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The other day on Tim's show, RNC chairman Ed Gillepsie made a rather "Briefonian"
statement...He was referring to how he was going to watch the CA Recall: "I'm like
most other Americans, Tim, as RNC chairman, I'm limited in my role, in fact,
proscribed from doing anything. So I just throw my popcorn in the microwave and watch
it on television like everyone else" http://msnbc.com/news/963025.asp?0dm=C219V
As a loyal Briefing reader you know we've been the first and, as far as I know, the
only news outlet to recommend popping the popcorn, breaking out the TV dinner trays
with your favorite food and checking out the political action on MSNBC...In fact,
certain big news days require it and when appropriate, we make the call at The
Briefing on these types of nights...Tonight is such a night...
Tonight we lead with Senators Ted Kennedy and Rick Santorum on the big Iraq hearing in
Congress today...Wolfowitz and Meyers are up there making the case for the $87 billion
dollar package...They're facing sharp criticism...
Check out this quote from Iowa Senator Tom Harkin: "This may not be Vietnam, but boy,
it sure smells like it"....We dig the olfactory angle of politics at Hardball as you
know...
If you were watching the MSNBC simulcast of Imus in the Morning today (6-9 am et) you
heard Pat Buchanan promo James Woolsey...Pat gets a soldiers' citation for this
one...Woolsey will do the second block to give his take on the situation on Iraq and
the pre-war intel...Check out Walter Pincus' piece in the Post below for the
backgrounder
In the back half we'll go big on the Recall...A new CA Field Poll which is all the
buzz puts support for the measure at 55%...Bustamante leads on the second question
with 30%, Arnold at 25% & McClintock at 13%...Plus, Maria Shriver got shouted down by
the anti-Recall forces at a Wal-Mart when she tried to register voters...We'll show
you the tape...Plus, are women Arnold's political Achilles' Heel? We'll talk to Dem
Strategist Gail Kaufmann,
Luntz and Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown will do the Buzz on CA Recall and Bush...Jerry
also has some advice for Howard Dean on how to keep Kerry in second place...
Oh and get this, Peter Ueberroth is holding a 4 pm et in which we strongly suspect he
may pull out of the race...What's it all mean? You've got questions, we've got
answers...Tonight only on MSNBC...
>From the Hardball mailbag
Some of you liked that obscure word I used yesterday, exegetical in the
Briefing...Here's an example...
"EXEGETICAL? really! I Love it when you use those big words!!"
Briefing Subscriber
-Thank you Briefing subscriber...We try to inform and entertain around here...I figure
you could drop that term at a cocktail party and really impress your friends and
collagues...Here's what it means: It comes from exegesis which is "an explanation or
critical interpretation of a text"...In other words, it's a fancy word for "slicin'
and dicin'"
A number of you criticized my grammatical error in yesterday's shout out to Sam
Feist...Here's an example
"C'mon, Dominic, Shuster and I's????????? Shuster's and my favorite. Did you go to
public school?"
-Big deal, get off my back...Sue me...
Dominic Bellone wrote, compiled and edited The Hardball Briefing from Washington, DC
President Bush's plane, en route to Florida for a political trip, aborted a landing
Tuesday after being waved off by the airport control tower. It landed successfully on
the second attempt. (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=3413904
Army extends reservists' Iraq tours...A new Army deployment policy requires a 1-year
stay in Iraq, nearby nations. Vernon Loeb and Steve Vogel of the Washington Post
report. http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/963676.asp
Pincus: Spy agencies forsaw Iraq resistance...Intelligence concerns proved broadly
accurate (The Washington Post) http://msnbc.com/news/963691.asp?0cv=CA01
Senators maintained Tuesday that President Bush's request for an additional $87
billion, mostly for Iraq, buttresses contentions the administration seriously
miscalculated the cost of going to war there. (AP)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=6&u=/ap/20030909/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_iraq
"The purpose . . . is to hold the president accountable for a failed policy, not to
cut off funding," said an aide to Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), who will try to
bar any of the money from being spent until the administration issues a detailed
report on its long-term plans for Iraq. (The Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45117-2003Sep8.html
New Iraq poll: More people now think the war in Iraq as increased the risk of
terrorism in the United States than think it has reduced that risk, a major shift on
this issue since mid-April, says a new poll released almost two years after the Sept.
