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From Karl's cubicle. Washington - White House s pokesman,
Scott McClellan, held a press conference this morning to deny rumors
from Democrats that the budget proposed by President Bush would be
responsible for cuts in funding Fire Houses for Fire Fighters.
Assuming that the confusion may have been another misstep of
words by President Bush, McClellan announced: "What the President
meant to say was 'house fires,' as in 'we shouldn't be funding house
fires,' not with the words turned around as is being reported, I
think — some are saying he said, 'we shouldn't be funding Fire
houses.'"
The press immediately seized on this and fired back with
questions about what fires we could expect to be funded. One
reporter from The White House Pool wanted to know if the President's
mention of ethanol in his State of the Union address allowed for the
inclusion of other gases such as methanol and green house gases.
McClellan answered that to the best of his knowledge, the budget
would not contribute to Global Warming by funding fires of green
house gases.
 Senate
Democratic leader Harry Reid was still pretty steamed today about
the budget cuts, stating: "When you have a real bad chafe ... it's
hard to get soothed."
Some Republican political pundits are speculating that Senator
Reid was "no doubt referring to his alleged use of the budget as
toilet paper."
Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, a member of the Republican
Senate leadership, said Senate Republicans want to work with
Democrats and have deliberately tried to avoid provoking them.
"You can make all of the laws that they want about smoking in the
toilet, but at the end of a whole day of B.S. accumulation, that was
just the spark that set them off."
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