When President Bush says Don Rumsfeld is doing a “superb job” you really have to shudder to think what we’d have in store for us if the guy came off his winning streak.

You expect — or perhaps better to say, you hope — soon to see the sober, serious grown-up come along, put his hand on the guy’s shoulder and say, “It’s over” — perhaps saying it a few more times, with arresting finality, until he understands.