Next stop in the Bush P.R. offensive

A press conference this morning:

Bush's 10:30 a.m. EST news conference to be held in the East Room is expected to address questions about the Iraq war, a secret eavesdropping program in the United States and the administration's stalled effort to renew the terrorism-fighting Patriot Act.

Getting the sense that this is all a last ditch effort to save his approval rating -- and his presidency.