Sunday Lineup
- Meet the Press: Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE).
- Face the Nation: SoS Condi Rice; Rep. John Murtha (D-PA); Politico's Roger Simon.
- This Week: SoS Condi Rice; Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI); Sen. Sam Brownback (R-KS); actress Natalie Portman; roundtable of ABC's Martha Raddatz, Newsweek's Fareed Zakaria and George Will.
- Fox News Sunday: Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and Cindy McCain; remembering ex-MPAA chief Jack Valenti.
- Late Edition: SoS Condi Rice; Rep. Adam Putnam (R-FL); Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA); Iraqi FM Hoshyar Zebari; European Commiss. Pres. Jose Manuel Barroso; a roundtable of Dana Bash, Joe Johns, and Ed Henry
Hey Sunday talk hosts! Ask Condi about this!
In a troubling sign for the American-financed rebuilding program in Iraq, inspectors for a federal oversight agency have found that in a sampling of eight projects that the United States had declared successes, seven were no longer operating as designed because of plumbing and electrical failures, lack of proper maintenance, apparent looting and expensive equipment that lay idle.
More TV alerts:
- Newsmakers (C-SPAN, 10am): NSC's Dir. of Iraq policy Brett McGurk on 4/29
- Road to the WH (CSPAN, 6:30pm): Rep. Jim Clyburn's (D-SC) annual Fish Fry on 4/29
- 60 Minutes: George Tenet on 4/29; Guns & Mentally ill on 4/29
- Political Capital w/ Al Hunt: discussions on the economy, Paul Wolfowitz's struggle to survive at the World Bank, and U.S.-Russian relations on 4/27
- Chris Matthews Show 4/28-4/29: Jim Cramer, Katty Kay, Clarence Page, Anne Kornblut discuss "Democrats debate, and the President vetoes: Do Democrats now have the upper hand on national security credibility? Dow 13,000: Are we in a new gilded age with the greatest income divide since the Great Depression?" Quotes here
- Today Show: George Tenet on 4/30
- The View: Bill Bradley on 4/30
- LKL: George Tenet on 4/30
- Tavis Smiley: Gwen Ifill on 4/30
- The Daily Show: Christopher Hitchens on 4/30
- The Colbert Report: Bill Bradley on 4/30
May preview
- The Daily Show: Tobey Maguire on 5/1; Pierre Rehov on 5/2; Ted Koppel on 5/3;
- The Colbert Report: Malcolm Gladwell on 5/1; Gina Kolata on 5/2; Conn Iggulden on 5/3; Richard Preston on 5/7; Reza Aslan on 5/8; Nassim Nicholas Taleb on 5/9; Jann Wenner on 5/10;
- Leno: Mitt Romney (R-MA) on 5/2;
- Tavis Smiley: Rep. Tom Lantos (D-CA) on 5/2; David Ignatius on 5/3;
- 20/20: DC Madam Jeane Palfrey on 5/4
If you want a massage, call a spa.
ABC News video: Randall Tobias resignation & the DC prostitution ring. You might want to watch until the end for a tidbit Brian Ross throws in there.
Republican Corruption Video Vault
Channel 3 News Coverage of Rick Renzi (R-AZ) FBI Raid is here. (Donate to ActBlue's AZ-01 fund)
Rep. Don Young's (R-AK) former aide pled guilty to Abramoff related crimes. There's also a fishy earmark that's being looked at. Donate to ActBlue's AK-AL fund here. Young is also into using a phoney Lincoln quote.
An oldie, but a goodie. An ad (with catchy jingle!) for Charlie Brown (D-CA), John Doolittle's 2006 opponent. Brown is running again in 2008. (Donate to ActBlue's CA-04 fund or Charlie Brown's campaign)
DCCC is out with its John Doolittle: Saint or Sinner? ad. Someone had fun bringing back the cast of characters from 2006: DeLay, Cunningham, Ney, and Abramoff.
