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OK, this is a really small thing but I dearly wish the press would stop giving Bush undeserved credit for stuff -- in this case bipartisanship.

He held a confab at the White House today. As AP's Jennifer Loven reported it:

The president invited more than a dozen foreign policy leaders from previous administrations, split nearly evenly between Democrat and Republican, to the White House for a detailed briefing on Iraq.

At the end of the article she lists the participants: eight former servants of Republicans presidents and five former servants of Democrats -- one of the latter of whom (Clinton's defense secretary William Cohen) was himself a Republican. So depending on how you count, it's either 8:5 or 9:4 in favor of Republicans. That's not even counting the five current administration officials who are mentioned as having been there.

Of course Bush can invite anyone he darn well pleases but come on: "Split nearly evenly"?