The American press isn’t half so bad when taken in this context.

From the London Daily Telegraph:

President George W Bush yesterday bowed to the twin pressures of tumbling approval ratings and a near mutiny in his own party by announcing the resignation of one of his closest aides.

In a brief address to the nation from the Oval Office, Mr Bush said Andy Card, his chief of staff, would be stepping down after serving the longest tenure in the post in more than 40 years.

It was the first enforced reshuffle since Mr Bush entered the White House nearly five and a half years ago and amounted to an official admission of the travails of his second term. It will also have come as a huge personal blow to the president as he takes pride in sticking by his advisers and friends and ignoring the Washington “commentariat”, which has been calling for changes for months.

I haven’t seen that brand of analysis for a while, and it is a case study in insipidity. Of course, I have to admit that I don’t read over at Daily Kos.