Mr Bu$h had a press conference today. Braver souls than I actually took notes. Me, I was counting my toes, which I consider more important. Something leaped out among all the dross and cotton candy. I’m using the official WH script, which has of course been scrubbed of several mispronunciations, misstatements and outright stupid errors. Oh yes, they’re very interested in historical legacy over there, as long as they’re writing the historical record.

Congress has work to do on health care. Tomorrow Congress will hold a vote attempting to override my veto of the S-CHIP bill. It's unlikely that that override vote will succeed, which Congress knew when they sent me the bill. Now it's time to put politics aside and seek common ground to reauthorize this important program. I've asked Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt, National Economic Council Director Al Hubbard, and OMB Director Jim Nussle to lead my administration's discussions with the Congress. I made clear that if putting poor children first requires more than the 20 percent increase in funding I proposed, we'll work with Congress to find the money we need. I'm confident we can work out our differences and reauthorize S-CHIP.

Bang! Memo to Ms Pelosi: I’ve made a screen grab of this page, so when he tries to weasel out later, we've got proof of what he said.

Note how he says that if putting poor children first requires more than the 20 percent increase he proposed he’ll work to find the money? Send him back the frickin bill your American constituents want. Tell him it’s the entire $35 million or he can explain it all next year to desperate Republican politicians.

So I've told people that if you're interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing them from have the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon.

We have now moved the goalposts. We’re in fourth-stage Iraq invasion excuse making area, where we were gabbling about weapons of mass destruction program inclinations and desires. We’re now talking about not wanting a sovereign free country to have nuclear weapons, but also not wanting them to have the knowledge to make them. The Iran Strategic Target list must now be updated to include all university science and library buildings, all professional chemical, physics and chemistry companies, all high schools that have any sort of science program, and all public libraries.

And the thought that we could be engaged in a “World War” with a country that has economic and military power less than the Austro-Hungarian Empire should piss off the Russians, since they always thought they were our worst nightmare.

Time to count my toes again.