Tonight, the evening news ran the following stories:
Dick Cheney goes to Russia and pisses off the Kremlin by accusing them of strong-arming and repression.
The Senate passes an emergency spending bill that is $14 billion over Bush's limit, and faces a veto, while the house (all the same party) sides with the president. The spending bill is necessary to pay for the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, along with hurricane relief.
The Senate has cleared another version of a constitutional ammendment banning flag-burning as midterm elections near and things don't look so good for them.
Outgoing White House press secretary Scott McClellan tells us that Bush couldn't have sung the Spanish Star Spangled Banner during the 2000 campaign because his Spanish isn't good enough.
The president celebrates Cinco de Mayo a day early due to scheduling conflicts.
Donald Rumsfeld gets caught in a lie about what he said about WMD's in 2003 by hecklers at a speech here in Atlanta.
Narrowly approved house ethics bill makes slight changes to lobbyist disclosure procedures.
Representative Patrick Kennedy crashes his car in Capitol Hill sometime before dawn. Questions arise about his sobriety, and whether proper police procedure was followed.
Al Qaeda in Iraq leader Al Zarqawi (still evading capture) is shown in sneakers, bumbling with a machine gun by the US military as part of an effort to make him look bad.
Oil Prices are down, the Dow is up.
Baghdad bombing kills twelve.
I can't believe the news today.
I'm beginning to feel like Richard Pryor in Brewster's Millions. Ready to vote for None of the Above this November.
1 comment:
Oh, great--Patrick Kennedy crashed his car? Yeah, he's from RI, my home state, but thankfully, he isn't my rep....moron....
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