No doubt.

(Washington Post) Bush ignored the issue during two speeches today, and when reporters shouted questions at him during a visit to Capitol Hill. During a private meeting with senators, he immediately raised the topic and expressed great annoyance, according to a source who was there. Bush said that if he had known that hijackers were going to take planes and use them as weapons, he would have used the "full force and fury of the United States military to stop it," the source said. Bush said that he "sniffed politics in the air" and that "someone may be trying to use this as a political opportunity."


similarly


(Washington Post) At a fundraising dinner in New York yesterday evening, Vice President Cheney said the United States faces the threat of a new attack even worse than the Sept. 11 assaults. He condemned Democratic Party criticism of the White House's handling of the terror warnings as "thoroughly irresponsible . . . in a time of war."

Truly. If the Democratic Party persists in blowing off the fundraisers where the briefings are held, you can hardly blame the White House.

update update

How was school?

OK

Did you do anything cool or interesting or fun?

Yes

Did they move your seat?

Yes

Who are you sitting with now?

[boy], [boy] and Caroline

Well, that's good. Caroline is your friend, right?

Yes, mother (will no-one rid me of this troublesome parent?)

So, how did it go?

(ah, finally, a sign of life - disapproval) She talked to me and wanted to play with me all day, and I wanted to work.

by which I believe we can assume that we caught the problem before it did any permanent damage to her social confidence. My child, the weebul.

(no subject)

there's a zen buddhist monk cooking vegan yam recipes on Iron Chef. It's as if he's in a completely different show. I'm really enjoying this.

also we made pizza dough. we (ahem) knead to make pizza dough.

I just love being the first one ever to make every joke there is. I am a silly mommy, but everyone thinks I'm funny. So I'm told, anyway.