"How's everything going?" Inside the Beltway asked former Maryland Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, bumping into the eldest of Robert and Ethel Kennedy's 11 children in the "Quiet Car" of Amtrak's Acela Express as it traveled between Washington and Boston.
Figuring correctly that we had politics on our mind, Mrs. Kennedy Townsend, apparently predicting victory for her Democratic Party in the 2008 presidential campaign, smiled and whispered back: "Everything will be better next year."
Pause for hardball
Inside the Beltway spotted several well-known Washington political types in the stands of Fenway Park for Game 1 of the World Series between the Boston Red Sox and Colorado Rockies, including:
Former presidential adviser David Gergen, MSNBC "Hardball" host Chris Matthews, political pollster and campaign strategist Frank Luntz, Weekly Standard Executive Editor and TV pundit Fred Barnes, U.S. Chamber of Commerce national political Director William C. Miller Jr., and the Fox News Channel chief political correspondent Carl Cameron, who made the short drive to Beantown Wednesday night from Manchester, N.H., where he's on the heels of the 2008 presidential candidates.
Same SCHIP
"Meet the new SCHIP bill, the same as the old SCHIP bill."
Or such is the clever, if not R-rated play on words by House Minority Leader John A. Boehner of Ohio, who says the Democratic majority's latest SCHIP (State Children's Health Insurance Program) bill still insures adults and illegal aliens at the expense of low-income children.
Special day
As anticipated, there was plenty of reaction from readers about a new study finding that men who wear bow ties are "a little weird." A majority of those polled, in fact, said they don't want a bow-tie wearer "in the neighborhood, as a friend, or in the family."
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