Why Now?

CBS has an interview scheduled with President Bush.

It's big news.

Bush doesn't do this every day.

This made me wonder why he was doing it. Somebody on CBS said something about the pending State of the Union Address but …

A few minutes ago, J.D. Roberts came on after the football game to tell us that there are photographs of Bush with disgraced Republican politician buyer, Abramoff.

Bush generally only sits down to talk on camera when there is a political threat to his administration.

As an aside, there was the standard display of the White House Press Weasel twisting and squirming to avoid answering the questions being asked in the White House Press Room. I guess that it must be somebody else with the pictures or CBS would be showing them and not the weasel.