dog daze August 20

August 20, 2007—The bare facts are that the nation—heavily indebted –needs to attract some $800 billion a year from abroad, either by borrowing the money or by selling American assets. NYT, WK9

--William Belknap, Ulysses S. Grant’s disgraced secretary of war, is experiencing a revival. Impeached in 1876 for taking bribes, he has become the inspiration for a movement to remove A/G Gonzo from office. NYT WK 9

--…the first mother-in-law is all over Laura for “upstaging my son,” say White House insiders. Barbra even told Laure: “You’re not good enough for my son!” Adding insult to injury, Dubya refuses to stick up for his wife. Instead, he’s taking his mother’s side and telling Laura to “back off.” But in a shocking twist to the Bush family soap opera, Laura, 60, is telling her most trusted confidants that not only does she refuse to disappear, she plans a political career of her own after they leave the White House! “I want to be the next senator from Texas,” she told one close advisor. “Laura is living every wife’s nightmare,” a family friend tells THE EXAMINER. “After almost 30 years of marriage, her husband still let his mother tell him what to do. And Laura I powerless to make him see he’s being pushed around lieka mama’s boy.” NATIONAL EXAMINER, p 24, Aug. 27, 2007