The Day Ahead

The Day Ahead in the hoity-toity world of politics...

• WaPo: republicans in the house are going to call for a floor vote on the appointment of William Jefferson (D-LA) to a seat on the Homeland Security Committee. (Mark this down as this will be one of the few times you will ever see this phrase on this blog; “Good for the republicans”… ugh, I feel so dirty… Anyhow, Pelosi’s appointment of Jefferson, who is a subject of a federal bribery investigation, is republican-like cronyism. If Jefferson is somehow exonerated, then he can be put on the committee, but as long as he remains under investigation, he should NOT be allowed to be on any committee)
• Associated Press: House Democrats are crafting a new anti-war proposal that would not cut off money for U.S. troops but would call for “President” Bush to acknowledge problems with an overburdened military… (Bush acknowledge a mistake?? That has about as much chance of happening as me being elected president)
• WaPo: Walter Reed officials knew of the neglect of soldiers and the pathetic disrepair of the facility for over three years and did nothing… (this is not a surprise… and heads should roll. Will they? Highly unlikely, odds are they’ll find a patsy to take the fall…)
• NY Post: Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA) called Sen. Hillary Clinton “nasty” and “ruthless.” (Hello pot, this is the kettle… you’re black. Anyone who would leave his cancer-stricken wife has no place, NO PLACE, to call anyone else ‘ruthless.’ Let me tell ya something Newt, you’re a relic in the republican party, no one on either side cares if you run or not, so why don’t you just STFU…)
• Boston Globe: Conservative activists “are shifting their 2008 focus to recapturing the House and Senate” in the hope that gop-control of at least one chamber of Congress would derail any Liberal policies that could arise from a Democratic or moderate republican White House. (So let’s hope that Liberal activists, along with Grass Roots Liberals, don’t lose sight of the other important races in 2008. While winning the presidency should be the primary goal, we also need to maintain control of at least one, if not both, the House and Senate…)
• WaPo, USA Today: Deliberations in the Scooter Libby trial continue, and have now encountered some snags…
• Chicago Tribune: Fed Chief Ben Bernanke said the “economy is sound.” (Sure it is Ben, sure it is…)

The Day Ahead

Couple of things to monitor as the day progresses (yeah, they do this over at Wonkette and Think Progress… so why not do the same thing here?):

• WaPO: One of our bases in Afghanistan was hit with a bomb while Vice President Cheney was visiting. (Said Cheney after the bomb hit; “I’m awake…”)
• CNN: Former aide to Bob Ney (R-OH) has pleaded guilty in the Jack Abramoff case. (Another one bites the dust…)
• Chicago Tribune: The city of Chicago hits the polls today (When was the last time Richard Daly was scared about an election?)
• WaPo: new polls suggest that age is an important factor when considering presidential candidates, not so much gender or race (buh-bye href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/26/AR2007022600313.html?nav=hcmodule">favors a pullout in Iraq. (And this is new information… how??)
• NY Times: Libby case will continue with 11 jurors and will not see the insertion of one of the alternates ()
• Boston Globe: Newspaper somehow obtains document with Mitt Romney’s (R-MA) campaign strategies (Miraculously, ‘Looks stiffer than Al Gore’ not on the list…)
  
  

The Day Ahead

Things to pay attention to and thing’s we'll (possibly) write about today:

• WaPo: North Korea agrees to Nuke Disarmament (everbody stop panicing)
• WaPo: Mitt Romney has entered the 2008 gop presidential fray (people are saying he’s unelectable, but let’s remember that was said about Dubya as well…)
• Chicago Trib: Scooter Libby trial continues… (who will be the next contestant in the ever-growing list of wintesses for the defense?)
• ThinkProgress: Cheney aide says war with Iran is possible this year (everbody panic)
• CNN: House debating Bush(whacked) administration Iraq escalation plan (not that this administration would listen anyway…)
• USA Today: USA Today/Gallup poll finds 63% of Americans want all U.S. troops out of Iraq by the end of 2008 (want troops home, don’t favor escalation, but don’t want funds cut for escalation… can we say ‘mixed messages’???)
• NY Post: Giuliani is 100% committed (insert own joke here) on winning 2008 presidential campaign (better choice than McCain or Romney that’s for damn sure…)