The Note: Just Because Your Composure Sort of Slips

— -- WASHINGTON, April 21

NEWS SUMMARY
In the Washington journalism racket, McLaughlin Group-style predictions are OUT; Vegas-style odds-making is IN.

So, in the immortal words of Mr. Mathis, let's check to see what the chances are:

-- of your failing to read what is hands-down the most important political newspaper story of the day: Jonathan Weisman and Dan Balz in the Washington Post on how Washington might be so caught up in Bolton/DeLay/filibusters/Schiavo/etc. that it is missing the big story on the economy: 0%. LINK

-- of The Hill story claiming Sen. Santorum is backing off the constitutional option a bit being accurate: we don't know.

-- of Sen. Chafee saying seemingly contradictory things about his view of the Bolton nomination in the next few weeks: 100%.

At 9:10 am ET, President Bush was talking about Social Security to the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America in Washington, DC.

Per ABC News' Karen Travers, at 9:27 am ET, President Bush commented on camera on John Bolton's nomination to the position of Ambassador to the United Nations.

This is the first time the President has commented publicly on the battle going on in the Senate. He forcefully reiterated what White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan has been saying about the confirmation process.

"Take John Bolton -- a good man, nominated to represent the country at the United Nations. John's distinguished career in service to our nation demonstrated that he is the right man at the right time for this important assignment," President Bush said at the beginning of his remarks to Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America in Washington.

"I urge the Senate to put aside politics and confirm John Bolton to the United Nations."

Let's see what Sen. Voinovich thinks about that.

At 3:25 pm ET, the President speaks in the East Garden on the President's Environmental Youth Awards.

At 11:00 am ET, First Lady Laura Bush delivers remarks at the launch of the "Connecting Our Children to America" campaign to benefit by the National Park Foundation Junior Ranger program at the Jefferson Memorial. Interior Secretary Gale Norton, National Park Service officials, and Junior Rangers will attend.

Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan testifies before the Senate Budget Committee at 10:00 am ET.

The House meets at 10:00 am ET to vote on the energy bill.

Also at 10:00 am ET, Senate Finance Committee meets to consider the nomination of Rep. Robert Portman to be U.S. trade representative. Portman testifies.

Sen. Mitch McConnell spoke to the insurance agents and brokers at 8:15 am ET.

At 9:30 am ET, the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee holds a hearing on AMTRAK reauthorization.

At 2:00 pm ET, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R-PA) and Sens. Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), and Edward Kennedy (D-MA) hold a news conference to discuss legislation to allow government funding of embryonic stem cell research to proceed, and criminalizing the cloning of a human being.

At 11:00 am ET, House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL), House Resources Committee Chairman Richard Pombo (R-CA) and House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Joe Barton (R-TX) hold a news conference at the Exxon station near Union Station to discuss the energy bill. They'll be joined by many other members.

At 11:15 am ET, Sens. Rick Santorum (R-PA), Jon Corzine (D-NJ), Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Jim DeMint (R-SC), will hold a press conference to introduce the America Saving for Personal Investment, Retirement, and Education Act (ASPIRE Act) of 2005.

At 7:00 pm ET, Karl Rove speaks at Ashland University in Ashland, OH.

At 7:30 pm ET, the Alzheimer's Association hosts the America's Great Generations Gala. Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY), Michael Deaver, Andrew Card, Sargent and Eunice Shriver and Mark Shriver, deliver remarks.

The Coalition for a Fair and Independent Judiciary is sponsoring a series of rallies opposing the filibuster rules change today in Washington, DC (12:15 pm ET), Richmond, VA (10:00 am ET), Indianapolis, IN (1:00 pm ET), Nashville, TN (1:00 pm ET), Eugene, OR (7:00 pm ET), and both Portlands -- ME (noon ET) and OR (3:00 pm ET) at law schools, courts and public squares, featuring law professors and law students who have signed letters to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist urging him not to change the Senate rules to suspend the filibuster during judicial nominations. The Washington, DC event, at Georgetown Law School's student center, will also feature Sens. Dick Durbin (D-IL), Ted Kennedy (D-MA), Chuck Schumer (D-NY), and Joe Lieberman (D-CT).

Also Thursday, EMILY's List begins its Majority Conference in Washington, DC.

