Bush Throws Rice at Postponed Election Story

It now appears that Condi Rice has added Elections Czar to her duties as national security advisor, as she hastened onto CNN yesterday to soothe fears that the Bush administration was maneuvering for the right to postpone the national election. "We've had elections in this country when we were at war, even when we were in civil war. And we should have the elections on time. That's the view of the president, that's the view of the administration."

To send Condoleezza Rice out as Soother in Chief indicates that the story broken by Michael Isikoff of Newsweek was having seismic impact.