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From the Miami Herald, here's President Bush--he of the 30 percent approval rating--at a White House ceremony yesterday honoring the University of Florida's national championship football team: READ MORE >>

First sentence of an article in The Politico today: "President Bush this morning telephoned Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, one of the few remaining Texans who came to Washington for Bush's first term, to try to buck up his friend after word leaked that GOP officials operating at the behest of the White House have begun seeking a possible successor." READ MORE >>

Here's Alberto Gonzales fending off calls for his resignation on CBS's "The Early Show" this morning: I didn't become attorney general by quitting. I hate to quibble with Gonzales at a time like this, but didn't he have to quit his job as White House counsel in order to become the A.G.? --Jason Zengerle READ MORE >>

I admit that when I first started reading Josh Marshall's coverage of the fired U.S. attorneys story back in January, I thought he and his TalkingPointsMemo gang were possibly making a mountain out of a molehill. Oops. READ MORE >>

Could be: According to this morning's Times, The White House is turning on him: READ MORE >>

When James Dobson gets angry, people notice. And, in early March, the influential chair of Focus on the Family fired off a very angry letter to the board of the National Association of Evangelicals. Tony Perkins of The Family Research Council signed it. So did Gary Bauer. So did 22 other conservative Christian leaders. Their complaint? It seems that Richard Cizik, NAE's vice-president for governmental affairs, had been sounding the alarm on global warming. READ MORE >>

"The White House staff reflects the president. This is obvious to the point of being a truism." This is a truism? Really? Anyway, that's how Fred Barnes leads off his column in The Weekly Standard this week. It's titled "Cheerleader in Chief". And for those of us who thought Bush was depressed by his low approval ratings and disastrous policies, well, think again: READ MORE >>

Via PoliticalWire, I see that Stephen Hayes's long-awaited valentine to biography of Dick Cheney, titled Cheney, is due out this summer. READ MORE >>

This attorney business just gets worse and worse: READ MORE >>