Hello? Is This Thing On?

President Bush addressed a group of the nation's governors at the White House tonight but in a rare display of bipartisan solidarity, nobody listened. It was not clear whether the gesture was a protest against the administration's domestic wiretapping program, its approval of a deal that would allow a Dubai-based company to take over operations at several U.S. ports, or the fact that he was just really, really boring. There are also reports that even the portrait of Abraham Lincoln shifted positions so as not to listen to what the president had to say.