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Fed up with waiting for the Senate to give his UN nominee an up-or-down vote,
President Bush recess-appointed John Bolton to that ambassadorial post...Dems
are none to happy and neither are the folks who booed him on the street outside
the UN as he began his first day on the job...Could there be some Dem blowback
on Roberts?? David Gregory kicks off coverage from the north lawn and then we
turn to Bolton backer Senator Norm Coleman (R-MN)...
Confused by just what the heck a "recess appointment" is? Me too...That's why
we've asked David Shuster to cook up a package detailing what it means and the
history of that particular presidential prerogative...
Andrea checks in with the latest from the CIA leak case and that hot Novak
column (link below) where he takes the CIA to task...Ginsberg and McMahon will
slice and dice the politics of the Roberts nomination and the CIA leak...
And my personal favorite segment of the evening comes courtesy of one of
Grandma's favorite talk radio hosts, KSFO "hot talk" 570 in San Francisco
Melanie Morgan and Optruth.org's Paul Rieckhoff....Melanie, you might recall,
lead a delegation of a half dozen conservative radio talk show hosts earlier
this month to Iraq to combat what she says is the MSM's (bloggerspeak for
"mainstream media") imposing a "Vietnam template" on Iraq and harming our war
effort by reporting negative stories...She believes a concerted effort is
underway...Paul Rieckhoff, founder of http://www.optruth.org (an advocacy group
for Iraq & Afghanistan veterans) and an Iraq veteran himself...He called her
self described "truth tour" "propaganda."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/archive/paul-rieckhoff/radio-truth-tour-ignore_4513.html
Melanie Backgrounders here
http://www.ksfo560.com/viewentry.asp?ID=333244&PT=hosts here
http://www.ksfo560.com/djadditionalinformation.asp?djid=11187 and here
http://www.moveamericaforward.org/index.php/MAF/CurrentProject/the_truth_tour_live_from_baghdad/
Please join us...Dominic Bellone wrote, compiled and edited The Hardball
Briefing from Washington, DC
Bush appoints Bolton to U.N. post...President bypasses Senate, appointment
lasts until Jan. 2007 (MSNBC) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8758621/
Reaction to President Bush's recess appointment of John Bolton as ambassador to
the United Nations (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050801/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bolton_quote_box_3&printer=1;_ylt=Ai8FVwQBnTQicDUhv0HrnNkGw_IE
A Look at Presidential Recess Appointments (AP)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/01/AR2005080100476_pf.html
Roberts sought to shift course of civil rights law...Court nominee was charter
member of conservative legal vanguard (The Washington Post)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8770914/
U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said on Monday he would have "very
serious concerns" about sharing internal documents requested by Senate
Democrats in the debate over John Roberts' nomination to the Supreme Court.
(Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050801/pl_nm/bush_court_dc_3;_ylt=Ak9pbNVtMHyzv0J.yKcVUUpqP0AC;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl
Five U.S. soldiers killed in Baghdad bombings...Gunmen ambush convoy of
Chalabi's political party; one dead, three injured (MSNBC)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8749869/
The withdrawal of U.S.-led troops from Iraq and Afghanistan would do nothing to
end attacks such as the London bombings, U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
said in an article published on Monday. (Reuters)
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L01152496.htm
Drawing Down Iraq...Drastic troop cuts are in the Pentagon's secret plans.
(Newsweek) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8770418/site/newsweek/
Iraq hopes to finish constitution on time...U.S. pressures committee to meet
August 15 deadline (AP) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8768099/
Saudi Arabia's King Fahd has died...Monarch had ruled in name only since
stroke; Abdullah appointed new ruler (AP) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8782793/
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist outpaced other potential 2008 presidential
candidates in the first half of the year, with his political action committee
raising $1.9 million (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050801/ap_on_el_pr/political_fundraising;_ylt=ArXWNS8fRHT84vfKaXO7Zr.s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3OXIzMDMzBHNlYwM3MDM-
Gore's network wants to change TV's focus...Cable venue for young journalists'
short, cheap videos (San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/07/31/MNGQCDVD2C1.DTL&type=printable
Who can resist chunky bacon ice cream?...At the beach, flavors that may be hard
to swallow (The Washington Post) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8761783/
Opinion/Editorial
Pat Is America's war winding up?
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=45545
Novak: Correcting the CIA
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/robertnovak/rn20050801.shtml
Barone: Bush Bashing Fizzles
http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnews/20050727/ts_usnews/bushbashingfizzles
Doonesbury http://www.ucomics.com/doonesbury/
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