April 28, 2002

From Washington Whispers:

So much for the united repukelican front against CNN's famously partisan (?? how so?? - the Mgmt) shoutfest, Crossfire. El Dorque administration officials say Hill repugs should stop whining about the show's two Democratic loudmouths, Paul Begala and James Carville, and get into battle. 'We're looking like a bunch of wimps with all this stuff about refusing to go on Crossfire,' says one bush aide. The White House scenario: Put folks on who can conduct mouth-to-mouth warfare, like Carville's wife, Mary Matalin.

The White House is getting increasingly peeved with Senate Republicans who vote against Preznit Poopypants. It's those darn independent-minded New Englanders – Rhode Island's Lincoln Chafee, New Hampshire's Bob Smith, and Maine's Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins – who really draw the ire of the White House and its backers. The latest example: After they helped kill bush's plan to drill for oil and gas in Alaska, Sen. Ted Stevens, Alaska's senior senator and the top Republican on the Appropriations Committee, pledged to ax their pork projects, like the additional Aegis cruiser sought by Maine's Bath Iron Works.

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