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What did she just tell the Demander in Chief? Photo taken last night at Radio and TV Correspondents Dinner.

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This Is What We Call the News

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Keeping It Real

For the "Well, Clinton fired 93 U.S. attorneys and Bush only fired 8" crowd:



FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AG
MONDAY, MARCH 14, 2001 (202) 514-2007
WWW.USDOJ.GOV TDD (202) 514-1888
WHITE HOUSE AND JUSTICE DEPARTMENT BEGIN U.S. ATTORNEY TRANSITION

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Continuing the practice of new administrations, President Bush and the Department of Justice have begun the transition process for most of the 93 United States Attorneys.
Attorney General Ashcroft said, "We are committed to making this an orderly transition to ensure effective, professional law enforcement that reflects the President 's priorities."
In January of this year, nearly all presidential appointees from the previous administration offered their resignations. Two Justice Department exceptions were the United States Attorneys and United States Marshals.
Prior to the beginning of this transition process, nearly one-third of the United States Attorneys had already submitted their resignations. The White House and the Department of Justice have begun to schedule transition dates for most of the remaining United States Attorneys to occur prior to June of this year. President Bush will make announcements regarding his nominations to the Senate of new United States Attorneys as that information becomes available. Pending confirmation of the President's nominees, the Attorney General will make appointments of Interim United States Attorneys for a period of 120 days (28USC546). Upon the expiration of that appointment, the authority rests with the United States District Court (28USC546(d)).

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It's traditional that the incoming President adjusts the U.S. Attorney staff list to suit the incoming President's agenda.

It is not traditional to fire U.S. Attorneys for getting to close to uncovering government corruption.



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Laugh of the Day

I had a bunch of Canadian dollars I needed to exchange, so I went to the currency exchange window at the local bank.

Short line. Just one guy in front of me.

An Asian guy who was trying to exchange yen for dollars and he was a little irritated.

He asked the teller, "Why it change? Yestoday, I hunat dolla for yen. Today I get hunat eighty? Why it change?"

The teller shrugged his shoulders and said,"Fluctuations".

The Asian guy says, "Fluc you white people too!"