Thursday, September 1st: The Round-Up

From dailykos:
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice went shoe shopping on Fifth Avenue, but not before she played tennis and yukked it up at Spamalot.

The head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Michael D. Brown: "Paula, the federal government did not even know about the Convention Center people until today."
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The Speaker of the House, Dennis Hastert: maybe we should just forget all about rebuilding New Orleans.
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The Pentagon, headed by Donald Rumsfeld, reassured America that, yes, the Country music hoedown with Clint Black on September 11th is still on.

The head of the Republican National Committee, Ken Mehlman, sent out an email stressing that now---for God's sake, people---NOW is the time when we must repeal that which is causing our country to go down the tubes: the estate tax.
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And Vice President Dick Cheney was still on vacation.