THE MUSIC HAS STOPPED, the flower arrangements have wilted, and the 2,000 police who came from all over the country to aid the 4,000 Washington cops (and the military) maintain security have gone home, as have the 12,000 Texans and Texan-wannabes who consumed 21,000 enchiladas at the “Black Tie and Boots Ball.” Now all the president has to do is govern. Tony Blair once said that governing is a lot harder than campaigning, so now comes the hard part for Bush.

If the president were a Stephen Sondheim fan, he might have adopted the theme from Gypsy—Some people sit on their butts; Got the dream, yeah, but not the guts; That’s living for some people, for some hum-drum people . . . ; But not for George (“Rose,” as in “Gypsy Rose Lee,” in the original).