President Bush loses his cool with the Senator elect from Virginia, Jim Webb

The Hill Dot Com reported yesterday that President Bush has gotten off to a very rocky start with the Senator Elect from Virginia, Jim Webb. Webb, you probably remember, is the Senator who recently stomped George Allen and pushed the Democrats into the majority in the Senate.

Webb, campaigned, using the Iraq war as a cudgel, wearing his son’s old combat boots. Here he was, President Bush, face to face with the guy who had relentlessly bitch-slapped him the entire campaign, and in the end, brought the entire flimsy house of cards down around The President's shoulders.

At a White House party for newly elected lawmakers shortly after the election, POTUS asked Jim Webb how his son, a Marine stationed in Iraq was doing.

An unidentified friend was told by Webb that he had responded that "he really wanted to see his son brought back home."

“I didn’t ask you that, I asked how he’s doing,” Bush retorted, according to the source.

Webb was reportedly so angry that he considered smacking the President. If he had, of course, you would already know about this story. “Jim did have a conversation with Bush at that dinner,” according to Webb’s spokeswoman Kristian Denny Todd. “Basically, he asked about Jim’s son, Jim expressed the fact that he wanted to have him home.”

Todd would not disclose the rest of the story: "It was a private conversation.”

Tony Snow (a/k/a The White House Press Secretary) said after the November election that "Bush wants to go back to the Texas model. He's always reached out. He's been trying over the last couple of years with limited success." And now that he is desperate to make that bipartisan election, this is what we get.

"Let the revels begin."
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