Today’s pick from our White House photo blog:
• If the Webb Amendment was “unconstitutional,” what’s this: “Army Chief of Staff George W. Casey Jr… intends to move as quickly as possible to grant soldiers more relief from the war zone, having argued that the troop rotations of 15 months in combat and 12 months at home — required by the buildup of [...]
In all the foolish hype over the Ahmadinejad visit and the Petraeus testimony and all the other set-piece foriegn policy carnival shows of the past month, the dramatic and very positive movement of the Sarkozy government toward a less reflexively anti-American attitude has been pretty much lost. I’m looking for a transcript of Sarkozy’s UN [...]
Of that campaign “house party” that aims to raise at least $9.11 per person, a friend writes: I guess it’s marginally better than asking for $2,974 from each guest…
We’ve discussed before why this is a fight President Bush is likely to regret having won–and why millions of uninsured children are likely to regret it even more. Now, with House passage of the children’s health insurance bill having fallen about two dozen votes short of a veto-proof majority, it appears the bill is indeed [...]
