WASHINGTON – With the annual White House Easter egg hunt coming to an end, President Bush spent a little photo-op time talking with several children and attempting to answer their questions about the religious significance of the Easter holiday.

"Who here can tell me why we celebrate Easter?" the President asked the gathered children, each of whom was jacked up on at least five chocolate eggs.

"Easter means that Lent is almost over and my Grandpa can start drinking again," Dick Cheney's grandson answered triumphantly.  

"Well that may be true," the President sighed, longing for a cocktail.  "But, more importantly," he instructed, "Easter is when we celebrate the risen Christ."

"When Christ rose from the dead," a child interrupted the President with a question, "was He reincarnated as the Easter Bunny?"

"We Christians don't believe in reincarnation," the President explained.  "I mean, we believe in being born again and all, like if you were a cokehead and your Daddy told you to clean up, find God and run for President, but that's very different from reincarnation."

"Well, if Jesus wasn't reincarnated as a bunny rabbit, then does that mean Jesus was a bunny rabbit all along?" the child asked, still very confused.

"That's why we eat chocolate bunnies on Easter," said another child before the President could speak.  "It's like Communion."

"So what's up with the Easter eggs anyway, Mr. President?" yet another child asked, again before the President could even begin to address the last child's statement.   "Bunny rabbits don't lay eggs do they?"

The President looked pleadingly at Karl Rove, unsure of the answer.  "No they don't," Rove jumped to the President's aid.  "And aren't you a smart little boy for at least knowing that."