Certainly there was no mandate to bully the press...

Take a look at the new arrogance of our President at today's press conference:

PRESIDENT BUSH: Now that I've got the will of the people at my back, I'm going to start enforcing the one-question rule. That was three questions.

Oh, the will of the people! That must have been what that bulge was in the first debate! He goes on:

PRESIDENT BUSH: Again, he violated the one-question rule right off the bat. Obviously you didn't listen to the will of the people.

1% more than 50% is not an expression of "the will of the people," but a bare, thin majority. There is no mandate. There is no "will of the people" because half of those people wouldn't trust to be left alone with their purse (or man-bag), let alone their will. All you have is a bunch of people praying for you. But those prayers aren't going to get you out of Iraq or this fiscal crisis or this crappy economy. You have the support of the part of the country you were able to lie toenough to convince them. And this hubris can only last so long before the fall.

And don't think we aren't watching.