BUSH: GONE FISHIN'

Astoundingly, "Resident" Bush found time to go bass fishing with a camera crew for the Outdoor Life Network.

Never mind that this week alone the Sept. 11 commission heard some of its most crucial testimony from Condi Rice, some 50 U.S. soldiers in Iraq have been killed, another American was captured and threatened with mutilation, three Japanese nationals were kidnapped and the military's prediction that it would find Osama bin Laden within the next year.

The producer of the TV show, writes the Associated Press, said he believed that events in Iraq had forced Bush to cancel the Saturday shoot. "He alluded to it. He said, 'I've been busy, all these crises,'" Martin recalled.

Still, Bush apparently went bicycling on Saturday.