WaPo’s Dana Milbank was one of the reporters invited into the president’s ranch for a private barbecue this past weekend. A source of mine who was also present at the off-the-record chowdown says one of the guest’s asked Mrs. Bush whether the ranch was good Mars-viewing country. The First Lady said she expected it to be, provided the weather cooperated. At the end of the event, as reporters were filing back to the vans, Mrs. Bush offered to go look for the red planet. “Forget Mars!” the president was heard to say. “Let’s go to bed.”