oh, the man is toast.

How weakened does Bush have to be for Jay Leno to make jokes about him?

I mean, gee whiz. The man still tells France jokes.

Jay Leno: "Vice President Dick Cheney reportedly suffered severe chest pains today. It's not a heart attack or anything like that, he just heard gas was under two bucks a gallon again. He can't take it. It's just too much."

Jay Leno: "Democratic Presidential candidate John Kerry came down pretty hard on fellow Democrat Howard Dean this weekend. After Dean misspoke several times, Kerry said you can't misspeak 15 times in a week and be president. And today, Bush said, 'You can't?'"

Jay Leno: "According to a Newsweek poll, just a few days after entering the race -- you know this general Wesley Clark guy, he is already the Democratic frontrunner. He's number one. And according to the polls, if the race were held today, Clark and Bush would be a virtual dead heat. And in a related story, Bush announced he's calling General Clark out of retirement and sending him to Iraq."

dark, crystallized toast with black scaly patches where it touched the heat element

Bush points at the bleachers and then hits air.

The Washington Times, though, still has faith (which, come to think of it, they would, being moonies and all).


The White House yesterday said President Bush never intended to directly ask other nations for help in postwar Iraq during his visit to the United Nations, leaving that task instead to aides.

One of those aides, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, yesterday said the administration is making progress in forging a U.N. Security Council resolution that would lay the groundwork for an influx of more foreign troops and money.

Do you love it? One of those aides, the Secretary of State of the United States.

I don't know how they resisted calling him "a staffmember"


White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan was peppered with questions from reporters who suggested the president failed to secure help from other nations in a U.N. visit earlier this week.

It's outrageous. I think we can clearly see liberal bias in minds that can blithely accuse the president of failing to secure help from other nations in a U.N. visit earlier this week simply because he departed from New York after a U.N. visit earlier this week without any other nations offering to help.

Peppered, he was. McClellan, I mean.


While some news outlets portrayed the president's visit to the United Nations as a "failure," conservatives took the opposite view.

This is, of course, true. They didn't want to work with the U.N., now we're not working with the U.N.

If you look at it right, he did a great job for them.


For example, Nile Gardiner of the Heritage Foundation called Mr. Bush's speech to the General Assembly "a powerful wake-up call for an organization that is in danger of becoming irrelevant on the world stage."

He added: "The president's speech projected clarity, vision and direction Ñ three qualities sorely lacking in a U.N. organization that looks more like a glorified debating society than a serious global body designed to confront the world's growing threats and problems."

Sadly, Nile Gardiner of the Heritage Foundation seems still to be in the throes of a violent reaction to this barely averted threat to our national penis size.

I think we can count on Nile to take it from here, don't you?

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well aren't I dull today

but I guess I'm not in a posting sort of place, so I'm going to head out to the back yard with a glass of wine and Brideshead Revisited, which has just the sort of Tom Brown's Ambiguously Gendered Schooldays mood I'm looking for right now, sort of like David Foster Wallace without the footnotes ("Come, Charles. You and I and Aloysius simply must go down to the river in flannel and eat scrambled eggs with the epicene young men.") although possibly somewhat marred for me by that darn Julia always getting in the way.

Later there may be salad. I haven't decided yet.

If I don't see you, have a nice weekend.