"Josh Bolten has put together a five-point recovery plan to help push President Bush up in the opinion polls. How about a five-point plan to get out of Iraq, wouldn't that push up the opinion polls?" --Jay Leno
 

Iraqi officials said they, too, were surprised by the unannounced arrival of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and some said they feared it could disrupt negotiations to form a new government, and erode its legitimacy.

"We didn't invite them," said Kamal Saadi, a Shiite legislator close to the newly named prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki.

New Orleans - The Struggle Continues

A New Orleans Black activist who prefers anonymity put it this way: “People say that you’re an Uncle Tom if you support Mitch [Landrieu] for mayor. Another brother answers, ‘but you’ve already got an Uncle Tom in office.’”

By the logic of the anecdote, one-quarter of New Orleans Blacks could be viewed as having Tomish tendencies, while two-thirds want four more years of Uncle Tomism at city hall.
 

Facing a stiff reelection challenge, Sen. Rick Santorum (R., Pa.) reached out yesterday to a vital constituency: female voters.

Santorum was host to a "Professional Women's Conference on the Hill" and invited 3,000 community leaders, university officials, and other women from Pennsylvania. About 90 women attended.

 

"Republicans in Congress are demanding that President Bush investigate whether oil companies are now gouging consumers on these gas prices. That's a good idea, Republicans asking Republicans to investigate other Republicans. And you know who they're going to blame? The Democrats." --Jay Leno

1. Two young men charged with sodomizing 18 boys at a youth camp last year have been offered a plea agreement that may net them little jail time and no record of sexual assault.
   Clifton Bennett, 18, the son of Arizona Senate President Ken Bennett [Republican] , and his co-defendant, Kyle Wheeler, 19, were charged in January

2. A congresswoman's son and three Democratic campaign workers were sentenced Wednesday to four to six months in jail for slashing tires outside a Bush-Cheney campaign office on Election Day 2004.
   
   The men pleaded no contest in January to misdemeanor property damage. A fifth worker was found not guilty.

"In a speech this week, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said America needs to work together to conserve oil. Then Arnold lit a cigar and drove over the crowd in his hummer." --Conan O'Brien

"The big rumor in Washington is that President Bush is about to hire Tony Snow of Fox News to be his new press secretary. His job will be to defend everything the president does, so it's basically a lateral move." --Jay Leno

Actually some good news... Britney Spears' baby took his first steps today. The bad news is, he walked to the liquor store and bought cigarettes. -- Jay Leno

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Egyptian Peace Boat: A boat motors near the Red Sea resort of Dahab, Egypt, yesterday, condemning Monday's terrorist attacks. (Photo by Anja Niedringhaus)

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