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Jack Carter, journalist son of former president Jimmy Carter, has indicated he will run against Sen. Ensign, (R-NV), in the 2006 election cycle…..Watch President Bush in free fall. You can actually drag him and throw him around if you want. It's great therapy but addictive….For the first time in the NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, President Bush's approval rating "has sunk below 40 percent, while the percentage believing the country is heading in the right direction has dipped below 30 percent. In addition, a sizable plurality prefers a Democratic-controlled Congress, and just 29 percent think Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers is qualified to serve on the nation's highest court." ….Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA) said he would back fellow Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008 -- "even if Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton also pursues a White House bid," the AP reports. ...Arianna Huffington says Al Gore is becoming the favorite -- at least among the Hollywood elite -- to be the "anti-Hillary" presidential candidate in 2008...From the Reality Imitates Art File: Cindy Adams claims President Bush, "spending inordinate time working on handling his multiple problems of Iraq, Supreme Court, Karl Rove, gas prices, sliding polls, economy, has begun rehearsing answers to questions that might come up at a press conference. More importantly, he's even watching reruns of West Wing." ...Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) will take "his first step on the Iowa section of the 2008 presidential campaign trail" in two weeks. However, other potential presidential candidates have already numerous trips to the state (Omaha World Herald)..the New York Times quotes Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) saying SC nominee Harriet Miers was "an accomplished professional" but those accomplishments may not be enough to put her on the court: "We want an elite group of individuals. I'm not so sure I want
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my next-door neighbor, as much as I like him or her, to be on the Supreme Court because they're nice people." ….Recent polls show Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson with a 63% approval rating….Yet another GOP recruitment effort against West Virginia Sen. Robert Byrd has failed as the Sec. of State has declined to run against him. This follows the refusal of any West Virginia congresspersons to enter the race…..When Rosa Parks, the civil rights advocate who refused to take a rear seat on a bus, was lying in state in the Capitol rotunda, she was only the 26th person to have been so honored, including 10 presidents...Robert Novak writes that Sen. Kay Hutchinson (R-TX) is quietly making it known she is available for the VP slot on a 2008 ticket...
A new Strategic Vision (R) poll finds that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) leads Republican Jeanine Pirro, 57% to 34% with 9% undecided….In the two upcoming governor races the Democrats have pulled ahead. In New Jersey Corzine leads Forrester by 10 points and in VA Keane leads Kilgore by 3 pts….
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U.S. Sen. Ben Nelson: Phone: (202) 224-6551 Fax: (202) 228-001240, Suite 5 Dirksen Basement (Temp)
Washington, DC 20510
senator@bennelson.senate.gov
U.S. Sen. Chuck Hagel: Phone: (202) 224-4224 Fax: (202) 224-5213
346 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
chuck_hagel@hagel.senate.gov
Rep. Jeff Fortenberry: Phone: (202) 225-4806, Fax (202) 225-5686 1517 Longworth House Office Bldg. Washington,DC 20515
Rep. Lee Terry:Phone: (202) 225-4155 Fax: (202) 226-5452 1513 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
talk2lee@mail.house.gov
Rep. Tom Osborne:Phone: (202) 225-6435 Fax: (202) 236-1385
507 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
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