Hang On

From here:

"The President has always been willing to make changes," the senior aide said, "but not because someone in this town tells him to - NEVER!"

For the moment, Bush has dismissed discreetly offered advice from friends and loyalists to fire Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and bring back longtime confidant Karen Hughes from the State Department to shore up his personal White House staff.

"He thinks that would be an admission he's screwed up, and he can't bring himself to do that," a former senior staffer lamented.

One of the key things that makes one a functioning adult is the ability to say, "Oops, I fucked up." And then figure out how to fix what you fucked up.

Those who continue to do what doesn't work, even when the rest of the world, including those who backed them, is saying "whoa," are going to crash and burn eventually.