VIA DAN FROOMKIN, here's the AP's Tom Raum putting his finger on just one of the many problems with President Bush's current PR strategy: "President Bush's efforts to paint Democrats as hypocrites for criticizing the Iraq war after they once warned that Saddam Hussein was a grave threat could backfire on Republicans.... If Bush castigates Democrats for changing their minds on the war, he might wind up alienating Republicans who have done so, too."

Read it all, as they say.