WTF Is It Now?!?

Correction: the Smirking Cokemonkey made the above comments not at a seniors' center, but at the $2 million fund-raising dinner that followed, where donors dined on lobster, filet mignon and asparagus.




Members of Preznit Poopypants' party are criticizing him for concessions he may offer the Palestinians as part of his long-awaited speech on a Middle East peace plan. House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., said Thursday that he ''will reserve judgment'' on the president's plan until he sees the details.

Meanwhile, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is prepared to accept a Mideast peace plan put forward by President Bill Clinton in December 2000, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported Friday. In an interview at his Ramallah headquarters, Arafat told Haaretz reporter Akiva Eldar that he would take the Clinton plan without changes, Eldar told The Associated Press on Friday. "I am prepared to accept it, absolutely," Eldar quoted Arafat as saying, and he endorsed the points of the plan one by one, Eldar said.