K-Eye is reporting that 1-2,000 people may be without phone service until Saturday in an area north/northeast of downtown. The more amusing part is the mistake in the headline. For a minute, I thought Austin Energy had missed a section of the city after those big storms a week or so ago and some people were still without power.
I couldn’t pass this up. I went and got a little more of the quote from the press briefing for context:
Q Okay. But, I mean, maybe it was a terrific meeting. As far as I can tell, that has not stopped Republicans, particularly in the House, from going gangbusters against this President before they’ve had a chance to read everything, as you say they should do.
MR. SNOW: Well, as I pointed out — I mentioned this yesterday, and for — let me see if I can find my quote, because I pulled it out. Chuck Hagel, as you may recall, made a fair amount of news over the weekend when he first said that — let’s see — “Well, I want to listen to the details and I want to listen to the President,” said Senator Hagel — he said this on “This Week” on a competing network. But I would say this: I think we have to be very careful here. That’s not the role of our military, that’s not the role of our National Guard.” That’s what Senator Hagel said on Sunday.
Poor Tony Snow, working for Fox News long enough to view all of the other media outlets (This Week with George Stephanopoulos is on ABC) as competition. This is all still just too surreal.
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