<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - White House Briefing </title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/administration/whbriefing?nav=rss_politics/administration/whbriefing</link><description>White House Briefing </description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Commencement, Christian-Style]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9222-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_politics/administration/whbriefing</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9222-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_politics/administration/whbriefing</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 11:17:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The White House announced yesterday that President Bush will give two commencement addresses next month, one at the U.S. Naval Academy and one at Calvin College in Western Michigan.]]></description><author>washingtonpost.com</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Magic Wands Bush Won't Wave]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6885-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_politics/administration/whbriefing</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6885-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_politics/administration/whbriefing</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 11:17:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ For months, the stock White House response to question about high gas prices has been to call for passage of President Bush's energy plan -- as if the two were related.]]></description><author>washingtonpost.com</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bush Talk is All Business]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4686-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_politics/administration/whbriefing</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4686-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_politics/administration/whbriefing</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 11:17:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ In a rare one-on-one interview, President Bush sat down in the White House library with CNBC anchor Ron Insana on Monday and talked at length about gas prices, Social Security, and the trade deficit.]]></description><author>washingtonpost.com</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Karl Rove, Media Critic]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A997-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_politics/administration/whbriefing</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A997-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_politics/administration/whbriefing</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 11:17:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Asked to give a lecture last night about "The Polarized Press: Media and Politics in the Age of Bush," Karl Rove was blunt: It's all the press's fault.]]></description><author>washingtonpost.com</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bush's Gas Attack]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62897-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_politics/administration/whbriefing</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62897-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_politics/administration/whbriefing</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 11:17:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Stung by a dramatic fall in his approval ratings at least partially due to public distress over rising gas prices, President Bush used his weekly <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/04/20050416.html">radio address</a> on Saturday to announce a new "first order of business": Getting Congress to pass his controversial and long-stalled energy bill.]]></description><author>washingtonpost.com</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Twists for Bush's Roadshow]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56290-2005Apr15.html?nav=rss_politics/administration/whbriefing</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56290-2005Apr15.html?nav=rss_politics/administration/whbriefing</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 11:17:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ President Bush's Social Security roadshow pulls into Kirtland, Ohio, today and in at least two ways promises to be a break from the almost indistinguishable events of the past several months.]]></description><author>washingtonpost.com</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Widows Give Bush an Earful]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53070-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_politics/administration/whbriefing</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53070-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_politics/administration/whbriefing</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 11:17:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Behind closed doors at the Ft. Hood army base on Tuesday, President Bush got an earful from some Iraq-war widows, who told him that the way the government is treating them is disgraceful.]]></description><author>washingtonpost.com</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pumping Up the Volume]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49955-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_politics/administration/whbriefing</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49955-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_politics/administration/whbriefing</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 11:17:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ President Bush ratcheted up the rhetoric of his revisionist justification for war yesterday at the Fort Hood army base in Texas, calling the taking of Baghdad "one of the great moments in the history of liberty."]]></description><author>washingtonpost.com</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lovefest or Slugfest?]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46476-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_politics/administration/whbriefing</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46476-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_politics/administration/whbriefing</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 11:17:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The <a href="http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/search?p=bush++sharon+crawford&#38;ei=UTF-8&#38;fl=0&#38;c=news_photos">visuals</a> were all warm and fuzzy, showing President Bush taking Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on a coveted tour of his ranch, the two men standing proudly side by side before the microphones, Bush even passing Sharon a <a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&#38;u=/050411/ids_photos_wl/r2372371393.jpg">tray of chocolates</a> wrapped in Israeli flags.]]></description><author>washingtonpost.com</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Preacher 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and more polls are telling the same story: Americans no longer approve of the way President Bush is doing his job.]]></description><author>washingtonpost.com</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Congress Wakes]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34078-2005Apr7.html?nav=rss_politics/administration/whbriefing</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34078-2005Apr7.html?nav=rss_politics/administration/whbriefing</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 11:17:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[There are signs this morning that Congress may be remembering that one of its roles is to conduct oversight of the White House.]]></description><author>washingtonpost.com</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Promises, Promises]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30794-2005Apr6.html?nav=rss_politics/administration/whbriefing</link><guid 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week.]]></description><author>washingtonpost.com</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The President, the Pope and the Politics]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24938-2005Apr4.html?nav=rss_politics/administration/whbriefing</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24938-2005Apr4.html?nav=rss_politics/administration/whbriefing</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 11:17:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[President Bush's decision to attend Pope John Paul II's funeral in the Vatican on Friday is a testament both to the incredible stature of the man who led the Catholic Church for 26 years -- and to the increasingly conspicuous role of religion in modern American politics.]]></description><author>washingtonpost.com</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who Gets Held to Account?]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18833-2005Apr1.html?nav=rss_politics/administration/whbriefing</link><guid 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People down the food chain feel a nearly palpable pressure to please the people at the top of the food chain -- without anyone necessarily saying a word.]]></description><author>washingtonpost.com</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[White House Gets a Pass]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15778-2005Mar31.html?nav=rss_politics/administration/whbriefing</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15778-2005Mar31.html?nav=rss_politics/administration/whbriefing</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 11:17:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The commission that President Bush appointed to determine how intelligence on Iraqi WMDs could have gone so wrong is spreading blame just about everywhere but the White House.]]></description><author>washingtonpost.com</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Accident or a Policy?]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12898-2005Mar30.html?nav=rss_politics/administration/whbriefing</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12898-2005Mar30.html?nav=rss_politics/administration/whbriefing</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 11:17:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ It is flatly un-American for people to be hauled out of a public event with the president of the United States because of, say, a political bumper sticker on their car.]]></description><author>washingtonpost.com</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stealth Panel Ready to Report]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9634-2005Mar29.html?nav=rss_politics/administration/whbriefing</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9634-2005Mar29.html?nav=rss_politics/administration/whbriefing</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 11:17:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The super-secret commission grudgingly appointed more than a year ago by President Bush to investigate flawed intelligence on weapons of mass destruction is expected to deliver its report to the White House on Thursday.]]></description><author>washingtonpost.com</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bush's Two Minds]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6868-2005Mar28.html?nav=rss_politics/administration/whbriefing</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6868-2005Mar28.html?nav=rss_politics/administration/whbriefing</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 11:17:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ For a guy who's so resolute, President Bush is apparently of two minds when it comes to the Terri Schiavo case. 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