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The main message is the Sunday Shows.  Message 1 will be the Saturday Shows and message 2 will be the show guest links post.  Then I'll post the ping list.ABC This Week (George Stephanopoulos) Meme: It's the oil companies faultOK, if it's not the oil companies, then it's the incompetent Bush administration foreign policiesGeorge Clooney is a serious and important voice on the international stage (can you say "presidential material?") Topics: Oil, Iraq and foreign policy Turmoil overseas is pinching American pocketbooks at the gas pumps. On Sunday, I'll speak with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to ask how the...

Over the Weekend President George W Bush concluded a 3 day visit to various Command Centres relating to Hurricane Katrina and Rita returning to the White House Sunday afternoon. Vice President Dick Cheney was admitted to the hospital for the elective surgery on his knees. It was announced after doing both knees (originally only one was to be done but surgery went so smoothly it was decided to do the other) that he might be in hopital for up to 48 hours, in fact he was only in for 27 hours and walked without any assistance to his limo early...

WASHINGTON -- Samuel W. Bodman, the new energy secretary, is launching an initiative to improve America's technological competitiveness, beginning with a campaign to sell U.S. nuclear power and clean-coal technologies abroad so other countries can diversify their energy resources. Mr. Bodman said in an interview that he will promote U.S. technology during talks with energy ministers at this week's meeting of members of the International Energy Agency in Paris... The International Energy Agency, whose members meet every two years, was formed in 1974 by industrial nations to deal with the effects of the Arab oil embargo. This year, energy ministers...

WASHINGTON - President Bush (news - web sites) picked a new energy secretary Friday and dubbed him "a problem solver" — a talent Samuel W. Bodman will need as he deals with high oil prices, nuclear waste and a Congress unwilling to pass the president's long-term energy plan. AP Photo Related Quotes CBTDJIANASDAQS&P 500 36.5210543.222128.071188.00 -0.15-9.60-0.94-1.24 delayed 20 mins - disclaimerData provided by Reuters   The announcement filled one of the last two vacancies in Bush's second-term Cabinet, leaving only the secretary of health and human services. Bush is replacing nine of his 15 Cabinet members. The selection of Bodman came...

Bush Picks Bodman for Energy Secretary 17 minutes ago White House - AP By TERENCE HUNT, AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON - President Bush (news - web sites) on Friday named Treasury deputy secretary Samuel Bodman as energy secretary, filling one of the last openings in his second-term Cabinet. Bodman "has shown himself to be a problem solver who knows how to set goals and he knows how to reach them," Bush said at an announcement ceremony in the Roosevelt Room. If confirmed by the Senate, Bodman's major challenge will be to get Congress to enact energy legislation, including one...