I get an email from NBC First Read at least once a day. I don't know who writes this stuff (often funny!) but they don't appear to like Kool Aid at all. Always a pretty good insight with a dash of humor.
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First Read: The day in politics by NBC News for NBC News
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"Both arms around the toilet bowl, throwing up green," is how a longtime GOP strategist with strong Bush credentials describes to us how he's feeling these days -- and not because of bird flu.
With the country's health increasingly threatened by weather and disease, President Bush flexes some bully-pulpit muscle with a 10:00 am Cabinet meeting today. But in Washington, the health craze is about Bush himself, and how his already weakened political standing may worsen upon the indictment of one or more top White House aides in the CIA leak probe.
Reuters has reported that special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald "is expected to give final notice to officials facing charges as early as Monday and may convene the grand jury on Tuesday... to deliver a summary of the case and ask for approval of the possible indictments... Fitzgerald could still determine that there was insufficient evidence to bring charges, but the lawyers said that appeared increasingly unlikely." The grand jury will expire on Friday unless Fitzgerald extends it. NBC's Tim Russert noted on NBC's Today Show that an indictment of a sitting White House official, if it happens, would be the first in 130 years.
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