According to AP: President Bush, reacting to the indictment of a high-level White House aide, has ordered a refresher on ethics rules for his staff.
If folks see this in the next couple of minutes, I will be discussing the struggle over the “national political conversation” between the White House and leading Dems on CNN’s “On the Story” with Jacki Schechner in about two minutes. It’s a short clip but pretty good I think.
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, former State Department Chief of Staff, has been cooperating with the media to deepen and broaden his commentary on the breakdown of the national security decision making process in the White House.
The American Enterprise Institute is planning to host Ahmad Chalabi, Iraq’s Deputy Prime Minister, for his first American speech in 2 1/2 years at 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday, November 9.
During a recent major terrorism conference I organized, I hired a well-connected Republican consultant to help me fill out administration participation in the meeting. Considering that we were meeting amidst the Katrina disaster, my consultant did fairly well.
I hope my colleague, Afshin Molavi, is correct about brewing reform and civil society development in Iran. I’ve heard a lot over the years that Iran’s theocratic rulers are very far from the democracy-pining average folks.
Just got a note from the foreign policy team at the News Hour with Jim Lehrer, and the Ray Suarez interview has been pushed back one more day. It will air tomorrow night. I’ll be watching it in Santa Fe, where I am heading now to give a couple of talks.
From this morning’s Washington Post: Top White House aides are privately discussing the future of Karl Rove, with some expressing doubt that President Bush can move beyond the damaging CIA leak case as long as his closest political strategist remains in the administration.
According to a new CBS poll, President Bush now has only a 35% approval rating, and a whopping 57% disapproval rating. Richard Nixon in November 1973, at roughly the same point in the second term where Bush finds himself, had a 27% approval rating.
Tonight, President and Mrs. Bush will be hosting a very upper crust, ritzy dinner for the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall. I am not going, but I am impressed that Mary Cheney is taking her partner, Heather Poe, to the dinner. TWN applauds this.
