David Gregory's question scares Bush away From Hurricane Rita. White House blames change on the Sun?

At the Federal Emergency Management Agency's command center in Washington a reporter asked him: "Sir, what good can you do going down to the hurricane zone? Might you get in the way?"

Mr. Bush quickly shot back, "One thing I won't do is get in the way." After explaining the purpose of his trip was to make sure federal, state and local officials coordinate well, he added, "We will make sure that my entourage does not get in the way of people doing their job, which will be search and rescue immediately."

But clearly someone at the White House reconsidered the President's impact. When Mr. McClellan announced that the president had scrapped his trip, he said that with the search-and-rescue team preparing to move with the storm, "we didn't want to slow that down."

Another White House official involved in preparing Mr. Bush's way noted that with the sun shining so brightly in San Antonio, the images of Mr. Bush from here might not have made it clear to viewers that he was dealing with an approaching storm.

The reporter who asked that question is David Gregory who seems to be the only White House Press Corps reporter with any balls whatsoever. The obvious conclusion from this exchange, and the Bush response, is that the press has the administration on the run! They no longer control the press to the degree that have in the past and Dick Gregory is the most obvious example of a reporter to break from the pack and go for the jugular to get the truth everytime he is given the chance.

We need a room full of Dick Gregory's. Then we would see little Scotty McCellan hiding behind his podium waving a tiny white flag.

"Enough, I will tell you what you want to know! Yes the President is drinking again! Yes the President is a simpleton! Yes Karl Rove is a souless demon from the great abyss! Yes I had sex with Jeff Gannon! Yes I often wet myself while standing up here! It's all true! It's all true!"