Eight U.S. soldiers were killed in Iraq on Memorial Day yesterday, “making May the deadliest month of the year for U.S. troops in Iraq.”
“Former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist has withdrawn his name from consideration for World Bank president.” Former Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick has emerged as the frontrunner to replace Paul Wolfowitz.
Even though “major Hispanic groups broke with other civil rights organizations and supported Alberto R. Gonzales’s nomination for attorney general” two years ago, those same groups are now calling for his resignation. Janet Murguia, head of the National Council of La Raza, called Gonzales “a follower, not a leader.”
Announcing new economic sanctions against Sudan’s government, President Bush this morning called the bloodshed in Darfur a “genocide.” Last month, Bush’s Sudan ambassador Andrew Natsios resisted that label. The administration’s measures are considered “too weak and too unilateral to significantly alter the calculations of the government of Sudan.”
War critic Cindy Sheehan, who rose to prominence when she camped outside Bush’s Crawford ranch in August 2005 to seek an explanation for her son’s death, wrote in a diary entry on DailyKos yesterday: “This is my resignation letter as the ‘face’ of the American anti-war movement. … I am going to take whatever I have left, and go home. I am going to go home and be a mother to my surviving children, and try to regain some of what I have lost.”
Climate change is a global problem that requires unity and “multilateral” agreements if it is to be defeated, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Tuesday. On Monday, Pelosi led a congressional delegation to Greenland, where lawmakers saw “firsthand evidence that climate change is a reality.” (The Gavel has photos of the trip.)
A USA Today analysis finds that the federal government “recorded a $1.3 trillion loss last year — far more than the official $248 billion deficit — when corporate-style accounting standards are used.” Every U.S. household owes an amount roughly equal to $516,348.
And finally: Summer’s here! CNN’s Ed Henry said he’s excited because he gets to finally “take my children to Disneyland in Anaheim as well as LEGOLAND.” An “anonymous” political editor said that House Minority Leader Rep. John Boehner’s (R-OH) year-long tan will begin to “blend in with everyone else.” An unnamed Republican Senate staffer added that summer “means the heat causes John McCain to become more irritable.”
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