Bye, Partisanship?

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Reuters television White House correspondent Jon Decker reports President Bush's dog Barney, out for his walk yesterday morning on the White House North Lawn, let his reactions to the news show.

He "bit my right index finger this morning -- as I reached down to pet him," Decker told us. The bite broke skin and the wound was bleeding enough that White House physician, Richard Tubb, treated him with antibiotics. Decker's also getting a tetanus shot.

Barney may be just protecting his turf from intruders, thinking about the coming intrusion from the promised Obama pooch.

The Smell Test

President Bush achieved one major victory on Tuesday. Voters in San Francisco overwhelmingly defeated an effort to rename the local sewage-treatment plant after him. Maybe even West Coast liberals got offended by an ad featuring a photo of Bush and urging voters to "help put the number one guy on the number two building."

With Philip Rucker

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