memeorandum @ 11:10 PM ET, April 19, 2006

11:10 PM ET, April 19, 2006

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Bauer Replaces McClellan as Press Secretary — What better way to reign in the White House Press Corps than to install Jack Bauer as Press Secretary? Let's see if David Gregory has the guts to ask Jack Bauer about "sloppy seconds". Imagine Jack Bauer trying to sit still while Helen Thomas goes on one of her diatribes.

Discussion: All Things Beautiful, Power Line, Publius Rendezvous and Hugh Hewitt

Washington Post:

McClellan Out as White House Press Secretary — Karl Rove Gives Up Policy Oversight to Focus on 2006 Elections — White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan announced his resignation this morning and President's Bush's longtime adviser Karl Rove is scaling back his responsibilities.

Discussion: The Left Coaster, Captain's Quarters, Happy Furry Puppy Story …, The Carpetbagger Report, TAPPED, The Gun Toting Liberal, Wonkette, The Huffington Post, Done With Mirrors, Alternate Brain, Media Blog on National …, Bark Bark Woof Woof and Middle Earth Journal

Mike Allen / Time:

Behind the White House Reshuffling — The President's Press Secretary Scott McClellan announced that he would resign today, and more Cabinet changes are likely to follow. Plus, Karl Rove gives up some responsibilities to an up-and-comer — The sudden announcement by Scott McClellan …

Discussion: Ace of Spades HQ and Wonkette

John O'Neil / New York Times:

Staff Overhaul Continues at White House — The overhaul of the White House staff continued today as Scott McClellan stepped down as the president's chief spokesman and Karl Rove gave up his portfolio as senior policy coordinator to concentrate more on politics and November's midterm Congressional elections.

Discussion: Guardian, Air America Radio, The Washington Monthly, Pam's House Blend, Blog for America, The Original Blog, The Heretik, Shakespeare's Sister and Who Is IOZ?

Jason Reed / MSNBC:

Bush changes: Rove shifts, press chief quits — Top aide to focus on midterm elections; McClellan parried tough questions — White House Deputy Chief of Staff and presidential advisor Karl Rove gestures to hush the crowd as he prepares to speak during the Republican National Committee 2006.

Discussion: In The Pink Texas, BLACKFIVE and Daily Kos

Joe Strupp / Editor and Publisher:

Valerie Plame To Attend White House Correspondents Dinner — NEW YORK Will Valerie Plame be the talk of this year's White House Correspondents Dinner? E&P has confirmed that she is slated to attend this year's gala, along with her husband Joseph Wilson and several other notable non-journalist guests …

Discussion: Booman Tribune

Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
McClellan Leaves White House Press Office

Discussion: The Reaction, The Huffington Post, Outside The Beltway, A Chequer-Board of Nights …, Truthdig, The Democratic Daily Blog, Atlas Shrugs, True Blue Liberal, The All Spin Zone, This Blog Is Full Of Crap and Demagogue

John Podesta / Think Progress:
Has Rove's Security Clearance Been Revoked?

Discussion: Firedoglake, The Carpetbagger Report, Democrats.com, Democrat Taylor Marsh …, First Draft, Davids Medienkritik, News Hounds and The Democratic Daily Blog

Peter Baker / Washington Post:
White House Puts Face on North Korean Human Rights

Discussion: The Political Pit Bull

Howard Fineman / MSNBC:
Mounting problems for another administration

Discussion: The Carpetbagger Report, AGITPROP and Middle Earth Journal

Justin Rood / TPM Muckraker:

Trying To Get Muckraker's Papers, Did FBI Trick Widow? — This morning's newspapers are ablaze with the outrageous news that the FBI was trying to get its hands on over 200 boxes of files once belonging to legendary investigative journalist Jack Anderson. — What the papers didn't report …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo

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Attorneys: Photos Will Exonerate Players

Discussion: RightWinged.com

Tony Judt / New York Times:

A Lobby, Not a Conspiracy — IN its March 23rd issue the London Review of Books, a respected British journal, published an essay titled "The Israel Lobby." The authors are two distinguished American academics (Stephen Walt of Harvard and John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago) …

Discussion: Power Line, The American Thinker, TigerHawk, The Volokh Conspiracy, PrawfsBlawg and The All Spin Zone

Anne Applebaum / Washington Post:

Tilting at Windmills — To my eye, they are lovely: Graceful, delicate, white against green grass and a blue sky. Last summer my children and I stopped specially to watch a group of them, wheels turning in the breeze. — But to those who dislike them, the modern wind turbine is worse than ugly.

Discussion: Captain's Quarters, Big Lizards, Blue Crab Boulevard and PrairiePundit

Mohammed / IRAQ THE MODEL:

Kill us, but you won't enslave us. — Last week we stopped writing for a while and we apologized to our readers saying that we lost a close friend but we didn't want to give more details as we were overwhelmed by an exceptional situation and a huge shock. We also were afraid from writing …

Discussion: Big Lizards, Wall Street Cafe A.K.A. …, Done With Mirrors, Daimnation!, Winds of Change.NET, The Jawa Report v3.0 Beta, Hyscience and Security Watchtower

Michael Tomasky / American Prospect:

Party in Search of a Notion — From our May issue: The opportunity before the Democrats is far bigger than a few House and Senate seats if they can recognize — and seize — this unique historical moment. — The Democrats are feeling upbeat these days, and why not?

Discussion: Eschaton, Daily Kos, Shakespeare's Sister, Fact-esque, Norwegianity, Interesting Times and Prairie Weather

Mike Stobbe / Associated Press:

U.S. Records Drastic Decline in Death Rate — ATLANTA - In what appears to be an amazing success for American medicine, preliminary government figures released Wednesday showed that the annual number of deaths in the U.S. dropped by nearly 50,000 in 2004 — the biggest decline in nearly 70 years.

Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard and Centerfield

Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:

All in the Family — Glenn Greenwald has a post up about the Horowitzian effort to block blogger Juan Cole from receiving an offer to teach at the Yale Center for International and Area Studies and in the Yale History Department. It's no surprise; it is during college that many begin …

Discussion: Unclaimed Territory, Middle Earth Journal, The American Street, The American Thinker and Power Line

NY Daily News:

Gulp! Try $4.50! — Brooklyn gas station floors it — With pump prices rising fast, a gas station under the Brooklyn Bridge took a quantum leap into outrageousness - charging a jaw-dropping $4.50 a gallon! — That's what the Gulf Station on Old Fulton St. in Brooklyn Heights …

Henry Chu / Los Angeles Times:

Wombs for Rent, Cheap — Surrogate mothers in India are a bargain for foreigners, and the women reap a bonanza. But some observers say they pay a price. — ANAND, India — As temp jobs go, Saroj Mehli has landed what she feels is a pretty sweet deal. It's a nine-month gig …

Discussion: The Blogging of the President, Feministe, Hit and Run and The Liberal Avenger