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Yesterday, I wondered how it was that Bob Woodward's previous books had painted such a positive vision of Bush when his latest one seems to be so negative. Today, Ezra Klein has the answer.

UPDATE: Kevin Drum adds:

This is what happens when a court turns on its king: the court stenographer dutifully turns right along with them and then tells the whole world about it. That's why I've never held Bob Woodward's role against him. We need to have at least one court stenographer around so the rest of us know what the court is thinking, and Woodward is as good a choice as anyone.

This is what makes State of Denial useful... State of Denial may only be a reflection of Woodward's sources, but for a discerning reader the zeitgeist of those sources is what the book is all about anyway. Thanks to Woodward, we can now say with confidence that it's not just liberals who think Bush is a nitwit anymore. Bush's supporters think he's a nitwit too.