Posted on 03/26/2006 5:13:53 PM PST by Wolfstar
PRESIDENTIAL NEWS OF THE DAY: The President and First Lady, accompanied by the Secretary of State, returned from Camp David earlier today. It will be a momentous week in Washington as the Supreme Court hears oral arguments on a military commissions case, and the Senate Judiciary Committee holds a hearing on Sen. Russ Feingold's call to censure the President over the wiretap controversy. In this mix of venality and stupidity, there is some happier news:
Cincinnati, OH (Sports Network) - The Cincinnati Reds announced Friday that President George W. Bush will throw out the first pitch prior to the Reds' opening game against the Chicago Cubs on Monday April 3, at 2:10 p.m. (et) at Great American Ball Park.President Bush's father, George Herbert Walker Bush, threw out the first pitch at the inaugural regular-season game at Great American Ball Park in 2003.
George W. Bush will be the first sitting president ever to throw out an opening day first pitch in the city of Cincinnati and just the second sitting president to attend a baseball game in the Queen City, William Howard Taft being the other in 1912.
The Washington Post story about the military tribunals Supreme Court case:
Court Case Challenges Power of President (click title link to read complete story)
Military Tribunals' Legitimacy at Issue
By Charles Lane
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, March 26, 2006Seized by U.S. forces in Afghanistan and imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Osama bin Laden's former chauffeur is now seeking victory over President Bush in a new arena: the Supreme Court.
In oral arguments Tuesday, an attorney for Salim Ahmed Hamdan will ask the justices to declare unconstitutional the U.S. military commission that plans to try him for conspiring with his former boss to carry out terrorist attacks.
This story is great! Vice President Cheney took on the Democrats for their attacks on the President over the wiretap matter.
Cheney on attack after Dems call Bush 'dangerously incompetent' (click title link to read complete story)
Saturday, March 25, 2006 6:46 PM CSTORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Vice President Dick Cheney blasted Democrats for opposing provisions of the Patriot Act and criticizing President Bush's approval of secret wiretaps for domestic surveillance at a fundraising lunch Friday.
Two days after Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid called Bush “dangerously incompetent,” Cheney said if Democrats were capable of handling the war on terror, “Then I ought to be singing on American Idol.”
“The president and I welcome the debate, because every voter in America needs to know how the leaders of the Democratic party view the war on terror,” he said at the event for U.S. Rep. Ric Keller, R-Orlando.
THE WEEK AHEAD: Not much news available today about next week's presidential schedule. I was only able to find this: President Bush will welcome President Olusegun Obasanjo of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to the White House March 29.
wonderful pix.. thank you for tonights Dose wolfstar! Hope all had a great weekend
Good evening, Wolfstar, and thanks for the pictures!
goona= gonna obv...I hope!
In this March 18, 2005, file photo, former first lady Barbara Bush speaks during a forum on Social Security reform in Pensacola, Fla.
You're first, Echo.
Maj, I relinquish the toaster to you, you can pick the picture. :)
Hi to each of you. Hope you've had a nice Sunday, the first Sunday this spring.
Hi!
Those don't look like dress shoes. Some kind of a walker or sports type shoe.
Hi Dolly, you're welcome. :)
Snicker...
He frequently wears that type of shoe on weekends.
Thanks for the dose Wolfie, time zones even more mixed up we put our clocks forward this weekend so this week I am a further hour ahead.
That is a lovely photo of Condi
Feingold said he believed "a large troop presence has a tendency to fuel the insurgency because they can make the incorrect and unfair claim that the U.S. is here to occupy the country."
"I think that it's very possible that the sectarian differences are inflamed by the fact that U.S. troops are here," he continued, adding that their long-term presence "may well be destabilizing, not stabilizing."
Even his Democrat cohort Rep. Udall (D-NM) commented that Feingold had broken tradition by making these comments in a war zone. McVain declined to get into a public argument with "one of my best friends". Just gag me.
FEINGOLD is the one who should be censored. Somehow, knowing the lily-livered Republicans I'm not holding my breath. sheesh!!!
/rant
"Maj, I relinquish the toaster to you, you can pick the picture. :)" Oh that is so nice! Echo Talon... But I just got one yesterday so I was really just joking about not getting 2 in a row...You go ahead...Choose...But oh I do thank you!
Hi snugs. You're welcome. I always worry about you when I can't get the Dose up sooner. It's only about 8:30pm on the East Coast as I type this, but much later at night in the UK.
I loved the VP's crack about American Idol in response to the Dims' latest nasty nonsense.
PHOTO OF THE DAY
THAT is a GREAT photo! And although I like your verbiage, I'd love to know what he is REALLY saying!
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