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One sunny day not long ago at the White House, the door to the Oval Office opened and the president of the United States began to emerge. President George W. Bush must be mightily peeved, then, that random noise has become the rule — not the exception — at the once efficiently humming White House. There was the sound of the president delivering the State of the Union speech, which failed to excite. OMB director, normally charmingly bookish and — according to the president — the embodiment of calm in any storm, scared the living stuff out of everyone when he exclaimed that the Medicare prescription drug bill would cost $134 billion more than everyone thought. Sure, jokes like" You're fired" are funny, but Scully's humor was nothing compared to the comic antics of Education Secretary Paige, who said the nation's top teachers union was a terrorist organization. Meanwhile, officials with the campaign of Senator John Kerry, D-Mass., finally launched an internal inves |
