This morning's top stories:
- U.S. News White House Correspondent Kenneth T. Walsh has details on Matthew Dowd, Bush's chief strategist in the 2004 re-election campaign and an adviser dating back to the president's years as governor of Texas, who has defected from Bush's inner political circle, and ponders whether a larger rebellion is brewing.
- The political brinkmanship over war funding continues between the president and Democratic lawmakers in Congress, with neither side backing down. Bush is expected to address reporters this morning from the White House, one day after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced that he would try to eliminate money for the war if Bush rejects Congress' proposal to set a deadline to end combat.
- While official Federal Election Commission data on candidate fundraising isn't due out until the middle of April, most candidates have already disclosed their largess. Ten months before the first primary votes are cast, initial sums indicate that several candidates could ultimately amass an unprecedented $80 million to $100 million campaign war chest heading into 2008, according to the Associated Press. The News Desk will have more on this later today.
- For the second time since the beginning of the war in Iraq, Army units are being redeployed without spending at least 12 months at home, defense officials told the AP.
- A new study in the Journal of Management Studies finds that nearly 30 percent of office workers have been bullied on the job by a punishing boss or co-worker.
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