It's such hard work writing speeches for Bush

Quite possibly the dumbest article ever in the NY Times. It's about the hard work it takes to write the State of the Union speech. Bush is sooo demanding about his speeches. That's because all Bush does is give speeches. No policy, just spin.

The life of White House speechwriters is so difficult and complicated that one night -- and you won't believe this -- one night, they had to eat at Fuddruckers. Oh, the horrors:

For his part, Mr. McGurn is a bit tired after a month of 12-hour days and 6:45 a.m. phone calls, and in need of a decent meal. In one eight-day stretch after Christmas, he and fellow writers ate breakfast, lunch and dinner every day in the White House mess, except when it was closed, as it was for dinner on New Year’s Day.

“We went to Fuddruckers,” said the man who puts words in the president’s mouth. “It was, like, 8 o’clock. Nothing else was open.”

What cruelty. This article is pretty useless on so many levels -- I shouldn't even link to it. But it does give some insight in to what's important to George Bush and his team. Food and speeches.

I bet that those 21,000 extra troops that McGurn wrote about -- and the 130,000+ who are already in Iraq -- are also in need of a decent meal. Almost every single one of them would trade eating every day in the White House mess, or Fuddrucker's, for the mess they are in.