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Hardball airs at 7pm, 11pm & 2 am....That's 4, 8 & 11 pm on the West Coast...
Chris is back from vacation and is hot to trot on the Recall...A new poll out suggests
this is gonna be a horse race folks with Dem Lt. Gov. Bustamante at 25% & Arnold at
22%...Plus, the sniping has already begun on the Dem side with Bustamante accusing
Davis "minions" of sabotaging his campaign...Also, is Arnold a conservative? His top
economic advisor Warren Buffet said on Friday that property taxes in Calfiornia were
too low and Arnold's camp has since been distancing themselves from the comment...And
some Republicans are urging the other two GOPers, McClintock & Simon to bow out of the
race and back Arnold...Plus, the ACLU is going to court today to try and delay the
election...Lots of action all over the Golden State....We'll slice and dice it with a
panel of political pros including David Dreier, Gergen and Fineman....
In the D block we'll do the political blame game over last week's energy blackout....
In the Buzz we've got Norah and Conason on the Recall, energy politics and Joe's new
book: "Big Lies: The Right Wing propaganda machine and how it distorts the
truth"...Wow, sounds like the Left Wing equivalent of a Coulter book...
Dominic Bellone wrote, compiled and edited The Briefing from Washington, DC...
Bustamante Snipes At Guv...Bustamante accuses Gray Davis of sabotaging efforts to keep
state in Democratic hands. (SF Chronicle)
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/08/18/MN258838.DTL
California's high-stakes recall election is producing fresh cracks in party unity,
with the state's second-leading Democrat accusing Gov. Gray Davis of personal
disloyalty and two leading Republicans bickering about which one hates taxes more.
(AP) http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2003-08-18-candidates-recall_x.htm
Poll Places Bustamante In Lead to Succeed Davis...Schwarzenegger Tops the Other Calif.
Hopefuls (The Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A712-2003Aug15.html
Suddenly, the Terminator looks vulnerable....Arnold Schwarzenegger, who just last week
seemed likely to flatten the opposition in the gubernatorial recall election, has come
under fire, and his once formidable lead in the polls has disappeared. (USA Today)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/2003-08-17-schwarzenegger_x.htm
Davis turns on a charm offensive...Calif. governor reintroducing himself to key voters
(The Washington Post) http://msnbc.com/news/953808.asp?0cv=CB10
Mortman's new stuff: Schwarzenegger's fantastic world...On the campaign trail, Arnold
is positively positive http://www.msnbc.com/news/953920.asp
The nation's worst blackout is putting energy - especially upgrading high-voltage
transmission lines - back on Congress' radar. But resolving the problem could be
difficult and expensive. (AP)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&ncid=703&e=2&u=/ap/20030818/ap_on_re_us/power_politics
The Army acknowledged Monday that it had killed a television journalist after soldiers
mistook his camera for a rocket-propelled grenade launcher. Press advocacy groups
called for an investigation. (AP)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&e=3&u=/ap/20030818/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq
Israeli pits U.S. politics against 'road map' plan...Israeli tourism minister Benyamin
Elon has embarked on a "Bible Belt tour" to exploit evangelical Christian enthusiasm
for Israel, to lure Christian tourists back to Israel and to derail President Bush's
"road map" to Middle East peace. (The Washington Times)
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20030818-122328-1683r.htm
Joe Lieberman is on the presidential campaign trail, embracing his inner centrist.
Wherever he goes, he calls himself "an independent-minded Democrat." His rivals, he
says, are big spenders, weak on defense - or both. (USA Today)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/2003-08-17-lieberman-usat_x.htm
'How to be Gay' course draws fire at Michigan...A course called "How to be Gay: Male
Homosexuality and Initiation," scheduled this fall, has reignited a culture war at the
University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. (The Washington Times)
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20030818-122317-3268r.htm
Rep. Bill Janklow says he feels "anguish" over the death of a motorcyclist who
collided with a car he was driving. Authorities said the intersection had a stop sign
only for Janklow and an investigation was continuing. (AP)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2003-08-17-janklow-accident_x.htm
Opinion/Editorial
Vulnerable in the dark?...Could a terrorist cause a blackout on the scale of the one
that hit parts of the United States and Canada? Doubtful, writes Slate's Fred Kaplan.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/953089.asp
Barnicle: Arnold's a nice guy who can't make it worse
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/col/story/109600p-98967c.html
Katrina's editor's cut: A Form of Looting
Nobel Laureate condemns "the worst government the US has ever had."
http://thenation.com/edcut/index.mhtml?bid=7
Pat: "Is it a rebellion?" asked Louis XVI of the count who informed him of the fall of
the Bastille. "No, sire," came the reply. "It is a revolution." That same question may
be asked of the recall election of Gov. Gray Davis
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=34150
Doonesbury http://www.ucomics.com/doonesbury/
Mallard http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/mallard.asp
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