Bush Press Conference at 10:10 AM Eastern
Just a heads up. Bush press conference at 10AM.
CNN is saying the focus is on the Iraq funding legislation.
Interesting that the White House feels it's necessary at this point to try and shape the timetable politics what with all the other uncomfortable questions he's likely to face.
Bush will have to take some damage today on other topics, which tells me that they feel they are not winning their position in the withdrawal debate.
Maybe the White House is afraid of how Congressmen will react after spending a week listening to constituents in their districts? (EPM speculates it's an effort to fill the sound bite void.)
Later: I would guage that the point of this press conference was to put charges out while the Democrats were out of town. (And before Bush goes out of town.)
CNN is saying the focus is on the Iraq funding legislation.
Interesting that the White House feels it's necessary at this point to try and shape the timetable politics what with all the other uncomfortable questions he's likely to face.
Bush will have to take some damage today on other topics, which tells me that they feel they are not winning their position in the withdrawal debate.
Maybe the White House is afraid of how Congressmen will react after spending a week listening to constituents in their districts? (EPM speculates it's an effort to fill the sound bite void.)
Later: I would guage that the point of this press conference was to put charges out while the Democrats were out of town. (And before Bush goes out of town.)
posted by mikevotes at
8:24 AM
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The calculus for the timing may be the fact that Congress is on holiday for the next week (two for the house) so the rebuttal clips from legislators may be harder to get and Bush may therefore own the sound bite news cycle.
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-epm, at 8:52 AM
That's a very good guess. I added it to the post and linked your profile.
Mike
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mikevotes, at 9:12 AM
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