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Monday, March 19, 2007
White House Hand-Off
That’s Chris Leak, quarterback of your national champion Florida Gators football team, handing off the autographed ball to President Bush at today’s South Lawn ceremony honoring the champs.
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Team Mitt
Forty percent of the Mormons in the U.S. Senate now are backing ex- ex-Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s bid to become the nation’s first Mormon president.
Sen. Orrin Hatch signed on with Romney today, saying he is impressed by Romney’s record as governor and his efforts on behalf of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. In 2000, Hatch unsuccessfully tried to become the country’s first Mormon president. His candidacy for the GOP nomination went nowhere fast.
Bob Bennett, Utah’s other GOP senator (and also a Mormon), previously announced his support for Romney. Other senators backing Romney are Larry Craig of Idaho and Jim DeMint of South Carolina.
The other Mormons in the Senate are Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada; Gordon Smith, R-Oregon; and Mike Crapo, R-Idaho.
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Zip It
Frustration boiling over at the White House? You be the judge from this testy exchange at this morning’s briefing from spokesman Tony Snow, who complained about what he called the opposition’s “recipe for failure” in Iraq.
CNN’s Ed Henry asked Snow to define the recipe for success. “I’m not brilliant enough” to offer a “one-line answer,” Snow said before turning the question to Henry.
“How would you define the recipe for success?” he asked Henry, who didn’t appreciate having the question turned on him and would not let Snow go on.
“Zip it,” Snow said, drawing Henry’s opinion that the line was inappropriate.
“You’re right,” Snow said. “It’s not appropriate. I apologize. Please continue to interrupt as I try to answer.”
Snow went on to say he merely lobbed the question back to Henry as a rhetorical device “to stimulate a little thought on the complexity of this thing.”
The two were seen chatting - apparently amicably - after the briefing.
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