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President Bush announced the nomination of Florida Congressman Porter Goss to head the
CIA...Yes, a tad "inside baseball" I grant you but a Hardball story nonetheless...When
these types of folks are announced there's usually a cavalcade of vapid bonhomies that
follow but we'll watch for the dog that ain't barking...For example, how about ranking
Dem on the Senate Intel committee Jay Rockefeller? Reuters reports this...
"When Goss' name was first floated for the position, Sen. Jay Rockefeller of West
Virginia, the senior Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said he would not
support someone from Congress in that job and complained Goss would be too partisan."
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=Y5GTUTGI35OXMCRBAEKSFEY?type=topNews&storyID=5924564
Also, where is Senator Pat Roberts (R-KS), the chairman of the committee? I suspect
we'll have statements from both by the time we go to air...
Bush nominates Rep. Goss to lead CIA...Florida Republican is former CIA, Army
intelligence agent (MSNBC) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5658900/
The other questions we ask: What will be the relationship between the new CIA chief
and this newly created position of a National Intelligence Director? Will a CIA
Director Porter Goss resist political pressure from the neocons in this administration?
We'll talk to Senate Intel member Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) and maybe he'll sort this out
for us...
The other thing we've got tonight is our famous "ad watch" segment with Steve McMahon
(Dem Ad Guy...former Dean Guy) & Rick Davis (GOP Ad Guy and a McCain guy)...We'll toss
to a number of recent political ads and get their reax...
Finally we do a straight political potpourri segment with The Hotline's Vaughn Ververs
and Norah who is traveling with the President in Florida, who by the way is
campaigning with McCain in Pensacola (the original Scarborough Country)...We'll tackle
that for sure and play some of the sound if there's any of interest...Kerry's kicking
it in Vegas today so we'll check in on what he's up to as well...
This story just blows me away...Millions of illegal aliens in the United States would
be free from arrest and deportation, have access to tax-deferred savings accounts and
Social Security credits, and get unrestricted travel to and from their home countries
under President Bush's guest-worker program. (The Washington Times)
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20040810-123433-8727r.htm
Aren't we fighting a war on terrorism and more carefully scrutinizing people who wish
to come into this country?
Here's another one...Responding to President Bush's challenge to clarify his position,
Sen. John F. Kerry said Monday that he still would have voted to authorize the war in
Iraq even if he had known then that U.S. and allied forces would not find weapons of
mass destruction. (The Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A52839-2004Aug9?language=printer
And our 8 pm ET buddy Keith Olbermann just posted on Hardblogger
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5445086/
Briefing Subscriber Jerry McGlothin makes some news in the Sun Times & Washington Post
A Naperville man has found an interesting way to donate to Republican candidate Alan
Keyes -- he's selling a napkin he claims was drenched with the candidate's sweat.
(Chicago Sun Times) http://www.suntimes.com/output/elect/cst-nws-sbox10.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52992-2004Aug9.html
Dominic Bellone wrote, compiled and edited The Hardball Briefing from Washington, DC
Fresh fighting erupts in Najaf...U.S. taking control of two restive provinces: U.S.
troops and insurgents clashed Tuesday in a sprawling cemetery in the holy city of
Najaf, as American forces drove through the city's streets calling on militants to
give up their arms. (AP) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5455104/
One of President Bush's former political foes plans to campaign with him in
GOP-friendly precincts of Florida...Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., Bush's rival for the
2000 Republican presidential nomination, is tagging along Tuesday as the president
campaigns in the Florida Panhandle where voters historically have elected Republicans
or moderate Democrats. (AP) http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040810/D84C7B1G0.html
Bush's 'talk show' always has appreciative audience...When President Bush picks up a
microphone, bounds onto a stage and engages his cheering audience in a rambling
discussion of topics from Iraq to the economy, it comes off as relaxed, informal and
largely spontaneous. (USA Today)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nation/2004-08-09-ask-bush_x.htm
A startling new book charges that John Kerry accidentally "wounded himself in the
buttocks" in Vietnam with a grenade he exploded, then lied to get a medal by saying he
had received the injury rescuing one of his crewmen. (NY Post)
http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/28856.htm
John Kerry's claim that he was ordered to conduct an illegal combat mission in
Cambodia on Christmas Day in 1968 is made up, Navy vets charge in a new book. (NY
Post) http://nypost.com/news/nationalnews/28840.htm
When the Justice Department obtained two videos suggesting terrorists had cased Las
Vegas casinos, the discussions didn't center on public alerts or heightened security.
Rather, authorities worried about the effects on tourism and the casinos' legal
liabilities, internal memos show. (AP)
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040810/D84CBVTG0.html
Immigration and homosexual "marriage" are shaping up to be the most contentious issues
facing Republican platform writers in the weeks before the party's national
convention, convention officials said. (The Washington Times)
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20040810-123435-4390r.htm
Voters were set on Tuesday to select the Democratic and Republican nominees for the
U.S. Senate seat from Colorado, a state that could be crucial in deciding which party
controls the legislative chamber. (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=5918024
Republican Alan Keyes ripped into Democratic rival Barack Obama's views on abortion
Monday, calling them "the slaveholder's position," as the U.S. Senate race roared back
to life in Illinois. (Chicago Sun Times)
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/keyes09.html
Rick James' cause of death uncertain...An autopsy Saturday failed to determine the
cause of death for funk legend Rick James, authorities said. James, 56, who died in
his sleep Friday at his home, was a diabetic and also had a pacemaker.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5641034/
Opinion/Editorial
Jim Rassman: Shame on the Swift Boat Veterans for Bush...John Kerry saved my life. Now
his heroism is being questioned
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110005460
Limbaugh: 'Unfit For Command' - - Unfit For Discussion?
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/davidlimbaugh/dl20040810.shtml
Kaplan: Dick Nixed It...Is this why Bush's intelligence-czar plan is so half-hearted?
http://slate.msn.com/default.aspx?id=2104867
Katrina: George 'Hoover' Bush...Bush's economic record should be an easy target for
John Kerry. http://www.thenation.com/edcut/index.mhtml?bid=7
Greeley: Catholics can vote for Kerry...John Kerry's stance on abortion - he opposes
it personally but would do nothing to roll back the Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court
decision that legalized it - has brought him under attack from some American bishops.
http://nydailynews.com/front/story/220726p-189544c.html
Landfield: Generally Speaking, Friends and Foes...Want Kerry to be More Specific on
Israel http://www.practicalpolitics.net/landfield/8_6_04.html
Mallard Fillmore http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/mallard.asp
Doonesbury http://www.ucomics.com/doonesbury/
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