Digby: Poodle Talk

Tom Schaller over at TAPPED notes something I've been observing for a while as well: the precipitous loss of Tony Blair's rhetorical skills:

MARKETERS-IN-CHIEF. Regarding the Blair-Bush press conference this morning, is it just me or is Tony Blair becoming less eloquent and coherent the more he stands side-by-side with Bush?

I thought it was just me. It's rubbing off, and not just in Bush's presence.