he's going to start now?

For folks who look at data objectively to formulate their opinions and theories, this is one big gaping hole: rather than looking at the past data, they are basing their views of the future on pure pipe dreams.

WAKE UP!