A BIG News Day
Lots of stuff going on today, no time for more than a cursory glance at the moment…
Patrick Kennedy will plead guilty to DUI…
The disappointing and bickering U.S. soccer team is due for some lineup changes before Saturday’s must-win game against a tough Italian squad…
And in far bigger news than anything else, including the Rove reprieve, President Bush has made a surprise visit to Iraq:
President Bush arrived in Baghdad today for a face-to-face meeting with new Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki — an effort, the White House said, to get a clear sense of the premier’s priorities and how the U.S. government could help his government succeed.
The White House originally had said Bush was scheduled to be at Camp David and to hold a video-conference with Maliki this morning. Instead, without telling the Iraqi government or all but his closest advisers, the president slipped out of Washington last night and made the 11-hour trip to Baghdad International Airport, landing at 4:08 p.m. Baghdad time (8:08 a.m. EDT).
Bush then traveled by helicopter to the heavily fortified Green Zone, where the new prime minister was waiting with one of his aides in the Republican Palace, a 1950s-era building that is now part of the U.S. Embassy compound.
This administration is building some serious momentum…I like it. Time to get off of defense…
A significant factor?
Tony Snow.
Screwing with the press is a shot across their bow. Scotty never would have advised doing so. Tony knows that access is still the coin of the realm for the press.
Wonder if rove can play the ‘victim’ as well as the clintons, since he has been cleared.
One more fizzle to add…
Harry Reid pointed to TROPICAL STORM Alberto, Monday, as a sign of global warming, as he anticipated it would become a hurricane.
Add it to the list of pessimistics beliefs, which don’t come true.