News item: Bush bruised in bicycle crash
OK. But I still say he’s no President Bartlett.
Bartlett had the good grace to hit a tree. Bush, on the other hand, took down a cop. A cop. (Word is the police officer suffered only a minor ankle injury, which given Rovian spin control probably means the entire leg is on ice somewhere awaiting the arriving of a talented surgeon for whom reattaching it will be the challenge of a long and illustrious career. But I digress.)
Try to imagine what the Republican talking heads would be making of that if it had been Kerry. “Maybe if the Senator had been fighting terrorism instead of training for the Tour de France, America would be safer today — and a good British cop would be back on the street,” Bill Frist would rumble to a nodding Bill O’Reilly. The bike would be up for the Congressional Medal of Honour, with the only debate being over its failure to finish the job.
(Instead? I’m guessing the White House is preparing to announce an all-out invasion of the city of Nottingham, original home of the Raleigh Bicycle Company.)
