Apparently my theory that Bush really is the born-again he claims to be and really does think we’re sliding into the End Times is not supported by the evidence. Jeanne d’Arc quotes Al Franken (not trying to be funny):

Then I talked to [Howard] Fineman and he remembered talking to Bush during the primaries in New Hampshire. Howard asked him what selection of the Bible he’d read that day because the campaign was saying that Governor Bush read the Bible every day.

And we tracked down the transcript and Bush was totally defensive and it seemed to me from the transcript that he really didn’t read the Bible every day. He just said he did — which is, like, a very weird thing to lie about.

(Via Brad de Long.)

Given the current geopolitical situation, I guess this is a good thing, on balance. I guess.