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Press: De-pressing but predictable results from the rare press conference last night. Junior has his script and sticks to it. The people for him liked it; those agin' did not. How about the people in the middle; the vast undecided? Who knows? He may be resolute or, if you will, stubborn; but he is sure one of the most inarticulate guys that I have seen in there since Eisenhower. No Wonks: The LATimes picked up a theme today that I have seen and noted before. All good governments need a balance of idealogues and wonks. You gotta have the political types to frame the philosophy and write the message; and they need to be supported and balanced with the guys who know how to work the levers and do the math. This government has driven all the analysts and fact people out or covered them up; all message no thought or facts. A good example is the guy in HEW who had the high numbers for the Medicare Reform and was told to sit on it. Exhibit B: We are going to turn the government over to someone in Iraq on 7/30; don't know who yet; maybe the UN dude will tell us; george actually said this. The UN? Shit! I thought they had their head up their ass! Now they can give us some ideas. Rice stressed strategy versus tactics; what you are going to do not how you are going to do it (sorta). No detail thinkers. No plans. No facts. Back to last night's performance. Damn the torpedoes; full speed ahead! Release: I like the fact that the 9-11 Commission releases bits of its draft report around each testimony cluster. I have never seen this before. Bush did not want this commission. They suppressed Hart-Rudman. The results will come out in July. We will know what they are. Blah blah. Wonder how the fence sitters see all this? Juiced: Those of us who are steadfast Apple fanatics can rejoice in the fact that the guys are actually making money again and getting good press. Jobs is doin' a good job. Why oh why did he step back? Well, the revolution will only take a little longer. Lookout MS.