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“What a Life”

Sound familiar?

Touching down in Escondido, California, Mr Bush assured victims of the infernos: “We’re not going to forget you in Washington DC.

“We want the people to know there’s a better day ahead. Your life may look dismal today, but tomorrow life’s going to be better. And to the extent that the federal government can help you we will do so.”

California burns, Cheney sleeps

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Iraq burns, Cheney sleeps. May 12, 2006 meeting with Bush regarding the situation in Iraq.

Chinese leader Hu Jintao comes to town, Cheney sleeps.

Lawdy, lawdy! Just how many bathrooms across the US has Larry done the toe-tap shuffle?

Before arrest, Craig hired lawyer to fight newspaper

Sen. Larry Craig hired a lawyer in a possible suit against The Idaho Statesman newspaper, a spokesman says.

WASHINGTON (AP) – Months before his arrest at a Minnesota airport, Sen. Larry Craig was considering a lawsuit against an Idaho newspaper and hired an attorney he later retained to represent him in the sex sting case.

Craig, who pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct following his arrest in a June 11 police sting at an airport men’s room, hired Washington lawyer Billy Martin and public relations executive Judy Smith in late January or early February, spokesman Dan Whiting said Wednesday.

Craig hired Martin and Smith because he was thinking of suing The Idaho Statesman newspaper for “harassment” over its investigation into Craig’s sexual orientation, Whiting said.

Whiting said the pair stopped working for Craig on June 7 — four days before Craig’s arrest at a bathroom at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. Martin and Smith ended their work June 7 because the dispute with the newspaper had “certainly died down by that point,” Whiting said.

Associated Press

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WAXMAN GETS RICE IN THE HOT SEAT TODAY Live on C-Span III She’s got her dancin shoes on!

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ENVIRONMENTAL GROUP BACKING EDWARDS

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MEET THE “WHACK IRAN” LOBBY