Word on the street is, Bush is blowing up at anyone who even asks him about pardoning Scooter Libby. Dude doesn’t want to talk about it right now, ok? MORE »

Dan Bartlett, the President’s longest-serving aide, celebrated his 36th birthday by announcing his resignation. Bartlett is “counselor to the President,” which means he tells Bush when his suit is ugly and then lies to the press in a very friendly manner. He has promised not to write a book, which is good, because he’s apparently gone completely nuts. MORE »

Poor Alberto Gonzales. He was Bush’s personal pet child-of-immigrants (“mi abogado”), and now, apparently, no one likes him anymore and this is all his fault. MORE »

Anonymous Senior Administration officials: They’re always good for a laugh. And they’re so mysterious! Take the two White House press releases shown above. Apparently, right in the middle of a SAO briefing aboard Air Force 2, Vice President Dick Cheney burst into the cabin armed with a boxcutter and began taking questions on the record — only to disappear just as mysteriously, D.B. Cooper-like, mid-flight. MORE »

Like everything else poisonous and wrong with America today, the curse of the “senior administration official” is all Henry Kissinger’s fault. This we learn from Mike Allen in today’s Politico, as he takes us on a magical journey through the world of journalistic euphemism. MORE »

Oh, honestly, Tony… MORE »

Earlier today, White House Press Secretary Tony Snow and Counselor to the President Dan Bartlett held a briefing (in lovely Riga, Latvia) to the assembled press. But those pesky journalists just wanted to talk about Stephen J. Hadley’s “we can’t trust Maliki” memo. Snow and Bartlett simply couldn’t comment on that…

…but White House Press Secretary Tony Snow and Counselor to the President Dan Bartlett two Unnamed Senior Administration Officials could!

Revel in the utter absurdity of the White House beat, after the jump.

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