Laura Bush complained about the President's sleeping habits (too much) at the White House Correspondents' Association's annual dinner. Notice her reference to Rumsfield and Cheney in her quip about the chainsaw solution her husband likes. Seems to me the Fist Lady knows who the bad guys in the administration are, namely those that may have pushed her husband into hasty decisions, perhaps based on les than credible information.
When Laura Bush wisecracked at the White House Correspondents' Association's annual dinner on Saturday night that she was a "desperate housewife" married to a president who was always sound asleep by 9 p.m., the popular first lady accomplished two things. She brought down a very tough house, and she humanized her husband, whose sagging poll numbers are no match for her own.
Judging from the laughter in the Washington Hilton ballroom at Mrs. Bush's words - "George's answer to any problem at the ranch is to cut it down with a chain saw, which I think is why he and Cheney and Rumsfeld get along so well" - Mrs. Bush has a future in political stand-up comedy.
Whether her cheeky one-liners will shore up her husband as he struggles with Social Security, gas prices and combative Democrats is another question entirely. But her zingers showed how much the White House relies on her to soften her husband's rough edges at critical moments, much as she did with her extensive travels and fund-raising in the 2004 campaign.
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