And the FEC holds an open meeting.

Economy:
The Washington Post's Jonathan Weisman and Dan Balz point out in their must-read that even with the economy in increasingly rough shape and wages not rising with the cost of living, lawmakers have been spending their time focused on Terri Schiavo, Tom DeLay, and filibusters -- and Americans are making their opinions about that known with low approval ratings for both the President and Congress. Now the question becomes how both Republicans and Democrats position themselves on jobs and gas prices, how they pitch those positions to voters, and what comes out of the 2006 elections. LINK

The politics of gas prices:
Warning and reminder: the record of Presidents Bush setting deadlines for Congress to act is mixed at best.

USA Today's Benedetto and Keen summarize Wednesday's rhetoric. LINK

Bumiller and Hulse -- New York Timespersons -- emphasize the President's admission that his plan would do nothing to help at the pump now. LINK

The Washington Post's Jim VandeHei throws this interesting paragraph into his wrap of President Bush's remarks on energy and the bill in Congress yesterday. LINK

"Bush, whose energy plan has been stalled in Congress for four years, is facing increased pressure from Democrats and a coalition of conservatives to do much more to promote alternative energy sources and more efficient vehicles this year. Some say the president should set aside, or scrap, his Social Security plan and dedicate his second term instead to dramatically restructuring the way Americans power their businesses, homes and cars. They cite the confluence of three events as reason to act immediately: the steep rise in oil and gas prices, increased U.S. dependency on the oil-rich Middle East and skyrocketing demand for oil in China and India."

Note the conservatives (Bauer and Gaffney) and their pro-energy-independence rhetoric.

The House moved forward on the energy bill Wednesday, but it's nowhere near a sure thing for passage, the Los Angeles Times' Richard Simon reports. LINK

Bolton:
The Washington Post's Chuck Babington and Jim VandeHei report that Sen. Lincoln Chafee (R-RI) appears to be leaning against supporting the nomination of John Bolton to be U.S. ambassador to the U.N., and said he'll talk to his GOP colleagues about whether or not the President should withdraw his nomination. Meanwhile, the White House is getting in fighting mode to save the nomination, accusing Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee of trumping up allegations against Bolton. LINK

And this graf is absolutely key:

"State Department spokesman Adam Ereli disputed a Washington Post report that, according to officials, Rice had told her senior staff members Monday that she did not want information coming out of the department that could hurt Bolton's nomination. Ereli called that 'very inaccurate' but declined to elaborate on what was said in the meeting."

The Los Angeles Times' Paul Richter and Ron Brownstein Note Scott McClellan's intimation that Sen. Voinovich doesn't know what he's talking about, and look at some conservatives' comments accusing Democrats of going after Bolton not because of his temperament and management style, but because of his ideology. Note well Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid's "damaged goods" comment. LINK

The New York Times' Bolton coverage -- by Jehl and Stolberg -- sees things "in growing danger" (the headline writers) and "some peril" (the reporters). LINK

The personalities that get focus: Chafee, Dodd, Voinovich, Cheney, McCain, Frist, and, of course, accuser Townsel.

"President George W. Bush's former ambassador to South Korea has contacted the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to report two confrontations he had with United Nations Ambassador-designate John Bolton," report Newsweek's Mike Isikoff and Mark Hosenball. LINK

The Wall Street Journal's King and Cooper have a lead that emphasizes Republican rallying, but includes this blind quote from a GOP committee aide, "The general support for Bolton has definitely taken a hit."

And this from a "Republican Party official, "We have a battle plan for judgeships but we haven't settled on a strategy for this one."

As for "(a)ttempts by the White House to pressure party members" which have "backfired in the past," the official is quoted thusly: "We're always cognizant of that."

The Wall Street Journal's ed board (which hasn't had time to weigh in again about Tom DeLay since March 28 (Hey, a lot has happened since then . . . )), goes to the barricades for Bolton in a must-read editorial that spares no one (except Bolton himself): Sen. Voinovich is feckless; Democrats and their allies are smearers; Bolton's accusers are commie sympathizers; Sens. Dodd and Biden are failed flimflammers; Sen. Lugar doesn't have his heart and soul in this (Note to Gigot: that's the key one!!!); and the White House and Senate GOP leaders aren't tough enough or strategic enough to shoot straight.

