It's a good thing W doesn't read newspapers

Because if he read today's Modo in the Times, he'd show those aides who spoke only on condition of anonymity because they didn't want to incur the wrath of the president what snippy's really like. Nut graf:

With Karl Rove's help, Junior designed his presidency as a reverse of his father's. W. would succeed by studying Dad's failures and doing the opposite. But in a bizarre twist of filial fate, the son has stumbled so badly in areas where he tried to one-up Dad that he has ended up giving Dad a leg up in the history books.

Game, set, match -- merciless. She does that once in a while, but not $49.95's worth.