Blue Radar

As I post each morning, here are some of the political stories thatmight not be worthy of their own posts, but are nonetheless newsworthy:

• President Bush wants Tony Blair to be his special Mideast Envoy after he steps down as British Prime Minister next week.
• The House of Representatives rejected a proposal that would block the government from inserting new power lines in places where local communities oppose them.
• This is how a map of the United States would look if each state was renamed as a country with a similar GDP.
• Michael Bloomberg gave the commencement speech at City University of New York’s College of Staten Island.  He spoke mostly about work ethic.  "If you’re the first one in in the morning and the last one to leave atnight and you take fewer vacation days and never take a sick day, youwill do better than the people who don’t do that. It is very simple," said the New York City Mayor.
• Lawyer Ed O’Reilly will challenge John Kerry in the Democratic primary for the Massachusetts Senate seat in 2008.
• Should Hillary Clinton have run in 2004?  NBC's Chuck Todd writes that she is the perfect candidate, but running in the wrong year.  "She is, to date, correcting every mistake made by John Kerry (and Al Gore) in 2004 and 2000 respectively," Todd added.
• Here is a State-by-state list of poll results for 3-way general election match-ups that include Michael Bloomberg.  If you are into polls, you will like this stuff.  But if you don't have time, in summary, "According to their analysis, a Bloomberg candidacy 'siphons enough Republican votes to FLIP RED states Iowa, Missouri, Ohio and New Mexico BLUE.'"
• Florida Democrats: Clinton - 37%, Obama - 21%, Edwards - 20%.

If we left anything out, feel free to add any stories in the commentbox.