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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (706962)	10/12/2005 9:28:29 AM
From: Bill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

3) She is a hack.

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (706962)	10/12/2005 10:08:17 AM
From: cirrus	Respond to of 769670

Just curious. Name a few. He has made many enlightened appointments in the past.

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (706962)	10/12/2005 10:34:40 AM
From: Mr. Palau	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

The morning news: "GOP Aides Come Out Against Miers "As the White House seeks to rally senators behind the Supreme Court nomination of Harriet E. Miers, lawyers for the Republican senators on the Judiciary Committee are expressing dissatisfaction with the choice and pushing back against her, aides to 6 of the 10 Republican committee members" told the New York Times. Said one Republican staffer: "Everybody is hoping that something will happen on Miers, either that the president would withdraw her or she would realize she is not up to it and pull out while she has some dignity intact." Clinton Holds Commanding Lead Over Pirro A new Siena Collge poll shows Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) leading challenger Jeanine Pirro (R), 59% to 31%, in her bid for re-election. The New York Times uses the poll to conclude Pirro's campaign "appears to be struggling to gain traction, especially when measured against the expectation set by her supporters and campaign surrogates." The poll also shows Clinton handily dispatching the lesser-known Republican in the race, Ed Cox (R). Clinton leads Cox, 60% to 30%. CIA Leak Probe Widens The Wall Street Journal says special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's pursuit "now suggests he might be investigating not a narrow case on the leaking of the agent's name, but perhaps a broader conspiracy." "Lawyers familiar with the investigation believe that at least part of the outcome likely hangs on the inner workings of what has been dubbed the White House Iraq Group" which "worked on setting strategy for selling the war in Iraq to the public in the months leading up to the March 2003 invasion." Josh Marshall spells out the implications, saying it goes far beyond losing Karl Rove to a possible indictment. It could bring down the president's entire Iraq policy. "If Fitzgerald has lassoed this operation into a criminal conspiracy, the veil of protective secrecy in which the whole operation is still shrouded will be pulled back. Depositions and sworn statements in on-going investigations have a way of doing that. Ask Bill Clinton. Every key person in the White House will be touched by it. And all sorts of ugly tales could spill out." Meanwhile, the grand jury is set to expire on October 28, so it's possible that charges could come as early as next week. Rove vs. Card? On Hardball with Chris Matthews, Newsweek reporter Howard Fineman describes the current turmoil in the White House: FINEMAN: Right now, my sense, in reporting this, Chris, is that the Bush family, political family, is at war with itself inside the White House. My sense is, it‘s—it‘s—it‘s—it‘s Andy Card, the chief of staff, and his people against Karl Rove, the brain. MATTHEWS: Right. FINEMAN: And that runs through a whole lot of things, whether it‘s Harriet Miers or Katrina. But it all starts with Iraq. And some submerged, but now emerging divisions within the administration over why we went into that war, how we went into that war and what was done to sell it. There are people are out for Karl Rove inside that White House, which makes his situation even more perilous. A few days ago, we highlighted the growing division between Card and Rove over the choice of Harriet Miers. Hotline On Call expands on it: "This makes Card look bad and White House deputy chief of staff Karl Rove look, well, less bad. What that says about who is leaking this stuff... whether Rove and Card are at loggerheads... whether the White House bungled the nomination outreach... is TBD." politicalwire.com