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Tuesday's Cartoon
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The Power of Prayer
Tweet Share on Facebook March 26, 2007 Comment (1)All those prayers from the president of St. Vincent College in Latrobe, Pa., have paid off. We hear that President Bush will give the commencement address. About two months ago, we Whispered that the president's former faith-based initiative czar, Jim Towey, was offering up his prayers for the visit.
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C-SPAN's Scully Gets a Fitz
Tweet Share on Facebook March 26, 2007 Comment (1)New from FitzLand: C-SPAN biggie Steve Scully, who's also president of the White House Correspondents' Association, is this year's recipient of the Fitzwater Center for Communications Award. The center, at New Hampshire's Franklin Pierce College, gives the award out to those it feels exemplifies its model of journalism and public service. It's handed out by former Reagan and Bush spokesman Marlin Fitzwater, the boss of the center.
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Friday's Cartoon
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Fred's Fans: He's In It to Win It
Tweet Share on Facebook March 22, 2007 CommentSen. Hillary Rodham Clinton coined the "I'm in it to win it" phrase first, but friends of Law & Order actor and former Sen. Fred Thompson say he's thinking the same thing.
"Very simply put, he is seriously considering a run," says one.
Now you may be saying, "Duh, he already said he was thinking about running."
But in true Washington fashion, his foes have started a whispering campaign that suggests he really doesn't want to devote the needed energy, time, and passion to running. Or that he's really just a stalking horse for another candidate whom he'll endorse at the right time later in the fall. But his allies say that's all junk. "It sounds like a lot of wishful thinking," says one.
Here's the thing–we might not know his plans until late summer. The reason: Some GOP strategists say that the second wave of candidates, including former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, plans to size up the race during the summer, then get in as late as September. But, add the strategists, they will most likely telegraph their intentions weeks in advance.
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Thursday's Cartoon
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Wednesday's Cartoon
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Porky Pig Goes to War
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Corrected: 3/21/07, 11:05 a.m.
Boy, as if the troops don't have enough to lug into battle, now they're carrying Porky Pig. Or so that's the message from the Senate Republican Conference, which designed this portrayal of all the pork being larded on the war supplemental spending bill to persuade enough members to also OK a time limit on the effort.
It's part of a broader GOP effort to paint the Democrats as big spenders and taxers and one that has had some success so far. Besides drawing attention to the war pork with the above illustration, the GOP is drawing up state-by-state fact sheets suggesting massive tax hikes for voters if the Democrats don't extend the Bush tax relief.
You'll start hearing this a lot: "It's the largest tax increase in history!" So far, the Senate Republican Conference has drawn up fact sheets for voters in New York, Arizona, and North Dakota. Spokesman Ryan Loskarn suggests an average $2,052 tax increase for a family of four making $40,000 no matter what state they reside in.
Democrats call it all bunk, of course, claiming that the Bush tax cuts were giveaways to the rich and that adding pork to the controversial war spending bill is the only way to win enough votes to limit the time troops will stay in Iraq.
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Tuesday's Cartoon
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Giddyup, Sundance
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We told you (below) that New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson had lost enough weight to make his horse, Sundance, very happy. And here's the proof from his campaign.
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