Will Bush have pressers everyday now up until the election? He told us really nothing new and his style is getting angrier by the minute. He heavily accents the words and phrases he thinks are new and important, but winds up sounding like an angry parent chastising his unresponsive child.

Froomkin:

At a surprise press conference this morning, President Bush acknowledged the nation's grave concerns about the war in Iraq."I know many Americans are not satisfied with the situation in Iraq," Bush said, 13 days before a mid-term election that will in large part be a referendum on the war. "I'm not satisfied either."

"I think I owe an explanation to the American people," he said. But Bush didn't have much new to say today, other than endorsing yesterday's already largely debunked announcement in Baghdad of a "new plan" that sounds very much like the old plan...read on