And holds the 8th press conference of his administration. Number of press conferences held at a comparable point in the 4 years of his two predecessors: 33 for Clinton, and 61 for his daddy.

As Reuters is cleverly pointing out the obvious in this article:

"Bush Accepts Blame for African Uranium Charge"

The article draws, in stark relief, the ability of The Resident Rat to tell bald faced lies:

"After weeks of blaming others, President Bush for the first time accepted responsibility on Wednesday for making a now-discredited charge that Iraq was seeking uranium from Africa.

"I take personal responsibility for everything I say," Bush said when asked about the disputed claim during a wide-ranging White House Rose Garden news conference."

I'm sure his handlers are relieved he'll be going on his month long siesta soon. With clarifications like that, and this one too:

"Bush also denied exaggerating the Iraqi threat in the runup to the war...and said his decision to go to war was based on "good, sound intelligence" that Iraq was developing weapons of mass destruction."

Right, they just can't show it to anyone. Like the 9/11 commission information requests, Cheney's Energy Task Force...

He also said "I believe marriage is between a man and a woman and I believe we ought to codify that one way or the other and we have lawyers looking at the best way to do that..."

Our tax dollars at work. I'm so glad that with the current economic crisis we are facing at the local, state, and federal level, that the Bush administration is working on ways to pass legislation putting the government in our bedrooms again, as soon as the Supreme Court issues an historic ruling, kicking the government out of citizen's bedrooms.

So, anyone feeling better about The Resident Rat, the war on Iraq, the economy, and the state of marital unions after this press conference?