11 attacks. (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=519&u=/ap/20030909/ap_on_re_us/attacks_polls&printer=1
Iraqi guerrillas wounded five U.S. soldiers on Tuesday in two attacks west of Baghdad,
the U.S. military said (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=2OWA3DZICZW5OCRBAELCFFA?type=topNews&storyID=3412188
New CA Poll: Support for the recall of Gov. Gray Davis has stalled, while Lt. Gov.
Cruz Bustamante has opened a slim lead over Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger in the
race to replace Davis, according to a new poll. (AP)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=511&ncid=703&e=3&u=/ap/20030909/ap_on_el_gu/davis_recall
View Poll: (Requires Adobe Acrobat)
http://field.com/fieldpollonline/subscribers/RLS2088.pdf
A crowd at a mall in California's capital greeted Arnold Schwarzenegger's wife Maria
Shriver with hostility on Monday as she made her first solo appearance in the
unpredictable gubernatorial campaign. (Reuters)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A45272-2003Sep8?language=printer
Ex-San Jose mayor: It's time to drop duplicitous, incompetent governor
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/opinion/6293917.htm
Fliers to be rated for risk level...New system will scrutinize each passenger, assign
color code (The Washington Post) http://msnbc.com/news/963728.asp?0dm=N24IN
Democrat Howard Dean has drawn new faces to politics, many of them young, middle-class
Web surfers. Few of those faces are of color. (AP)
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/breaking_news/6726186.htm
Howard Dean came under fire yesterday from two rivals for the Democratic nomination
for saying the United States should not "take sides" in the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict. (The Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45122-2003Sep8.html
The Peter Principles: North Carolina's John Edwards, one of the smaller of the nine
Democratic blips on the party's presidential radar screen, has taken another step
toward political irrelevancy by announcing he would not seek re-election to the U.S.
Senate in 2004. http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030908-033348-3604r
Iraqi takes seat at Arab League...Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari took his
country's seat at the Arab League on Tuesday, settling a two-month dispute within the
pan-Arab body over whether to recognize a government set up by the U.S. occupiers.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/951994.asp
No big guns as N. Korea celebrates...North Korea celebrated its 55th anniversary as a
communist state on Tuesday with patriotic songs and a military parade lacking a
display of heavy armaments, easing tensions over its threats to conduct a nuclear test.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/956870.asp
Two former CNN employees have filed lawsuits against the company, alleging "a pattern
and practice of unlawful race, sex and age discrimination." (Atlanta Journal
Constitution)
http://www.ajc.com/business/content/business/cnn/0903/05lawsuit.html?urac=n&urvf=10627787258620.7947352298186747
GOP seeks 3 Senate seats Democrats will leave in '04...Senate Republicans are looking
to snatch three Southern seats from Democrats in next year's election now that Sen.
John Edwards of North Carolina has bowed out of running for re-election. (The
Washington Times) http://washingtontimes.com/national/20030908-105454-4730r.htm
Democrats court union with anti-Bush themes...The Democrats seeking the presidency
tried to win approval of the nation's largest and fastest-growing union yesterday by
portraying President Bush as the worst option for union members and for the nation as
a whole. (The Washington Times)
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20030908-105451-8449r.htm
Leave it to Milbank: When President Bush last week decided to reverse course and seek
a U.N. resolution giving the international body a greater role in Iraq, officials from
the White House, the State Department and the Pentagon marched forth with one familiar
message: nothing new here.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45475-2003Sep8.html
Doctors saw some evidence of brain damage in Indiana Gov. Frank O'Bannon, a hospital
spokeswoman said Tuesday, a day after O'Bannon suffered a massive stroke. (AP)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=3&u=/ap/20030909/ap_on_re_us/indiana_governor
Sen. Zell Miller soon may have a detailed comeback for fellow Democrats who have
questioned why he frequently votes with Senate Republicans.(Atlanta Journal
Constitution)
http://www.ajc.com/friday/content/epaper/editions/friday/news_f385d26d513cc0e2003e.html?urac=n&urvf=10631248758770.017779712142231285
Opinion/Editorial
How not to remember Sept. 11...We don't need flag-waving and victim tributes to
commemorate the second anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. The time to commemorate the
fallen is after the war is over, and this war has barely begun. By Christopher
Hitchens.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/963359.asp
Landfield: Is California-Style Election Recall Really a Good Idea?
http://www.practicalpolitics.net/landfield/9_9_03.html
Cirignano: California-Style Election Recall is a Good Idea.for New Jersey
http://www.practicalpolitics.net/cirignano/9_9_03.html
Doonesbury http://www.ucomics.com/doonesbury/
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