We're reading Antigone in my ethics course this week, and the student theater is performing it next month. I think I have a perfect candidate for Creon.

Advisers Say Discontent Hasn't Discouraged Bush - New York Times:

"WASHINGTON, March 11 ? Inside the White House, the staff is exhausted and the mood is defiant. Republicans are clamoring for a new chief of staff, the West Wing just cut its losses on a deal that would have given a Dubai company control of some terminal operations at six American ports and President Bush's approval rating is at record lows.

But senior staff members insist that Mr. Bush is in good spirits, that calls from his party to inject new blood to the White House make him ever more stubborn to keep the old and that he has become so inured to outside criticism that he increasingly tunes it out. There is no sense of crisis, they say, even over rebellious Republicans in Congress, because the White House has been in almost constant crisis since Sept. 11, 2001, and Mr. Bush has never had much regard for Congress anyway."