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[madokie]

With a veto fight looming, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Monday that President Bush is in a state of denial over Iraq, "and the new Congress will show him the way" to a change in war policy. Reid, D-Nev., said the Democratic-controlled House and Senate will soon pass a war funding bill that includes "a fair and reasonable timetable" for the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops. In a speech prepared for delivery, he challenged Bush to present an alternative if, as expected, he vetoes the measure. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18269912/

Remarks by senior U.S. commanders and officials and a change in Army deployment plans all suggest the higher level of American troops now building in Iraq is likely to remain for months beyond the summer. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/22/AR2007042200337.html

Bush and Gen. David Petraeus met today...

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Alison Stewart in for Keith.

President Bush gave embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales a strong vote of confidence on Monday despite scant support for him among key Republicans. "This is an honest, honorable man, in whom I have confidence," Bush said. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18272340/

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama said Monday that President Bush has fallen short of his role as leader of the free world, and the 2008 election is a chance to change that. "This president may occupy the White House, but for the last six years the position of leader of the free world has remained open. And it's time to fill that role once more," Obama said. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18273765/

Put celebrity environmental activists in a room with top Bush administration officials and a meeting of the minds could result. At least that is a theoretical possibility.
The more likely outcome is that an argument will break out, as it did at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner on Saturday night between Karl Rove the president's deputy chief of staff, and the singer Sheryl Crow and Laurie David, a major Democratic donor and a producer of the global warming documentary featuring Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth." http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/23/washington/23rove.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

"Sopranos" Uncle Junior, Dominic Chianese, joins us tonight.

[SteppingRazor]

1. "Alison Stewart in for Keith."

D'oh!

[madokie]

2. I almost didn't post when I read that

[panader0]

3. Didn't Lance Armstrong go cycling with the bush?

I'll bet politics was the reason they split up.

[madokie]

4. could be but I think he may be a repuke too though

[xxqqqzme]

5. oh, not alison. That's

a huge corporation - can't they find someone else? No......not couric either.

[Tarheel_Dem]

6. I like the blond lady that used to fill in for keith....

don't know her name. There also used to be a guy (cutie) that filled in as well....Brian something? Naturally, I don't have a thing against Alison, but she's no Keith. I'd like to see Sam Seder fill in when Keith's on vacation.