It's hard work, this presidentin'...

Heaven forbid! First Cindy Sheehan messes up his get away at the ranch, and now that damn Katrina has to come along....

The president had been scheduled to return to the nation's capital on Friday, after spending more than four weeks operating from his ranch in Central Texas. But after receiving a briefing early Tuesday on the devastation Katrina unleashed, the president decided that he needed to be in Washington to personally oversee the federal effort, White House spokesman Scott McClellan said.