In Touch With the Common Man

Editor & Publisher keenly points out President Bush's op-ed today in which he details ways Republicans and Democrats can work together wasn't exactly published in the most accessible place, that being the Wall Street Journal. Yes, that Wall Street Journal -- as in the paper you're highly unlikely to subscribe to if you don't have a reserved parking place and personal assistant at your office.

E&P writes:

Addressed to the new Democratic-led Congress, it called -- not surprisingly -- for a bi-partisan approach largely lacking in the previous GOP-led bodies. Oddly, he chose the venue of the major newspaper with the most conservative editorial page in the country to make this call to put partisanship aside.

He also did not offer any admission of White House errors that could be taken as evidence that compromise was really possible -- and actually asked the Democrats to give up power by giving him new "line item veto" powers. And he pointedly suggested that now the Democrats may get the blame for not solving big problems.

Remember -- uniter not a divider. You can almost feel the whole tone of Washington changing, no?