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Gonzales Is Said to Seem Confident He Will Stay
By DAVID JOHNSTON and SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
The attorney general has told aides he believes he has weathered the storm over the prosecutor dismissals.
Sort of paying half-an-ear to the hearings now (our colleague Massimo is on the Hill watching live), but it doesn’t seem like much of an improvement from last time except that he’s shed his “don’t recall” crutch.
Will check in again soon
Most people have hobbies: golf, model trains, restoring old cars, whatever. A year after Ron Paul announced his Republican presidential bid, I have concluded that his supporters must not do these things. They can’t possibly have the time. While others are at rest or at play, Paul’s supporters are on the Internet, googling his name and diving into the comments sections of news articles to register their opinions.
The much-heralded and long-awaited Obama campaign media attack on Mitt Romney began Monday with a reporter conference call and the release of two videos bemoaning the pain caused after Romney’s former private equity firm, Bain Capital, took over a Missouri steel company called GST Steel. The effort is textbook negative politics, from the sympathetic white working class steel men bemoaning their lost careers to the talk about “values” and the shots of lonely industrial wastelands left by the collective failure of Romney, Bain and GST.
