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Hardball airs at 7, 11 & 2 am eastern...4, 8 & 11 pacific...Chris is out in San
Francisco this week, btw
Tonight we'll bring you some more slicin' and dicin' from last night's presidential
speech...Senator Trent Lott, Wesley Clark and others will analyze and otherwise
provide a fast paced and quite exciting exegetical...
In the D block we'll talk to terrorism experts Larry Johnson and Steve Emerson on the
eve of the 9/11 anniversary and ask the question: Are we safer now two years and two
wars later?
In the Buzz we'll turn to California politics and chat with fmr. Clinton CoS/House
Budget Chairman Leon Panetta who was recently appointed by Gray Davis to head a
commission to look into the Golden State's budget woes...We'll ask him about his new
role...Plus, Arnold and Gray got into a little spat over the weekend when Gray said
"You shouldn't be governor unless you can pronounce the name of the state" (ouch!) at
a picnic over the weekend and Arnold shot back...We'll roll the tape tonight and bring
on an Arnold spokesman to respond...
On personal note I gotta give a shoutout to one of Shuster and I's favorite top TV
execs in town over at the competition...Sam Feist has just been promoted to senior
executive producer, political programming at (expletive deleted)...He used to run
their show they call "Bullseye" or something like that! :-) Congrats Sam!
Dominic Bellone wrote, compiled and edited The Hardball Briefing from Washington, DC
Nearing the second anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, seven in 10
Americans continue to believe that Iraq's Saddam Hussein had a role in the attacks,
even though the Bush administration and congressional investigators say they have no
evidence of this. (The Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32862-2003Sep5.html
In the second year of living with the memory, the simmering disquiet persists, a
lengthening shadow that won't leave. (The New York Times)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=68&ncid=68&e=1&u=/nyt/20030908/ts_nyt/911stillstrainsnewyorkspsychepollfinds
Bush calls for 'what is necessary' in Iraq...In a speech that wed policy with emotion,
President Bush argued Sunday that the United States must stay the course in postwar
Iraq despite its cost in lives and money. Bush said he plans to ask Congress for $87
billion.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/951994.asp
Balz Analysis: A Blunt Bow to Postwar Realities...After a string of setbacks,
President Bush had to confront the obvious Sunday night, that the postwar conflict in
Iraq is not going well and that it will take considerably more time, money and
sacrifice for the United States to prevail than he had told the country when he
launched an invasion last April. http://www.msnbc.com/news/963216.asp
Bush master of events or at their mercy?...With President Bush defending his Iraq
policy Sunday night, the 2004 election -- little more than a year away -- is shaping
up as a referendum on America's uncomfortable role as custodian of Iraq.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/962731.asp
The monthly bill for the U.S. military missions in Iraq and Afghanistan now rivals
Pentagon spending during the Vietnam War, Defense Department figures show. (USA Today)
http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20030908/5477621s.htm
Bush Numbers Hit New Low; Dean Tops List of Democratic Presidential Contenders, New
Zogby America Poll Reveals http://zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=732
WashPost: Secrecy masks Patriot Act's conduct...The Bush administration's war on
terror has produced a secondary battle: struggles in Congress, the courts and
communities over how the war should be carried out. At the heart of this debate is the
USA Patriot Act.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/963214.asp
The US-appointed Iraqi interim government said late last month in a little-noticed
statement that it would buy electricity from Syria and Iran, a deal that would
probably enrich with US funds two countries that top the White House list of states
that support terrorism. (The Boston Globe)
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2003/09/08/iraq_proposes_to_buy_electricity_from_iran_syria/
Edwards won't run for Senate seat in 2004...N.C. senator to focus on Democratic
presidential nomination (AP) http://www.msnbc.com/news/963194.asp
While President George W. Bush was making his case to the American people last night,
a high-powered gathering of 150 Democrats was convening at Hil and Bill's house in
Chappaqua. (Newsday)
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/nyc-chap0908,0,7644728.story?coll=ny-nynews-headlines
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is becoming more and more of a PAC-rat, using her
political-action committee's cash to build her own political network rather than to
boost other Democrats. (NY Post) http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/5210.htm
Former Vermont governor Howard Dean holds a strong 12-point lead over Senator John F.
Kerry in the New Hampshire primary race, but Democratic primary voters are evenly
divided over which of the two men would better be able to defeat President Bush,
according to a new Boston Globe and WBZ-TV poll. (The Boston Globe)
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2003/09/07/dean_holds_strong_lead_over_kerry_in_nh_poll/
Howard: There's a Chill in the Air...Howard Dean has had a good summer. But the
Democrats' early front runner may be in for a rough fall. A user's guide to the
pitfalls ahead http://www.msnbc.com/news/962960.asp?0dm=s17Bk
Republican Party officials and political advisers to President Bush admit that they
underestimated Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean and say they now consider
him a formidable potential adversary. (USA TODAY)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nation/2003-09-07-dean-usat_x.htm
The rhetoric of Democratic presidential hopefuls has sunk to a "new low" of "political
hate speech" that will be rejected by voters, the chairman of the Republican Party
said yesterday. (The Washington Times)
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20030908-121532-8118r.htm
An angry Arnold Schwarzenegger demanded yesterday that Gov. Gray Davis apologize for
saying the bodybuilder-turned-actor shouldn't become governor because he can't
pronounce "California." (NY Post) http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/5233.htm
Davis says he was 'just joking' about Schwarzenegger's pronunciation (Sacramento Bee)
http://www.sacbee.com/content/politics/recall/story/7377001p-8320611c.html
The financial godfather of the California recall election says there's no way that
actor-turned-candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger can replace Gov. Gray Davis unless some
Republicans in the race drop out. (USA Today)
http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20030908/5477712s.htm
Warren Zevon, the iconoclastic singer-songwriter whose music often combined dark,
mordant, absurdist wit with some of the more memorable melodies of the modern rock
era, died Sunday in his Los Angeles-area home, his manager said Monday. (MSNBC)
http://www.msnbc.com/news/827421.asp
Opinion/Editorial
The public-private debate...With all the new rules and regulations passed by Congress
and the SEC in the past few years, is it worth it anymore for a private company to go
public? By Dan Gross.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/961937.asp
Pat: We cannot do it by ourselves in Iraq. We need help. That is the message sent in
the clear to the Mideast and the world by our going back to the United Nations to ask
for troops and aid in Iraq. http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=34467
Fund's Diary: Indian Givers...Things are bad in California. Some legislators want to
make them worse. http://www.opinionjournal.com/diary/?id=110003982
Bremer: Iraq's Path to Sovereignty
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39805-2003Sep7.html
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