The one article George Bush read

A week ago, Bill Kristol wrote an editorial with this jawdropping lead,

I suppose I'll merely expose myself to harmless ridicule if I make the following assertion: George W. Bush's presidency will probably be a successful one.

Well, today we find out, perhaps unsurprisingly,

Bill Kristol's the-war-is-being-won piece in The Washington Post brought him plenty of ridicule, but at least one person liked it.

President Bush read the July 15 Outlook article that morning and recommended it to his staff.

(And I'm not going to directly link the Kristol piece. If you want the link, it's in the first line of the Kurtz piece.)