I wonder how long Chitra Ragavan worked to come up with this lede to a new U.S. News piece:

Every spring, residents of the nation’s capital sniffle and commiserate over their seasonal allergies. But this year the Bush White House is suffering from an especially potent seasonal affective disorder: an unremitting wave of formative scandals.

In case you didn’t get it, Ragavan returns to the well in the next paragraph:

Although Democrats seem to be as indiscriminate as pollen in the focus of their investigations, one particular target is Bush’s chief political adviser, Karl Rove.