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Senate Republican Whip Trent Lott says President Bush's new strategy in Iraq has until about fall before GOP members will need to see results. Lott's comment Monday put a fine point on what Senate Republican stalwarts have been discussing quietly for weeks. It also echoed remarks made this weekend by House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, indicating the GOP's limited patience on the war. http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/05/08/ap3695872.html

House Democratic leaders planned to brief party members Tuesday on new legislation that would fund the Iraq war through July, then give Congress the option of cutting off money after that if conditions do not improve. If members agree to back the plan as expected, a vote on the new war spending bill could come as early as this week. The proposal, pitched last week by Rep. David Obey, D-Wis., was first disclosed Thursday by The Associated Press. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18549870/

The Web site Politico.com says it had been alerted by a rival campaign, reported before Mr. Giuliani took the stage at the conservatives' gathering that he and his wife, Donna, made personal donations to national, state, and city chapters of Planned Parenthood totaling $900 in 1993, 1994, 1998 and 1999. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/08/us/politics/08giuliani.html?_r=1&ref=politics&oref=slogin

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Europeans stepped up pressure on World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz to resign as they expressed fresh concerns Tuesday about his leadership amid revelations that he broke bank rules in arranging a pay package for his girlfriend. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18553053/

Astronomers have spotted a cataclysmic explosion that marked the death of a huge, distant star in a blast five times as bright and powerful as any they had seen previously. They said yesterday that a similar fate may be imminent for a star in Earth's galactic neighborhood. The size and energy of the newly recorded blast, 240 million light-years away, have already begun to transform scientific understanding of how especially large stars explode, and have left awestruck researchers concerned -- and a little excited -- about what might happen to the similarly enormous and unstable star closer to home. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/07/AR2007050700752.html

The many moods of Paris Hilton shifted again when the jail-bound socialite rehired the publicist she blamed for her 45-day sentence. Hilton has called the sentence unfair, and her fans have posted a petition on the Internet urging Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to pardon her. The petition, which had more than 900 signatures by Tuesday morning, urges the California actor-turned-governor to pardon Hilton because she provides "beauty and excitement to (most of) our otherwise mundane lives." http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18552256/

When autumn comes around there will just be another excuse by BushCo, and the GOPigs will back him for "another 6 months."

I'll bank on that one.

the bush*/cheney* cabal has to be dealt with in a very serious way or we have lost our country, theres just no two ways about it.
I see our generation partly to blame for where we are so the onus is on us to do something about it, we have too.

watching a bank robber. Would we just let him complete his job until he had emptied the safe, or would be throw his butt in jail? I see a strong parallel here.

As for Paris Hilton needing a pardon because she is providing..."beauty and excitement to (most of) our otherwise mundane lives." I will choose mundane any day. I am so sick of the rich and famous...the privileged few....the spoiled brats getting their way, I could scream. I don't care if I ever hear the name, Paris Hilton--or Britney Spears, for that matter--ever again in my lifetime.