November 29, 2006

Hotline After Dark: Almost There, WH Press Corps...

Lots of talk on Iraq last night, especially about Pres. Bush's NATO speech and his appearance at the Ammon summit:

CNN's Malveaux: "Despite the deteriorating conditions on the ground in Iraq, President Bush refused to call the growing chaos and carnage between warring factions there civil war" ("AC 360," 11/28).

FNC's Baier: "Bush addressed the immense pressure at home and abroad to change course in Iraq. On the eve of a trip
to Jordan ... the president once again drew a line in the sand" ("Special Report," 11/28).

DOWN BUT NOT OUT

There was also talk of Rep. Alcee Hastings not getting the Intel Cmte chairmanship:

FNC's Garrett: "The Congressional Black Caucus, which strongly supported Hastings, raised no objections. This is in keeping with private assurances that Pelosi had received from the caucus that it would give her wide latitude in dealing with this matter" ("Special Report," 11/28).

CNN's Koppel: "Now perhaps surprisingly, the congressional Black Caucus of which Hastings is a member, which has been among his biggest supporters and wrote a letter to Pelosi on his behalf did not criticize Pelosi's decision. Instead, its chairman said that basically Hastings would have made an outstanding intelligence chairman and we still hope he will at some point in the future" ("Situation Room," 11/28).

Hill's Stoddard: "There must be some other plan that Nancy Pelosi has concocted with the Black Caucus about some other position for Alcee Hastings. He had the seniority in this position. Harman jumped over him and her time
was up" ("Tucker," MSNBC, 11/28).

WE LOVE '08

And here's a sampling of some last night's WH '08 talk:

GOP strategist Mike Murphy, on who he'd rather run against: "I probably would rather run against Hillary, because she is old news and Barack is new news" ("Tucker," MSNBC, 11/28).

Ex-Pres. Carter, on Gore: "I encouraged him so much in 2004 to run that he finally said, 'Mr. President, please do not bother me about this any more. My family and I have decided I'm not going to run.' He almost got angry with me. But I don't have that much doubt, first of all, that Al Gore was elected president by votes in Florida and throughout the nation in the year 2000. And I think, had he run in the year 2004 he would have won. And if I had to choose now a candidate out of all the ones that exist, at this point, at least, Al Gore would still be my preference" ("Hardball," MSNBC, 11/28).

MSNBC's Olbermann, on Gingrich's NH speech: "If you're going to destroy freedom of speech, bub, you've already lost all the cities" ("Countdown," 11/28).

Newsweek's Alter: "Gingrich is a man of ideas. Some of the ideas are dopey and dangerous. Maybe many of the ideas are dopey and dangerous. A few of them are good. He likes to talk ideas. And I don't think that he was playing the angles here of a presidential run" ("Countdown," MSNBC, 11/28).

Washington Post's Dionne, on Biden's Iraq plan: "Senator Biden's plan is smart and thoughtful and it probably wouldn't work right now" ("Countdown," MSNBC, 11/28). [EMILY GOODIN]

Posted at 08:33 AM

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