Bush talked

...but was anyone listening? I only watched a bit of it before growing bored. He said nothing that was surprising. Business blah blah, oil blah blah blah. The video is here.

WaPo was listening.

The main text of President Bush's nationally televised address last night was the rebuilding of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, but the clear subtext was the rebuilding of a presidency that is now at its lowest point ever, confronted by huge and simultaneous challenges at home and abroad -- and facing a country divided along partisan and racial lines.

The question is, has he fallen too far for Americans to trust him again? (I mean the fools who did in the first place.) He waited for the polls to come out before talking- did he think he wasn't going to take a hit for his massive failures?

Joel Achenbach has some humorous things to say about it.

Last night, the president sampled so many Democratic riffs he ought to send a royalty check to Ted Kennedy. Bush even mentioned racial discrimination, which the Republicans have long claimed is a myth, like global warming.

Bye, bye, Georgie. America is done with you.