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...saying, "We get up about 5:30 a.m. The President gets up and goes in and gets the coffee and brings it back to me in bed. Very nice of him." The President gestured toward the journalists sweating nearby. "Record that, please," he joked. Then, in a surprise highlight to the trip, the President and First Lady, joined by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, tapped and swayed along as two dozen high-pitched singers in the Vienna Boys' Choir, which dates to 1498, performed a medley that included Johann Strauss's "On the Beautiful Blue Danube." At least...
...face it - the comparison just isn't fair. At all. Remember the highlight clips, the posters from the 1980s, when a skinny Michael Jordan soared above the seven-foot stiffs of the day, his knees knocking their noses, for a ferocious, "did that just happen?" dunk? Well, as amazing as he is, anointing Miami Heat superstar guard and NBA Finals MVP Dwyane Wade the rightful heir to His Airness is just silly - just as it was before with such flameouts as Harold Miner, or stars in their own right like Vince Carter and Kobe Bryant...
...military. The skull, Suskind reports, still had a bit of skin attached to its crown when the container finally was opened inside a room at Dulles, and its forehead had an indentation, consistent with a lifetime of pressing one's head against stone or dirt to highlight one's commitment to Allah. "If it turns out to be Zawahiri's head, I hope you'll bring it here," Bush told his briefers - "half in jest," Suskind writes. But DNA testing ultimately revealed the skull wasn't Zawahiri's. It was shipped off to an FBI warehouse on Staten Island...
...side are most House Republicans, who want border security only and don't want to hear about anything that they regard as "amnesty" until later, if ever. Today House Republicans stunned their Senate colleagues by announcing that they intend to hold public hearings around the country this August to highlight what they see as the bad parts of the Senate version of immigration reform. It's a highly unusual road show designed to get the Senate, which passed a plan to Bush's liking earlier this spring, closer to their more hard-line position. But a more subtle game...
...Boehner: No.... We're going to highlight some of those provisions in the Senate bill to make sure people know what the Senate bill really does...