washingtonpost.com - Washington Sketch by Dana Milbank (washingtonpost.com)

Dana Milbank's Washington Sketch looks at the political scene in the White House, Congress and throughout the nation's capital.

ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 4

ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 1 Hurricane Gustav made landfall on the Louisiana coast about 10:30 a.m. Monday. Hurricane Bristol made landfall in Minnesota at 11:43 a.m.

ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 1 Hurricane Gustav made landfall on the Louisiana coast about 10:30 a.m. Monday. Hurricane Bristol made landfall in Minnesota at 11:43 a.m.

DENVER, Aug. 28 It was a ceremony fit for the gods.

GOLDEN, Colo., Aug. 27 Deep divisions, bad feelings. Tensions that threaten to boil over during this week's gathering in Colorado.

DENVER, Aug. 26 At noon on Tuesday, two young men walked onto the podium at the Democratic National Convention carrying four women's suit jackets -- red, orange, light blue and teal -- and holding each one up to the lights to see which would look best in the hall.

DENVER, Aug. 25 Most political conventions begin with the fall of the gavel. The 2008 Democratic convention began in the "downward dog" position.

ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 4

ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 1 Hurricane Gustav made landfall on the Louisiana coast about 10:30 a.m. Monday. Hurricane Bristol made landfall in Minnesota at 11:43 a.m.

There's no putting lipstick on this pig.

"The president," Bob Woodward writes in his new book, "talked irritably of how he believed there was an 'elite' class in America that thought he could do nothing right."

"The president," Bob Woodward writes in his new book, "talked irritably of how he believed there was an 'elite' class in America that thought he could do nothing right."

There's no putting lipstick on this pig.

"The president," Bob Woodward writes in his new book, "talked irritably of how he believed there was an 'elite' class in America that thought he could do nothing right."

There's no putting lipstick on this pig.

"The president," Bob Woodward writes in his new book, "talked irritably of how he believed there was an 'elite' class in America that thought he could do nothing right."

There's no putting lipstick on this pig.

"The president," Bob Woodward writes in his new book, "talked irritably of how he believed there was an 'elite' class in America that thought he could do nothing right."

There's no putting lipstick on this pig.

"The president," Bob Woodward writes in his new book, "talked irritably of how he believed there was an 'elite' class in America that thought he could do nothing right."