The Chicago Tribune's Mark Silva Notes that it's not just Democrats who President Bush has a problem with, but members of his own party too. LINK

The Providence Journal's Scott MacKay Notes Sen. Chafee's shift and his comment that Sen. Voinovich's defection was a "complete surprise." LINK

Latching onto a Condoleeza Rice quote interpreting the vote delay as an example of "the ugly side of Washington, D.C.," the Washington Times emphasizes the White House's unabashed and unwavering (favorable) attitude toward its nominee. LINK

Leader DeLay:
House Republicans offered yesterday to investigate allegations against House Majority Leader Tom DeLay yesterday, the Washington Post's Mike Allen reports, but Democrats say it still doesn't get at their objection to the rules changes that would dismiss a complaint against a member of Congress if there's no agreement between the chairman and the ranking minority member whether to investigate. Ethics committee chairman Doc Hastings also said the investigative subcommittee he's offering could address Democrats' accusations that the rules were changed to protect DeLay from investigation, and promised that a vote would be necessary to dismiss a complaint. LINK

David Rogers' Wall Street Journal round-up of the ethics panel logjam continues to push the Rogersian premise that the Speaker has the onus on him, as the leader of the whole body.

The Los Angeles Times' Mary Curtius leads with the Democrats' rebuff of Hastings' offer. LINK

"Republicans have struggled to find a way to break the impasse without looking like they are retreating from the rules package that they pushed through the House in January," Notes the Houston Chronicle's Gebe Martinez. LINK

The offer's not good enough, writes the Washington Post's editorial board. LINK

The New York Times does some investigative work and finds that many of the donors to DeLay's charity for children are large companies and individuals with some serious interest in legislation. LINK

Scribes Shenon and Strom find no laws broken -- just the usual complaints about the appearance of conflict, possible/alleged/hazy connections between gifts and the timing of legislative actions, and a cast of characters such as Bob Perry (of Swift Boat "fame") and Bill Gates (and Sylvia Matthews, hardly a DeLay crony!!!).

The organizations headed by Ralph Reed and Grover Norquist have been subpoenaed by the Senate Indian Affairs Committee in its investigation of Jack Abramoff, Roll Call's John Bresnahan and Paul Kane report. The next hearing is planned for late June.

AP's Suzanne Gamboa reports that DeLay treated donors to a Three Tenors concert in Abramoff's skybox in 2000.LINK

The Washington Times includes DeLay's comments that by rebuffing Republicans' attempts at amity through ethics rules review, Democrats may be shielding one of their own (Jim McDermott). Repudiated by House Ethics Committee ranking Dem Alan Mollohan, he "accused Republicans of running roughshod over Democrats with three changes to the rules governing how the ethics committee investigates complaints against members." LINK

Reps. Rahm Emanuel (D-IL) and Marty Meehan (D-MA) will introduce legislation requiring lobbyists "to say how private groups pay for congressional travel, force lawmakers to disclose their ties to nonprofit groups and double the time that retiring lawmakers and staff would have to wait before lobbying, to two years," The Hill's Jonathan Kaplan reports. LINK

Members know this is coming, as the media starts to turn over other rocks:

Bloomberg's Michael Forsythe looks at Ohio Rep. Michael Oxley (R) and his status as "the most frequent user of company jets among all 535 members of Congress."

Roll Call's Tory Newmyer reports that Rep. Neil Abercrombie (D-HI) has asked the ethics committee to review a trip he took in 2001 paid for by a lobbying firm.

Filibuster showdown:
The Hill's Alexander Bolton writes (a big scoop if true!!) that Sen. Rick Santorum is arguing privately to delay pulling that trigger after looking at internal GOP polling, and according to a GOP aide, is worried about the mix of issues on the table, including the Schiavo case and DeLay's comments about accountability for judges -- and/or maybe just about timing. LINK

The Los Angeles Times' Maura Reynolds casts Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist in the tightest position of his political life on the judicial filibuster fight, keeping a close eye on all of the stakes for Frist's Senate and for his presidential bid, and demonstrates why everyone calls Charlie Cook. LINK

"'If Frist thinks doing this is going to make him the first choice of cultural and social conservatives, he's wrong,' said Charles Cook, an independent political analyst. 'His natural constituency is country club Republicans who are put off by what he's doing. And I think he's driving his campaign into the ground.'"

