Oh. My. Dog.

Apparently the White House physicians lowered Laura's dosage enough for her to have made an appearance with reporters the other day...

Laura Bush Defends Gala in Time of War and Disaster
With less than a week to go until her husband's second inauguration, Laura Bush on Friday defended the decision to hold the $40 million celebration as planned despite a war abroad and the tsunami disaster in the Indian Ocean.

Inaugurations, Mrs. Bush said, are "an important part of our history."

"They're a ceremony of our history; they're a ritual of our government," she said in a round-table interview with reporters in the White House map room. "And I think it's really important to have the inauguration every time. I think it's also good for Washington's economy, for people to come in from around the country, for the hotels to be full, and the restaurants to be full, and the caterers to be busy. I think that's important."

She added: "I think there's a symbolic aspect of the inauguration that - and because of that, the symbol of the inauguration, you never want to - for any reason - cancel it or not have it."

...but she's evidently still too heavily medicated to read a history book:

Well, then:

The fourth inauguration was conducted without fanfare. Because of the expense and impropriety of festivity during the height of war, the oath of office was taken on the South Portico of the White House. It was administered by Chief Justice Harlan Stone. No formal celebrations followed the address. FDR must have been one lousy President to not understand how "important" it was for him to party on, dude, in January of 1945. Why did he hate America?

Go read Amygdala's full post. He pretty much lays to rest any question as to whether or not Laura Bush has a clue.