Laura and The Administration

I don't know exactly why I'm blogging this. It is pointless, trite, and useless. In fact, maybe that's why I'm blogging it. I don't know [and I'm repeating myself]. Regardless, here you go. The freshly de-bound first lady turns her sharp tongue and acid with against The Administration in brutish and violent fashion:

Newsweek magazine should not be solely blamed for deadly protests in the Middle East, the first lady said Friday. And her husband should have been interrupted to be told about an airplane scare that sent her hurrying for cover in an underground bunker.

Her candid remarks -- at the outset of a trip to the Middle East -- showed anew Mrs. Bush's willingness to step out more boldly in her husband's second term. Usually deferential to her husband and rarely controversial, she has veered off the White House message only rarely in the past.

But there was no mistaking that her views were at odds with White House officials, as she chatted with reporters on her plane across the Atlantic.

The White House has defended the decision not to stop U.S. President George W. Bush on a bike ride last week to tell him of an emergency evacuation that sent thousands of people running from the Capitol and the White House. The scare was triggered by a small plane flying into restricted airspace over Washington. Bush was not informed until he finished his ride in suburban Maryland, about 50 minutes after the evacuation began.

"I think he should have been interrupted," Mrs. Bush declared, hastening to add, "but I'm not going to second-guess the Secret Service that were with him."

Wow. Amazing. Thanks for those insightful... insights.

Yep.