"Cook agreed with others that Frist had left himself little alternative except to proceed with the nuclear option, but that he should be careful about timing."

"'Republican strategists are privately saying it's a really terrible idea to pull the trigger right now,' Cook said. 'If you are going to pull the trigger, you need to wait until the dust settles a bit.'"

Bob Novak shows which side he is on by writing that Democrats weren't so quick to defend the use of the filibuster and decry majority rule when they were in the majority, and writes that Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV), now the darling of MoveOn, did a number on Senate rules in the 1970s and '80s in favor of majority rule when he was majority leader. LINK

Ted Olson pens a Wall Street Journal op-ed that criticizes those who are politicizing the judiciary, including -- without naming names -- Tom DeLay and others who have suggested new "oversight" of the co-equal branch.

Dean David Broder (no offense to him or his editors, but seriously, read that lede aloud) neatly sums up his theory on the fight over the filibuster, Noting that while both sides are in it for real, there's a cottage industry surrounding opposing judicial nominees. ". . . [I]t is remarkable that the United States Senate is considering reducing itself to a smaller version of the House of Representatives by curtailing its long tradition of unlimited debate merely to satisfy the imperatives of rival interest groups." LINK

Per the Boston Herald, Sen. John Kerry argued yesterday that the biblical card consistently played by some Republican lawmakers has run its course. Assailing such "orthodoxy of view," he expressed doubt about God's desire to simply pack the courts full of conservatives. LINK

Today, Kerry's releasing a taped video message to his 3 million-strong johnkerry.com list, going after Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and saying Washington is out of touch with what people want from their leaders. LINK

Social Security:
Finance Chair Grassley tells USA Today's Bill Welch that he will now try to pass a bill out of committee with just Republican support, and bring Democrats on board later. LINK

With no apparent irony and a great Iowa sense of logic, Grassley is quoted as saying, "At least it's a start."

And/but Roll Call's Emily Pierce reports that many moderate Senate Democrats have been meeting on the quiet with the White House to discuss possibilities, though they insist there's no plan from the White House, which is partly why they're not on board.

Note Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) agreeing with Sen. David Pryor (D-AR) that the only way for the White House to try to start convincing people is to lay out a detailed blueprint.

Dick Stevenson of the New York Times largely asserts that the recent stock market troubles are not well timed for a President seeking to create personal accounts. LINK

The Manchester Union Leader takes a look at Sen. John Sununu's second-time-around effort at adapting Social Security to include private accounts. Following his lead, Rep. Paul Ryan will also re-file the bill in the House, he said yesterday. LINK

Bush agenda:
The New York Times' Sam Dillon front-pages the latest lawsuits against the President's signature education law. LINK

More from AP's Ben Feller. LINK

The Baltimore Sun wraps RNC chair Ken Mehlman's remarks to the Maryland GOP about expanding the state's Republican ranks. LINK

Congress:
Sen. Ted Kennedy introduced an amendment to the war supplemental to add up to $213 million to help the Army continue to produce armored humvees. Sen. Evan Bayh (D-IN) co-sponsored the measure. LINK

Roll Call's Suzanne Nelson reports that yesterday's House hearing on whether the participation of 527 groups in federal elections should be regulated ended up being a forum for members of Congress to kvetch about BCRA.

The New York Daily News' James Gordon Meek reports that Senate Democrats are trying to end a 10-year, $21 million investigation that implicates several Clinton Administration employees for obstruction of justice by attaching an amendment to a spending bill to cut off Independent Counsel David Barrett's funding by June 1. Passage would kill Barrett's final report naming officials in Clinton's DoJ and IRS "who allegedly buried a tax fraud case involving former cabinet member Henry Cisneros." LINK

Values and ethics and morals, oh my:
Robin Toner of the New York Times takes a front-page look at how the new Pope might play in American politics, where liberals are still steamed about what happened in 2004. LINK

David Brooks' New York Times column blames everything that is wrong in America with the way Roe v. Wade took the abortion debate out of the political realm. Not an original thesis, but presented with heft. LINK

