From this morning's NY Times:

WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 — The back-to-back resignations of Karl Rove and Alberto R. Gonzales, two longtime aides to President Bush who have become lightning rods on Capitol Hill, amount to a political housecleaning for the White House, providing Mr. Bush a fresh chance to make what he can of his remaining months in office.

As I read this, I simply laughed. Bush isn't about to make a "fresh start." He's certainly not going to play nice to the Democratic Congress.

This is simply the NY Times playing stenographer for the Bush PR team once again. And, the fact that the LA Times has virtually the same story on it's front page just tells us that the major papers on both coasts have become Bush stenographers.

And, I see from Kevin Drum and Daily Kos that others have the same take on these stories.