Times transcript of Bush's presser:

QUESTION: If I could just switch subjects for a second to another big decision you made recently, which was in the Scooter Libby case, you spoke very soberly and seriously in your statement about how you weighed different legal questions in coming to your decision on that commutation.

But one issue that you did not address was the issue of the morality of your most senior advisers, you know, leaking the name of a confidential intelligence operator.

Now that the case is over -- it's not something you've ever spoken to -- can you say whether you're at all disappointed in the behavior of those senior advisers?

And have you communicated that disappointment to them in any way?

BUSH: First of all, the Scooter Libby decision was, I thought, a fair and balanced decision.

No answer. Nice dog whistle with "fair and balanced."

Secondly, I haven't spent a lot of time talking about the testimony that people throughout my administration were forced to give as a result of the special prosecutor. I didn't ask them during that time and I haven't asked them since.

No answer.

I'm aware of the fact that perhaps somebody in the administration did disclose the name of that person. And, you know, I've often thought about what would have happened had that person come forth and said, I did it. Would we have had this, you know, endless hours of investigation and a lot of money being spent on this matter?

No answer.

But it has been a tough issue for a lot of people in the White House, and it's run its course, and now we're going to move on.

No answer.

What an asshole.

Anybody notice how He looked? How about the earbud? Have they changed his meds?