William Yardley of the New York Times chronicles the signing of the civil union law in Connecticut and why it is all happening there with such relative quiet. LINK

The Connecticut legislature voted Wednesday to make it the third state to legally recognize same-sex couples, permitting same-sex partners to enter into civil unions and granting them nearly all of the rights and responsibilities available to married couples. Gov. Jodi Rell signed the bill about an hour after it passed, and it goes into effect Oct. 1, the Hartford Courant's Daniela Altimari reports.LINK

"Connecticut's civil unions will not be recognized by the federal government and will carry no weight in the 49 other states, including Vermont," Notes the Boston Globe's Sarah Schweitzer. LINK

On the front page of the Washington Post, Spencer Hsu and Lori Montgomery look at the extremely careful path that Washington, DC Mayor Anthony Williams has been warned to tread over same-sex marriage by Sen. Sam Brownback (R-KS), lest the city's budget and domestic-partner benefits be jeopardized if Williams sides with the city attorney general's opinion that a same-sex couple married in Massachusetts could file a joint tax return in the District. LINK

The Texas House passed a bill yesterday to prohibit gays and lesbians from becoming foster parents. The bill would also turn over all Child Protective Services' foster care and case management to private companies, which currently handle 75 percent of foster homes. The measure now heads to the state Senate. LINK

2006:
The Washington Post on Sen. Jeffords' retirement: LINK

The Boston Globe's Susan Milligan has Rep. Barney Frank saying senior House Democrats would discourage a Democratic challenge to Rep. Bernie Sanders (I) if he gets in. LINK

The Los Angeles Times' James Gerstenzang casts Gov. Jim Douglas as a reluctant possible candidate. LINK

Roll Call's Nicole Duran does an excellent job of reading and explaining the seismic shift in the Vermont political landscape.

More on the coming race from Darren Allen of the Rutland Herald. LINK

John Briggs of the Burlington Free Press Notes the fund-raising letter from the Vermont GOP as recently as a few weeks ago attacking Jeffords' party switch. LINK

The Providence Journal's Scott Mayerowitz examines speculation about whether Cranston Mayor Stephen Laffey will challenge Sen. Lincoln Chafee in the Republican primary, and Notes the race beeping on the Club for Growth's radar screen.LINK

Howard Dean speaks:
Yesterday in Washington, DC, Chairman/Gov. Howard Dean laid out some of his 50-state strategy to the Building & Construction Trades Department of the AFL-CIO. Entering the room to a standing ovation and the blasting Red Hot Chili Peppers' version of "Higher Ground," Dean went on to talk about his plan to get the Democratic Party active in all 50 states, and that he'd be relying on labor to provide the kind of grassroots support among friends, family, and neighbors that Republicans relied on so successfully in 2004.

And it's time for Democrats to talk about moral values, Dean said -- and it's not all about gay marriage and abortion.

Sayeth he: Not leaving kids with more debt than there was when you got there is a moral value, he said, as is a retirement with dignity. So is honesty, and telling people the truth about why the government does what it does and those who are going to war why they're going.

Then he went after DeLay and the filibuster fight:

"Honesty is a moral value. It is not moral for the highest ranking person -- even though technically he's not, we all know he is -- the highest ranking person in the Republican Congress to be reprimanded three times for ethics violations, and his response is to get rid of the ethics committee. Corruption in office is not a moral value."

"We can do better than this. It is not a moral value to change the rules in the middle of the game because you don't like the fact that the Democrats still do have a tiny bit of say -- the idea that because Democrats have confirmed the last 200 some-odd judges and not the last 10 extreme people that the congress of the united states under Republican leadership would overturn 200 years of precedent -- the only place that the minority in this country is heard -- in order to put those 10 people on the bench -- we can do better than that. We need people who'll stand up for America, not just the Republican party, in office."

