Bush announces a Middle East peace conference -- really, a meta-conference to decide whether to actually have a conference -- with only a vague date and attended only by "some" Arab countries immediately after Harry Reid forces the Republicans to go to the mattresses on Iraq with an all-night session tomorrow, Tuesday, July 16, so they can filibuster their way through through the midnight hours.

Condi, will you talk to Bush's Poodle for me on this? Bark to him, or whimper, grovel, or whatever he does when he hears His Master's Voice?

When you get, like, an actual date for the conference lined up, get back to me.

Mkay?

NOTE Or maybe Inerrant Boy is peeved because the whole North Korean deal got zero press play. Say, naybe people know that the deal Bush could have gotten, say, seven years ago, before that axis of evil speech crafted by Fred Hiatt's newest bumboy shat the diplomatic bed. Or maybe people simply don't trust a word Bush says. Could be both, I suppose.

UPDATE TPM: The whole deal is truly, madly, deeply bogus.