All Intensive Purposes

Annie LaMott, on a Bush presidency with Karl Rove around to write the script:

[T]o whom can Bush turn for advise and illumination on how to proceed with the growing scandal, besides Karl Rove? Because that's like talking to your alcoholism ABOUT your alcoholism, which doesn't make a lot of sense, since your alcoholism does not think of you as an alcoholic, but rather, as a social drinker, and bon vivant. Your alcoholism doesn't even think you have a problem: it's all those over-reactive, whiney babies you used to call your family and friends.