• Administration to propose major shift in nuclear energy strategy; program would import spent fuel for “recycling.” [
WP]
• Expansion of Health Savings Accounts will be tenet of State of the Union address,
Bush says. [
WSJ,
NYT]
• Democrats seek even more documents related to Katrina. Rep.
Gene Taylor (D-Miss.): “What do they have to hide? Why don’t they just come forward and say, ‘This is what we knew, when we knew, and this is how we reacted?’” [
NYT]
• Partisan divide over eavesdropping widens as
Bush visits the
NSA and Sen.
Hillary Clinton calls his justification “strange” and “far-fetched.”
Ken Mehlman: “Not only are the Democrats not learning from costly policy mistakes, they are not learning what happened from the political mistakes of 2002 and 2004.” [
WP,
NYT,
WT]
• Administration rejected 2002 proposal by Sen.
Mike DeWine (R-Ohio) to lower the standards for getting wiretaps of non-citizens approved. [
WP]
• Bush “seems unlikely to reshape the political landscape with his speech”; no major initiatives expected. [
NYT]
• Samuel Alito makes “victory lap” on Capitol Hill;
Bush renominates
Brett Kavanaugh to
U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. [
WP]
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Hey, remember back in the day four million years ago when a gal named Ana Marie Cox edited this humble publication, and she followed, outed, and interviewed a Hill aide who went by the name "Washingtonienne" and who had lots of anal sex and other kinds of sex that she wrote about on her blog called Washingtonienne? Yes, those were more innocent days when something as simple as a young heterosexual woman having sex with a variety of males could set the world on fire. Let's take a trip down memory lane...a trip that ends on the Straight Talk Express!
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