Bush sleeps on the job

It's the week between Christmas and New Years. The week where people lament about their crappy presents, but hold out hope that their holiday season will be redeemed by a champagne-soaked evening watching a dumb ball drop in Times Square. It's also the week where half of the employees at work are still on vacation and the other half who have shown up choose to do nothing but check their gmail incessantly in hopes of hearing from prospective employers (or maybe that's just me). Oh yea, I am all about the holidays...

The Post has an interesting article about how the Bush team is rethinking its second term strategy. Am I the only one who thinks this re-tooling is unnecessary? A failed Social Security overhaul, CIA leaks, rising casualties in Iraq, Harriet Miers, and Hurricane Katrina all seemed to be working well for Bush II. This is my favorite line from the article:

"Bush, who had plenty to be morose about through the fall, responded with vigor as well. Instead of heading immediately to bed after the Oval Office address, as he usually does, he stuck around to chew through themes for his upcoming State of the Union address, another high-ranking administration official said."

(Waterson displays confusion and disgust in reaction to the President's pre-Law & Order bedtime)

Wow, the leader of the free world bypassed his 9pm beddy time to work on his goals for the second term of his presidency. This has to be the most pathetic thing I've ever read about the President. Are we supposed to be impressed? The POTUS should not be gettin more sleep than my friggin grandma. I want him working on the mounting problems facing our nation, not working on his beauty sleep. I mean come on people, who goes to sleep before Law & Order? I bet John Kerry watched Conan that night.