Hmmmm….

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel said Monday that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had been forced to abstain from a United Nations resolution on Gaza that she helped draft, after Mr. Olmert placed a phone call to President Bush. “I said, ‘Get me President Bush on the phone,’ ” Mr. Olmert said in a speech in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon, according to The Associated Press. “They said he was in the middle of giving a speech in Philadelphia. I said I didn’t care: ‘I need to talk to him now,’ ” Mr. Olmert continued. “He got off the podium and spoke to me.” …

Mr. Olmert claimed that once he made his case to Mr. Bush, the president called Ms. Rice and told her to abstain. “She was left pretty embarrassed,” Mr. Olmert said, according to The A.P.

Remember always that there is nothing at all weird about the leader of the Free World leaping in spaniel-like obedience to the petulant demands of a foreign head of state.

Update: The Bush Administration denies the story. Olmert continues to maintain it’s true. Either way, Olmert looks like either a liar or a preternaturally stupid braggart of a pol spitting in the eye of his greatest ally in order to win some sort of muscle-flexing competition with a domestic rival and impress the constituents on the home front (who don’t seem very impressed judging from the comments in the JPost).