The Minneapolis Star Tribune has Gov. Dean talking about Iraq last night. LINK

2008: Republicans:
The Hill's Geoff Earle turns in this week's look at a 2008 contender, and Notes that Sen. John McCain's overtures of solidarity in the 2004 campaign put him on far different footing than he was on in 2000.LINK

The New York Daily News reports that Gov. George Pataki's 21st Century Freedom PAC has taken in $690,000 so far this year. LINK

2008: Democrats:
Sen. Hillary Clinton's no more polarizing than the next politician -- particularly in this hyper-polarized era, writes the Boston Globe's Ellen Goodman. LINK

But as if to prove otherwise, the New York Sun's Gerstein reports:

"A Democratic fund-raiser involved in Senator Clinton's 2000 campaign has offered a guilty plea to bank fraud charges and is likely to become a government witness at the upcoming federal trial of a top finance aide to Mrs. Clinton, David Rosen, court records obtained by The New York Sun show." LINK

"As part of an FBI investigation into alleged campaign finance reporting violations by Mrs. Clinton's campaign, the mystery witness secretly taped a conversation with Mr. Rosen in September 2002 and apparently tried to elicit statements from the former Clinton staffer about financial irregularities involving an August 2000 Hollywood fund-raising event."

The New York Post looks at the celeb donations to Sen. Clinton. LINK

Deb Orin gets all excited about the Hillary Meter poll that supposedly shows the Senator leaning farther left of America's political center. LINK

The New York Times Edmund Andrews looks at Sen. Evan Bayh's hold on the nomination of Rob Portman to be trade rep in the context of the boiling anger in Congress over China and trade and exchange rates. LINK

2005:
The New York Times' Diane Cardwell has a joint interview with Sharpton and Marjorie Harris, in which the pair say that a mayoral endorsement could come right before the primary, but not now. LINK

The paper's Joyce Purnick has a column that makes us think that she isn't too impressed with the Democratic field either. LINK

Rev. Al Sharpton told New York 1 he won't back Ferrer for mayor this time around, the New York Post reports. LINK

The New York Post's Ian Bishop and Deborah Orin have the latest on the wiretap investigation of Sharpton fund-raisers, who said they hoped he could get them access to PepsiCo. LINK

The gloves and the spending cap are off in the mayor's race, the Los Angeles Times reports, because two unions close to Mayor James Hahn reported Wednesday that they're spending $320,000 to support his campaign. Hahn has benefited from more than $402,000 in independent expenditures, while outside groups have spent nearly $122,000 to help Antonio Villaraigosa. "There are no limits on independent expenditures, but spending more than $200,000 for or against a candidate removes the $1.8-million cap on how much candidates can spend." LINK

The Schwarzenegger era:
Gov. Schwarzenegger is backing away from his "close the borders" comment Tuesday. LINK

Iowa:
The Des Moines Register reports that through creative bookkeeping, Iowa will now enroll some 30,000 previously uninsured individuals in Medicaid, without raising overall state health care costs. "The proposed change was spurred by a warning from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that the federal government was going to crack down on states, including Iowa, that use accounting procedures to qualify for large pots of Medicaid money. The change means Iowa stands to lose about $65 million and an additional $115 million in matching money, lawmakers said." LINK

Acela:
The high-speed service has come to a grinding halt, at least for the season. LINK

Politics:
There is another major chapter in the modern book "Business gets more like politics and vice versa."

Taping into trend to run business campaigns like, well, campaigns, a new consortium has been put together in DC.

Uber lobbyists Quinn and Gillespie and business spinsters Burston-Marsteller have teamed up with Republican media moguls Stuart Stevens and Russ Schriefer to offer a full service sort of pep squad for whatever business-issue problem ails y'all, on any side of the aisle.

The idea is to give corporate and issues clients a sense that they can get one-stop-shopping at the highest levels across a range of services, with three of the city's preeminent forces in PR, lobbying, and communications are working together.

Informed observers believe the enterprise will be more successful than the Kasich for President effort that Mr. Gillespie and Mr. Stevens worked on.

And in another seismic move, Bloomberg has announced that Joe Lockhart, former top spokesman for President Clinton and John Feehery, former top spokesman for Speaker Hastert, will regularly appear on Bloomberg Television. The Feheery-Lockhart segment, part of Bloomberg's daily Money & Politics show, will be called "Inside Outlook" and will air at 2:45 pm ET on Friday. Each week either Feehery or Lockhart will analyze what's on the horizon the next week or on the weekend television shows. Sometimes they will appear together. (Note to the boys: make sure you time your haircuts appropriately.)

Page Six makes Bob Kerrey seem like a bull in the New School's china shop. LINK