by Frank James
A quick guided tour of some of the morning's most important or interesting (or both) Washington-related stories.
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has resigned, having tendered his resignation to President Bush on Friday according to a report in the New York Times.
President Bush is resorting to a familiar strategy in his effort to buy time for his Iraq strategy, a vigorous campaign to win over the hearts and minds of American voters and congressional Republicans.
Fred Thompson, as a staff lawyer to a congressional investigative committee straddled the line between probing Republican targets of investigations and defending them.
The student who killed 32 people at Virginia Tech had an extreme anxiety disorder that had been effectively treated during his high school but which federal privacy and disability laws prevented Fairfax County, Va. school officials from sharing that information with university officials.
Sen. Barack Obama depends on Peter Rouse, a long-time Washington insider, who provides the presidential candidate, still a relative neophyte in the nation's capital, with the wisdom about important Washington ways that comes from experience.
Employers are dropping temporary workers which is often a sign of a weakening economy.
Surveyed economists said the biggest short-term threats to the economy were the fallout from the economy were the fallout from the mortgage crisis and huge debt loads rather than another major terrorism attack.
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'THANK YOU 109TH CONGRESS'
NO CHECKS, NO BALANCES, GREAT SPEECHES, GREAT STATE OF THE UNION SPEECHES, GREAT PARTISAN ATTACKS ON AMERICAN PEOPLE.
GREAT SECRETARY OF STATE WORK. CONDI RICE DESERVES THE PRESIDENTIAL AWARD THAT GEORGE TENET GOT.
GREAT JOB IN SCREWING AMERICAN FOR OVER 1 TRILLION DOLLARS AND NO PROGRESS.
THANK YOU FOR KATRINA AND KARL ROVE AND MICHAEL CHERTOFF'S SO GRACIOUS RESPONSE BOTH ON A FEDERAL LEVEL AND ON A DEPARTMENTAL LEVEL. GREAT JOB.
WERE SO SCREWED ITS PATHETIC! SENATOR BOEHNER, CAN YOU GET YOUR GOP BUDDIES TOGETHER AND HAVE A YARD SALE OR BETTER YET, ONE OF GEORGE BUSH'S EBAY SALES AND RAISE SOME MONIES TO PUT ON THE BOOKS OF ALL THESE GOP PRISONERS THAT HAVE COME ABOUT OF THIS ADMINISTRATION. PRETTY PLEASE.
Posted by: Roger Morris | August 27, 2007 4:42 PM