Stop me if you think you’ve heard this one before. Bloggers, always getting down to work in their pajamas. With tacky, fluffy bunny slippers, quaffing ranch dressing right out of the bottle as they issue their diatribes. Okay, okay. I hear you shouting, "Enough already." It’s a cliché, to be sure, but the last time I checked, a Google fight between "bloggers and pajamas" and "bloggers and three-piece suits with stylish wingtips" was a decided rout in favor of the hoary old chestnut.

So, to all of you out there in the blogosphere who are keeping things slovenly, consider how Washington DC’s most illustrious resident,
President Bush, raised the bar over the weekend. Hurried back to the White House from vacation in anticipation of a piece of legislation that would seek to prolong the life of the inert pawn in the right-to-die Deathmatch, Terri Schiavo, the President was awakened at 1:11 in the morning to make with the John Hancocking. The White House Press Corps, in the typical way they go after the big story, were quick to pounce on the notion that the President affixed his signature while wearing something with footies.

From the gaggle:

Q: Can you go over what went on last night, in terms of the President signing the bill and how it went down?

MR. McCLELLAN: Sure. I guess the bill -- the House passed it shortly after midnight, and then the President signed it at 1:11 a.m., in the morning. The Staff Secretary, Brett Kavanaugh, walked the legislation over to the residence for the President to sign. He came outside his bedroom and signed it in the residence.

Q Had he been asleep?

MR. McCLELLAN: Yes, he was woken up after it was passed, when it was ready to be signed.

Q I heard you describe it earlier, he came out of his bedroom and literally signed it standing up in the hall; is that how it went--

MR. McCLELLAN: That's correct, yes. He was just standing in the hall in the residence and signed the legislation then.

Q Was he wearing --

Q Is it safe to assume he wasn't wearing a suit and tie at the time? (Laughter.)

MR. McCLELLAN: I'm not going into that much detail. Yes, he cleaned up, put on his suit -- (laughter)

Color this DCist impressed with the President’s concern for decorum as he signed a bill to assist a private citizen. Here’s hoping he dresses as well next week, after the Senate passes the Have John Kyl Wash My Dishes For Me Act of 2005.