BUBBLE BOY ISN'T FLOATING

My, my. Froomkin says that the pResident's S.S. road show isn't going well.

Ever since his State of the Union address, Bush has been riding Air Force One to and fro, holding campaign-style "conversations" on Social Security during which he typically says nothing new and provides no details of his proposal.

Up until now, not just local reporters but even the national ones as well have typically bent over backward to treat what Bush says at these events like news.

But today's stories capture not so much what Bush says but what is most remarkable about these events: the stagecraft that goes into them and the exclusion of the general public in favor of screened supporters.

The world must be coming to an end! Reporters are actually covering the events, not the spin.