A question, if I may, what the fuck relevance does the white house press gaggle have anymore? Other than to declare "White house refuses to comment on [insert Bush scandal-o-the-week here]"?

Why not just put up a huge brick wall with an idealized caricature of Bush painted on it and let the WH press corps bounce rubber balls off of it for an hour or two a day? Keeps the press busy and preoccupied from what a disaster the country is becoming and no need to hire and fire a moving target like Scotty boy. Win-win I tells ya.

So Bush scrapes past rock bottom and into dangerously unstable new lows in his approval, and what great steps do his handlers take to save his sorry ass? Start handing out help wanted sections of local papers to his soon to be ex staff it seems.

Because that's the way it works in Bush's world. Didja ever notice that when old Dubya tries to explain complimuhcated things to us simple folk, he gets this look on his face that just screams "Don't these fucking ya-hoos get it? Am I the only one that gets it?”? In his world, the message isn't wrong, just the messenger, the method. If only that goddamn 67% of the population started paying attention, they'd see that cold war style saber rattling is a GOOD thing. That destabilizing the Middle East and taking sides in a conflict as old as time simply makes sense, if I've ever met a group that so believes in the saying "The ends justify the means." as these guys, I don't remember it.

"Bu-bu-but you don't understand..."

I'd like to set the record straight here, we've been listening. We heard you. We get it. We still think you're all bugfuck insane.

That, and the ends don't justify the means. The means *are* the end, in the process of becoming.