Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) said, “President Bush and the Republicans should lay off Graeme Frost and all the other children who are getting health care.” She added, “I thought I’d seen the depth of political partisanship and mean spiritedness but the Republicans and their right wing allies have really taken the cake this time.”
A poll done for Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) “found that 70 percent of registered voters think President Bush’s $200 billion Iraq war supplemental spending request should be rejected or conditioned on redeployment.”
“The Marine Corps is pressing to remove its forces from Iraq and to send marines instead to Afghanistan, to take over the leading role in combat there, according to senior military and Pentagon officials.”
In a transcript released yesterday, GOP lawyer Jill Simpson divulged more details about her claim that Karl Rove pushed the Justice Department to bring corruption charges against former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman (D). Simpson recalled how Rob Riley, current Gov. Bob Riley’s (R) son, boasted of a plan to “hang Don Siegelman.”
The United Nations urged U.S. authorities to establish mechanisms to hold security contractors accountable “for unjustified killings and to ensure that offenses committed in Iraq ‘by all categories of U.S. contractor employees’ are subject to prosecution.”
The AP reports that the State Department “may phase out or limit the use of private security guards in Iraq, which could mean canceling Blackwater USA’s contract or awarding it to another company in line with an Iraqi government demand.”
Because of “lengthy and repeated war-zone tours,” the Army is facing a “projected shortfall of about 3,000 captains and majors for every year through 2013.” In an “unprecedented bid to forestall” this “critical shortage of officer ranks,” the Army is “offering cash bonuses of up to $35,000 to retain young officers.”
A new study finds that the “amount of moisture in the air near Earth’s surface rose 2.2 percent in less than three decades.” Researchers note that this increase in humidity bears the “man-made fingerprint of global warming.”
And finally: “Staffers at the Senate Press Gallery have been noticing heavy usage on one of their printers in recent weeks and set out to find out why.” Launching a “quiet investigation,” one staffer “discovered a suspicious file in the computer and printed it out.” The file turned out to be “page after page from the Daily Racing Form.” Staffers suspect either “someone from the cleaning crew or a reporter staying late at night.”
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