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Wonkette has a copy of the National Republican Congressional Committee memo to GOP press secretaries about media suggestions for May 2004 — including events to correspond with such holidays as Cinco de Mayo, National Defense Transportation Day, Loyalty Day (!!!), and — oh yeah — Mother’s Day.
(…betcha a dollar that the Democrats have a similar memo floating out there, before anyone gets all in a tizzy. But Cinco de Mayo? Man, that reeks of pandering.)
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I can’t find a link to it on the White House Press Briefing page yet, but Josh Marshall has what appears to be a partial transcript of today’s Mamet-like briefing with Scott McClellan, featuring such gems as the following:
SCOTT MCCLELLAN: Well, I’ll go over everybody that’s in there. You have all 10 commission members, you have one member of the commission staff present. Then you have the President and Vice President; Judge Gonzales is there, and two staff members from the Counsel’s Office are there as well.
QUESTION: Who are the staff members?
SCOTT MCCLELLAN: I’m not going to get into the names of the staff that’s present.
QUESTION: Why?
QUESTION: Why?
QUESTION: Why?
SCOTT MCCLELLAN: Just, Judge Gonzales. They’re lawyers on the White House Counsel staff. I know you all want to call them and talk to them afterwards, but I’ll just say, two members of the White House Counsel staff.
QUESTION: No, that’s not why, we just want their names.
QUESTION: For God’s sake, this is a matter of historical record.
SCOTT MCCLELLAN: It’s a private meeting, Helen.
QUESTION: It’s not a private meeting, it’s a public meeting.
SCOTT MCCLELLAN: I just told you who is present.
QUESTION: It’s doing the nation’s business.
SCOTT MCCLELLAN: These are two members of the Counsel’s Office that have been working closely with the September 11th Commission.
QUESTION: Why the secrecy?
SCOTT MCCLELLAN: I don’t look at it that way.
QUESTION: But we do.
QUESTION: It is a good question. It is an historic moment. This is — in a public event.
SCOTT MCCLELLAN: I’ll talk back with these individuals and see if — but —
QUESTION: Just for the record, really, just for the record.
SCOTT MCCLELLAN: I’ll talk back with these individuals, but I’m not in the habit of just going and naming every staff members that attend all these meetings.
Fans of GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS and Brian Bendis’s comics will have a hard time telling whether the above is from a new script or not, I suspect.
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Via kausfiles, an accidentally accurate summation of what Democrats will be saying later this year.
I agree with Kaus, incidentally — the site’s proprietor seems to be using the title ironically, as if in jest. I’m guessing there won’t be much irony in the statement later this year.
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it’s a disney book
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Supreme Court Denies Stay in Clarett Case
WASHINGTON – Maurice Clarett’s bid to enter the NFL draft this weekend was turned down by the Supreme Court on Thursday, delaying for now his attempt to get into the league.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said she saw no reason to overturn a lower court’s stay preventing the former Ohio State running back from being picked…
Clarett could refile his request with another justice, but the outcome likely would not be different. Most emergency appeals are rejected by the court.
[Gus’s note: Clarett did, in fact, file another emergency appeal, this time to Justice John Paul Stevens. If Ginsburg didn’t lift the stay, though, I seriously doubt Stevens — or any other justice — would do so. Too bad, kid; given that by the time this gets heard and ruled on by the various courts it’ll be next year, probably would’ve been a better idea to save all that money and play another year in college, huh?]
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I do not have the appropriate words to express the sheer wrongness of this, a homemade TRON costume, other than: some folks just shouldn’t be wearing spandex. Ever.
Really. Don’t click unless you’ve properly prepared yourself for Wrongness.
