Blue Radar

As we post each morning, here are the political buzz stories headlining the newspapers and blogs before you head to work today:

• AFGHANISTAN When questioned about progress in Afghanistan yesterday, President Bush called the experience of soldiers in that country "romantic."  He specified, "I must say, I'm a little envious.  If I were slightlyyounger and not employed here, I think it would be a fantasticexperience to be on the front lines of helping this young democracysucceed.  It must be exciting for you ... in some ways romantic, in someways, you know, confronting danger. You're really making history, andthanks."  (That has to be one of the top-ten most ignorant things I've ever heard Bush say.)
• IRAQ A new report, which the Pentagon canceled, verifies that there is no credible link between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda.
• CORRUPTION Christopher Ward, former Treasurer at the National Republican Congressional Committee, diverted almost $1 million into his own accounts, making this the most serious instance of internal fraud in partisan political history.
• MEDIA John Gibson's show "Big Story" on FOX News is being canceled.
• CONGRESS Republicans in the Senate are trying to mock Barack Obama's spending proposals by putting them all onto one bill, amounting to $1.5 trillion in new spending.  Of course, Obama's proposals are supposed to happen over an eight-year span, not all at once.  The Republican maneuver is designed to scare voters on how much Obama is proposing to spend to fund universal health care, restore crumbling infrastructure and lower taxes on poorer senior citizens.
• 2008 ELECTION/PRESIDENTIAL Mitt Romney is set to form a political action committee to help elect Republican candidates.
• 2008 ELECTION/PRESIDENTIAL 13% of all registered voters think Barack Obama is a Muslim.

More posts throughout the day.

Comments

[RJ]

Todd, the article you link to for the Saddam/Al Qaeda story doesn't say it "verifies there is no credible link". Really, it merely states that there is no evidence. See the excerpt:

"Based on the analysis of some 600,000 official Iraqi documents seized by US forces after the invasion and thousands of hours of interrogations of former officials in Saddam's government now in US custody, the government report is the first official acknowledgment from the US military that there is no evidence Saddam had ties to al Qaeda."

Is it your opinion this story verifies there is no credible link, or is there just no evidence?