Final rodeo.(NATION)(INSIDE THE BELTWAY)

Byline: John McCaslin, THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Final rodeo

"The most robust show of excitement for the Bush family's blessed event comes in the form of a coffee mug honoring the event sold by a local tourist trap."

So reports the Lone Star Iconoclast, a weekly newspaper in Crawford, Texas, which says residents of the dusty town "that has endured a decade in the shadow of George W. Bush are laying low this weekend" while the president's 26-year-old daughter, Jenna, gets hitched to Virginian Henry Hager.

"Otherwise, the locals are avoiding the area like the plague," says the paper, adding "townsfolk also expect their community to return back to normal once Bush ...

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