Run, rabbit, run

Oh, my, this is a colorful metaphor for the administration.

"It really isn't Harriet in my mind. It is the president." Mr. Simpson blamed a sense of weakness around the White House because of concerns about the C.I.A. leak investigation, the war in Iraq and the handling of the recent hurricanes. "It is like a huge raptor seeing a rabbit running on only three legs," he said.

But who or what does the raptor represent? The fundies? The Republican arm of the Republican party? Certainly no one would suggest Democrats are poised to swoop down and snatch a screaming Bush bunny.