Another CA Republican, Jerry Lewis, is also under investigation. He's spent about $900,000 on defense lawyers so far. His case is wrapped up in the US Atty scandal as well. Donate to ActBlue's CA-41 fund. For your viewing pleasure, Lewis v. Murtha on appropriations.
J.D. Hayworth no longer represents AZ-05, but he's still under investigation. We don't want him or any of his lot taking back this seat, so donate to Rep. Harry Mitchell (D-AZ). For a reminder of what we worked so hard to kick out of Congress last year, watch this.
Sen. Pete Domenici (R-NM) and Rep. Heather Wilson (R-NM) have found themselves in hot water for their inappropriate calls to fired US Atty David Iglesias. Donate to Act Blue's NM-Sen fund. There's no contribution area up for NM-01 yet. For your viewing pleasure, David Iglesias speaks about the phone calls.
Also, from 2006, an ad re: Heather Wilson's ties to Bush on the war in Iraq:
No videos but worth mentioning:
The White House called Rep. John Boozman (R-Ark.) "and pretty much told him what they are doing with this appointment and how they are going about it," according to a July 6 e-mail from Bud Cummins, then the U.S. attorney in Little Rock. [...]
The message indicates that Bush administration officials told Boozman about their plans to fire Cummins at the same time that Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) and other Democrats say they were being stonewalled.
For Your Enjoyment
The 4/24/07 Boston Legal on 2008 presidential race:
SNL Weekend Update: Really?! Alberto Gonzales Testimony.
Tim Russert spells Iraq, I-R-A-K. Oops. Watch it:
Jon Stewatt & Josh Marshall were on Bill Moyers Journal Friday. Watch it all here!
Haha
Eliot Spitzer meets Sanjaya at WHCD
Eliot Spitzer said he considered the rooster-maned Sanjaya a potential donor - but not of money. "I was trying to get a hair transplant," Spitzer told us.
Jokes!
Bill Maher: "Over in Washington, Alberto Gonzales testified yesterday before Congress. He is the Sanjaya of the Bush administration. He had a month to rehearse and he still sucked."
Leno: "All the candidates were out campaigning on Earth Day Weekend. They had some good ideas. Like John McCain suggested we bomb Iran just using hybrid planes. ... Newt Gingrich said next time he cheats on his wife, he'll do it with the lights off to save energy."
Jimmy Kimmel: "Sanjaya has quite a weekend ahead of him. He's going to the White House Correspondents' dinner on Saturday night, which means there's a really good chance he will meet President Bush. It's crazy to think that a guy who did not get the most votes, who's not good at what he does, is famous despite the fact that he is consistently horrible, would get the chance to go to the White House and meet Sanjaya."
Coming Up This Week in Congress via Hotline Daybook
- 4/30: Senate Interstate Commerce, Trade & Tourism Subcmte hearing on "Halliburton and U.S. Business Ties to Iran." 2pm.
- 5/1: Senate Health, Edu, Labor & Pensions Cmte hearing on "No Child Left Behind Reauthorization: Measuring Progress & Supporting Effective Interventions."
- 5/1: House Judiciary Cmte on Commercial and Administrative Law Subcommittee markup to consider issuing subpoenas for the testimony of former Deputy Attorney General James Comey regarding the firings of U.S. Attorneys; and hearing on the "Second Anniversary of the Enactment of the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005: Are Consumers Really Being Protected Under the Act?"
- 5/2: Sen. Finance Cmte hearing on The Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit: Monitoring Early Experiences."
- 5/2: House Agriculture Cmte hearing on Agriculture Dept's security breach (release of Social Security numbers)
- 5/3: House Agriculture Cmte hearing on food & feed importation safety
- Also this week: FY2008 spending hearings; trade/business issues; global health issues; terrorism prevention issues; CAFE legislation; conservation issues; offshore tax evasion; rural broadband; preventative healthcare; financing college education issues; human rights; Social Security Disability Claims Backlog; Medicare; Medicaid; Arab opinion of US; BP Prudhoe Bay shutdown of 2006; pensions; US-Europe missile defense system; and veterans' benefits.
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Al Rodgers is busy again this week! Hopefully, he'll be back soon!