Well, it's the usual endgame in a Bush debacle:

After two days of behind-the-scenes negotiations with the Bush administration and Congress, the Dubai company seeking to manage terminals at six American ports is expected to announce by Monday a deal inviting the government to conduct a broad new review of security concerns, senior administration officials and a company adviser lesay.

If an agreement is completed, the state-owned company, Dubai Ports World, will "voluntarily" ask the Bush administration to pursue the lengthier, deeper investigation....

The White House plans to portray the action as the company's own decision....

Instead of taking it like a man, Bush, whenever he has to change course, always insists on a cover story alleging that the change is someone else's idea or the result of some circumstance unrelated to his judgment. It doesn't even seem to matter to him whether anyone in America falls for the story, just so long as the official word is "Bush never actually acknowledges error." Harriet Miers:

...The White House said Miers had withdrawn her name because of a bipartisan effort in Congress to gain access to internal documents related to her role as counsel to the president....

President Bush said he reluctantly accepted Miers' decision to withdraw....

Bernard Kerik:

One week after President Bush nominated him to be secretary of homeland security, former New York Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik withdrew from consideration Friday night after discovering a former household employee had a questionable immigration status....

(That's the nanny whose existence has never been confirmed.)

(Hell, there was even a pre-resignation story in Time magazine about discrepancies in Michael Brown's resume -- the result, I'd say, of a leak by the White House; the resume questions were mentioned when CNN reported Brownie's resignation, though the White House apparently realized how laughable it would be to suggest that that was the reason his resignation became necessary.)