You know that you’ve been caught flat-footed in the White House press corps when you’re left filling air like NBC’s Kelly O’Donnell this morning, who guessed that Bush and Miers had formed a one-on-one “bond” over clearing brush at the ranch. Miers, she said was athletic, “very physical.” In the last administration, you couldn’t use the terms “one-on-one bond” and “very physical” in the same passage without giggles and lawyers.