<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - White House Notebook</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/fedpage/columns/whitehousenotebook?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/whitehousenotebook</link><description>White House Notebook</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['Full Confidence'? Uh-Oh.]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62028-2004Dec13.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/whitehousenotebook</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62028-2004Dec13.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/whitehousenotebook</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:19:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Logic implies that when White House officials say "full confidence," they mean "full confidence." In fact, the phrase has become a Bush euphemism, a warning to the person in question that this might be a good time to circulate the resume.]]></description><author> Dana Milbank</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Israeli Hawk Accepts the President's Invitation]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5556-2004Nov22.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/whitehousenotebook</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5556-2004Nov22.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/whitehousenotebook</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:19:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Those looking for clues about President Bush's second-term policy for the Middle East  might be interested to know that, nine days after his reelection victory, the president summoned to the White House an Israeli politician so hawkish that he has accused Ariel Sharon of being soft on the Palestinians.]]></description><author> Dana Milbank</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Halliburton, the Second-Term Curse?]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35234-2004Nov8.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/whitehousenotebook</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35234-2004Nov8.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/whitehousenotebook</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:19:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The White House's Halliburton Honeymoon is already history. Only two days after President Bush declared victory in his quest for a second term, the company once run by Vice President Cheney dropped a political bomb.]]></description><author> Dana Milbank</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old Whines in Barely New Bottles]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62572-2004Oct25.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/whitehousenotebook</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62572-2004Oct25.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/whitehousenotebook</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:19:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[President Bush's campaign has been particularly effective in drawing new media attention to essentially the same message by  adding a few new turns of phrase.]]></description><author> Dana Milbank</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bush's Domestic Policy Gap]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25311-2004Oct11.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/whitehousenotebook</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25311-2004Oct11.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/whitehousenotebook</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:19:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[President Bush, going into tomorrow night's debate over domestic issues with the  Democratic challenger, Sen. John F. Kerry (Mass.), will be defending the smallest domestic agenda a first-term president has had in at least 44 years.]]></description><author> Dana Milbank</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Couldn't Have Said It Any Better Himself]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55180-2004Sep27.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/whitehousenotebook</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55180-2004Sep27.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/whitehousenotebook</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:19:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   It's a political whodunit: Since Ayad Allawi delivered his address to a joint meeting of Congress on Thursday, foreign policy devotees have been searching for the ghostwriter of the speech, which sounded curiously familiar to American ears.]]></description><author> Dana Milbank</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bush's Records Keep Trickling Out]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18907-2004Sep13.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/whitehousenotebook</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18907-2004Sep13.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/whitehousenotebook</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:19:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The search for Bush's Guard documents continues -- and is being directed by a three-star general, according to a person with knowledge of the situation.]]></description><author> Dana Milbank</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Swift Shift in Stories]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47542-2004Aug30.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/whitehousenotebook</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47542-2004Aug30.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/whitehousenotebook</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:19:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Four days ago, retired naval Rear Adm. William L. Schachte Jr. seconded accusations made by the group Swift Boat Veterans for Truth seeking to discredit Democratic presidential nominee John F. Kerry's record in Vietnam. But Democrats have since discovered that Schachte is a long-standing Bush supporter and a lobbyist whose client FastShip Inc. recently won a $40 million grant from the federal government.]]></description><author> Dana Milbank</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do You Hear What I Hear?]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26935-2004Aug23.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/whitehousenotebook</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26935-2004Aug23.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/whitehousenotebook</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:19:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The 2004 presidential campaign sometimes resembles the children's game of "telephone." Case in point, some quotations as they came out of Democratic nominee John F. Kerry's mouth -- and how President Bush and Vice President Cheney later recounted them.]]></description><author> Dana Milbank</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reprising a War With Words]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6375-2004Aug16.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/whitehousenotebook</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6375-2004Aug16.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/whitehousenotebook</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:19:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The malapropisms that adorned George W. Bush's 2000 campaign before going into remission during much of his presidency have reemerged to garnish his reelection bid.]]></description><author> Dana Milbank</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keeping the Power]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16536-2004Jul26.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/whitehousenotebook</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16536-2004Jul26.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/whitehousenotebook</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:19:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[With all deliberate speed and a bit of pell-mell scramble, the White House is trying to keep up with lawmakers as they race to implement the recommendations of the Sept. 11 commission.]]></description><author> Dana Milbank</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Kerry Campaign's One-Word Weapon]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62623-2004Jul19.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/whitehousenotebook</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62623-2004Jul19.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/whitehousenotebook</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:19:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[There is seemingly no charge the Bush campaign can level against John F. Kerry that will not produce a one-word retort: Halliburton.]]></description><author> Dana Milbank</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bush's Highest-Paid Staff Is Mostly Male]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45237-2004Jul12.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/whitehousenotebook</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45237-2004Jul12.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/whitehousenotebook</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:19:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The president's men are doing very well. The president's women are doing slightly less well, but still not bad, according to figures from a White House salary list leaked to The Washington Post.]]></description><author> Dana Milbank</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Administration vs. the Administration]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13200-2004Jun28.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/whitehousenotebook</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13200-2004Jun28.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/whitehousenotebook</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:19:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[White House counsel Alberto R. Gonzales assembled reporters in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building last week for what has become an administration ritual: disavowing the conclusions of official documents.]]></description><author> Dana Milbank</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[All News Is Good News]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41736-2004Jun14.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/whitehousenotebook</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41736-2004Jun14.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/whitehousenotebook</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:19:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ All presidents harbor a desire to get around what President Bush calls the "media filter" and deliver the news directly to the people. But what would such unfiltered news look like?]]></description><author> Dana Milbank</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Making Hay Out of Straw Men]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4757-2004May31.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/whitehousenotebook</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4757-2004May31.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/whitehousenotebook</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:19:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[For President Bush, this is the season of the straw man. It is an ancient debating technique: Caricature your opponent's argument, then knock down the straw man you created. In the 2004 campaign, Bush has been knocking down such phantoms on subjects from Iraq to free trade.]]></description><author> Dana Milbank</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stabilization Is Its Middle Name]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34519-2004May17.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/whitehousenotebook</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34519-2004May17.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/whitehousenotebook</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:19:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[With all the chaos and uncertainty in Iraq, this would be a good time to call on the White House's Iraq Stabilization Group. At least it would have been a good time to call on the Stabilization Group if the group itself had not become, er, unstable.]]></description><author> Dana Milbank</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[In White House Pool, Making a Splash]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63927-2004May3.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/whitehousenotebook</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63927-2004May3.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/whitehousenotebook</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:19:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Because of limited space in the presidential motorcade, on Air Force One and in the Oval Office, the White House organizes a rotation of "pool" reporters who send write-ups to colleagues. The Chicago Tribune's Bob Kemper, who is leaving for a job at the Atlanta Journal Constitution, was unquestionably the master of the creative, pithy pool report.]]></description><author> Dana Milbank</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the White House, With Silence]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25451-2004Apr19.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/whitehousenotebook</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25451-2004Apr19.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/whitehousenotebook</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:19:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Americans seeking to know what President Bush said in his phone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier this month went to the obvious place: the Kremlin.]]></description><author> Dana Milbank</author></item><item><title><![CDATA['Background' Moves to Forefront]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52988-2004Apr5.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/whitehousenotebook</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52988-2004Apr5.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage/columns/whitehousenotebook</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:19:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The notion of speaking "on background" has been around for decades, allowing reporters to get senior administration officials to speak candidly, and sometimes critically, about their boss's policies. But somewhere along the line, administrations learned to turn background backward.]]></description><author> Dana Milbank</author></item></channel></rss>
