I love Bob Herbert

Too bad you have to pay for him.

But a little (free)bird told me that he wrote this today:

Reality is caving in on a president who was held aloft for so long by a combination of ideological mumbo-jumbo, the public relations legerdemain of Karl Rove and the buoyant patriotism that followed the Sept. 11 attacks. The Bush people were never big on reality, so sooner or later they were bound to be blindsided by it.

It sounds like Krugman, Herbert and Dowd are trying to give people their money's worth at least.