What's Missing from This Article?

To give the Post some credit, the piece notes the closeness of the vote (217-215), points out that the GOP leadership has trouble telling time (yet another instance when a 15 minute vote was stretched out to almost an hour), reports that arms were twisted and slabs of bacon were promised...Bluestein and Allen even note that Dubya made an appearance to shill for a "yea" vote:

Underscoring the importance that Bush attaches to the pact, he put his prestige on the line by making a rare appearance with Vice President Cheney at the weekly closed-door meeting of the House Republican Conference. Bush spoke for an hour, lawmakers said, stressing the national security implications of CAFTA, which are rooted in the concern that growing anti-American sentiment in Latin America would flourish if the United States refused to open its markets wider to the nations that negotiated the pact.

So, what's missing? This--Dubya's lets out his inner feelings.

It's not the first time he's given the world the same one-fingered salute--just the most recent. But it speaks volumes.

Hmmm. Rove had a similar flip-out just before the truth landed like an anvil on his doughy frame. Maybe we can hope for something similar for the dauphin...