With a fierce presidential battle and governors' sex lives to worry about, the White House beat is actually quite boring. Normally the dog and pony shows given by press secretary Tony Fratto were, like his predecessors, an excuse for David Gregory to get some airtime on C-SPAN. But now he's got his own MSNBC show! So what's a D.C. reporter to do? Fewer and fewer reporters are attending the press conferences, and even Fratto admitted there wouldn't be any "new major announcements" in a speech from President Bush.

If talking points are uttered in an empty room and nobody's there to hear it, is Bush still a total tard?

Now that John McCain has locked up his party's nomination, and the press corps' attention is monotonously focused on Obama and Clinton, the Republican senator is trying to maintain his relationship with the press. While on the campaign trial, fighting against the non-existent threat of Mike Huckabee, McCain could sit with reporters for hours, or at least dozens of minutes at a time. He had the Straight Talk Express bus, after all, to keep 'em in tow. But what campaign beat reporter wants to sit around while McCain battles against an unclear Democratic opponent?

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