Beware the man in the bubble  October 23, 2004  Once embarked on
a course of action, George Bush will not be swayed by mere
facts, writes Harold Meyerson.  "I have no outside advice" in
the war on terrorism, President Bush told Bob Woodward in
December 2001. In an interview that Woodward revealed in last
week's issue of The New Yorker, Bush insisted that "anybody who
says they're an outside adviser of this Administration on this
particular matter is not telling the truth. First of all, in the
initial phase of the war, I never left the compound. Nor did
anybody come in the compound. I was, you talk about one guy in a
bubble."  Indeed. By every available indication, George Bush's
is the most inside-the-bubble presidency in modern American
history. It's not just that his campaign operatives exclude all
but the true believers from his rallies, or that Bush, by the
evidence of his debate performances, has grown utterly
unaccustomed to criticism.  With each day, we learn that once
Bush has decided on a course of ac