A lobbyist, on his way home from work in Washington,D.C.,

came to a dead halt in traffic and thought to himself, "Wow, this seems worse than usual." He noticed a police officer walking between the lines of stopped cars, so he rolled down his window and asked, "Officer, what's the hold-up?"

The officer replies, "The President is depressed, so he stopped his motorcade and is threatening to douse himself in gasoline and set himself on fire.

He says no one believes his stories about why we went to war in Iraq, or the connection between Saddam and al-Qa'ida, or that his tax cuts will help anyone except his wealthy friends; the press called him onthe lie about Iraq trying to buy uranium from Niger, and now Campbell Brown is threatening to sue him for a sexual innuendo he made at a recent press conference. So we're taking up a collection for him."

The lobbyist asks, "How much have you got so far?" The officer replies, "About 14-1/2 gallons, but a lot of folks are still siphoning.

This email was cleaned by emailStripper, available for free from http://www.papercut.biz/emailStripper.htm

I missed the story on this - when did it allegedly occur, and what were the nature of Bush's comments? Thanks.

By on to Google to see how that is.