I've been head down on a project for a few days-- sorry for the light posting. So, I got to read Froomkin's column just now, where I learned that Inerrant Boy held another news conference.

Actually, it's a good thing I hadn't known, because I might have felt obligated to listen to it; I'd started my day listening to a genuinely creepy interview with Dick "Dick" Cheney on NPR, and if I'd had to listen to Bush too, I probably would have started throwing things and screaming at the radio even sooner than I usually do.

Since the press conference was pure, even vaporized Bushit, there's no point analyzing it, but it still offers interesting reading from a psychological standapoint. After all, just like the Cheney interview, it's always amazing how normal crazy people can sound when they let professionals develop their talking points.

So I thought I'd stick to light reading, and extract the Bushisms. From the official White House transcript, or at least as official as it can be, given that Constitutional government in the United States ended with the MCA:

[BUSH, reading from prepared text.] We're working with the Iraqi government to perform the performance ...

Hmmm... Performance anxiety, eh?

[BUSH] We're making it clear that America's patient [sic [from White House]] is not unlimited.

[BUSH, answering questions]

[The so-called War on Terror] has a multiple of fronts. ... help us get back the -- help Israel get back the prisoner that was captured by Hamas [Interesting He conflates the US and Israel] ... In other words, the transformation effort into itself is a big project for any Secretary to handle. [Into itself? What was it before?] ... I view that this is a struggle between radicals and extremists who are trying to prevent there to be a democracy, for a variety of reasons. ... [Yeah, like the 2006 midterms] ... I understand here in Washington people have already determined the outcome of the election, like it's over even before the people actually start heading -- voting. ... You know, they're showing up when it comes time to -- these absentee votes. ... And then when it change, we changed. ... See, you all got to understand that.

Oh I do, I do ...

NOTE And from The Department of Irony is Not Dead, but Liveth:

Reconciliation is difficult in a society that had been divided and tortured by a tyrant.

No shit, Sherlock.