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...sitcom director couldn’t have cast a better set of characters: There was Bush, the prodigal-son-turned-born-again with a characteristic smirk and a penchant for butchering the English language; Cheney, with all the charm of a superhero villain and the mannerisms to match; and the entire gang—from Rumsfeld to Ashcroft, Rove to Gonzalez—each with his own set of laughable, unlovable idiosyncrasies...
...Republican bloodbath has begun. Say goodbye to Colin Powell, who turned away from the party the Bush family helped build. Columnist Kathleen Parker has been drowning in hate mail since calling for Sarah Palin's head. Chris Buckley, the son of the late William F. Buckley Jr., went AWOL and lost his position at the National Review. Before the party can reclaim its soul, the unbelievers within must be cast...
...apart, when John Weaver left and Terry [Nelson] left. Emotions were raw. He was obviously not happy with the way things had gone. He went up to New Hampshire to keep it moving, to give a speech. It was the famous flight where he and Jimmy [McCain, his youngest son] and I were on Southwest Airlines, carrying our own bags. Some cable [channel] got it. Jimmy was three weeks out from shipping out overseas. We get through the speech, and you have pretty much the senior class of the Washington press corps all lined up. You know they all came...
...Whatever his preference, he'll have to get out of the Madrid airport first. On Monday, the fourth son of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden took advantage of a layover on his Cairo-to-Casablanca flight to seek political asylum in Spain. But on Wednesday, Spain's Interior Ministry confirmed it had rejected his request. A ministry official said the government determined that bin Laden did not "meet the conditions necessary for entering Spain." (The ministry official spoke on condition of anonymity in line with government policy.) He has 24 hours to make an initial appeal and remains...
...favor. "Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden himself have signaled that Spain continues to be a target," says Jesus Nuñez, co-director and security expert at Madrid's Institute for Conflict and Humanitarian Action Studies. "That would suggest that Spain isn't going to receive his [son's] petition with...