Inside a bubble, week after week

It often seems like George W. Bush and his cronies operate from within a bubble - fenced off from the American people and Congress, shrouded in secrecy, unwilling to acknowledge mistakes or even reality (remember "we will be greeted as liberators" or "the insurgency is in its last throes"?)

That sad metaphor is the inspiration for Andrew Wahl's latest cartoon, reproduced with permission below, which is one of the finest he's ever illustrated.