Yes. I'm still sinking.

This doesn't include the shoes, which will push me almost back to the bottom of this chart. Yeah, I'm not joking. Must...find...source for funds.

The briefing is still going on. It's fairly good. Not great, but so far no one is getting any turkee. So I'm happy. And the press corps are starting to get ticked off because quite clearly, the President said he'd release his files. And he hasn't. And McClellan can't spin this at all. He's forced to use a painful dodge.

At this point, the White House could do us all a favor and simply end press briefings completely, because almost no information is getting passed along. They just announced a minute ago that they are going to refuse to answer any questions that have to do with the Presidential campaign, despite it being an election year. The reporters were clearly stunned.

Now they just keep trotting out bogus numbers "we'll cut the deficit in half", etc. that are totally bunk. And with that, the briefing is over. I'll post the link to the transcript when it becomes available.

It's times like this that I like to remind people that regardless of who wins the Democratic nomination, he'll easily beat Bush in November. And he'll make a great president. The Press Corps is finally starting to wake up to that fact as well.

update: the graph looks fairly similar to the nation's finances, in retrospect. More on this in a minute...