The White House has just sent out a list of the people who will be sitting with Mrs. Bush during the speech tonight. Among them: A few doctors with rising liability insurance costs, some “regular people” (as John Edwards might say) who will benefit from new tax cuts, some folks from the military, a nun, Karen Hughes, and the author David McCullough (why not Rick Brookhiser?!?). There will also be an empty seat symbolizing “the empty place many Americans will always have at their tables and in their lives because of the attacks on September 11th, 2001.”