THE BLONDES WERE AGAINST HIM FROM DAY ONE. ALERT GE. MORE »

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The fan mail is generally funnier than the hate mail. We wish this writer had gone on CNN to give those bitches (presumably a veiled Anderson Cooper reference) what-for.

“I got the recipe from Patrick Kennedy!” “That’s really funny, Scott. Tony’s not around, is he?” [AP] MORE »

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Another choice bit of FEMAil, from page 398.

DHS, heckuva job managing FEMA. Oh, sorry, are heckuva job jokes passe? We forgot due to the crushing depression brought on by remembering all this shit. MORE »

The Center for Public Integrity (something we’re in favor of in an abstract sense, but probably wouldn’t recognize if we saw) got their hands on 900 pages of Michael Brown’s emails during the Katrina disaster. We think a lot of the juicy stuff’s been left out or redacted, but there’s a hell of a lot to sort through, so who knows. Feel free to take a look yourself, and send us anything particularly interesting, but we think the tenor of the thing can be summed up by this one:

(Also fun is the exchange that begins with an email on page 723 with the subject “REDEEM YOURSELF BY SAVING THE ANIMALS IN THE GULF!!” — Brown, a genial sort, responds enthusiastically, leading one to wish someone had emailed him with the suggestion of saving the people there) MORE »

* Tony Snow will be appointed White House press secretary as soon as today; he intends to “function as an advocate for reporters.” Brit Hume: “I think he’s excited by the idea of being on the inside. He believes he will be at the table when decisions are made. For someone of his bent, that’s too good to pass up.” [WP, NYT]
* Bush, “amid growing Republican unrest about the politics of $3-plus gasoline,” offers to investigate price gouging, stop shipments to the reserve, and ease environmental regulations. [WP, NYT, W$J, USAT]
* Bush seeks $2.2B for levee reconstruction and $14B in cost reductions from non-emergency spending. [NYT, W$J]
* Republicans block tax hike on oil company profits. [WP]
* Rumsfeld makes surprise trip to Baghdad; Senate Armed Service Committee may invite testimony from former generals who have called for his resignation. [WP, WP]
* Frist, Reid are optimistic that compromise on immigration can be reached by Memorial Day. [NYT]

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In the words of our tipster: “I’m glad to see they’re getting to the bottom of this.” MORE »

This news wasn’t exactly a surprise to us: MORE »

Yes, we did mention this in passing in this morning’s Daily Briefing. But we’d be falling down on the job if we didn’t say a little more: MORE »