This Week In Pool Reports

Does The White House need some new joke writers? What will they do when the pending nuptials are over? "No news, some color in transcripts for those who care for such trifles. The president's first stop of the evening was the NRCC fundraising dinner at the Washington Hilton. About 2,000 loyal Republicans were present in business attire. The NRCC reported raising $8.6 million at their 'Earning Back the Majority' event. The president started speaking during the salad course. He said the first lady was busy with wedding planning and as such, he appreciated the NRCC invite. He said next year the group's keynote would be 'President McCain,' and that he, Bush, would be 'watching it all on TV in Crawford.' For himself, the president said, 'I intend to finish strong, with my head held high.' (pooler: just like Amy Winehouse!)" -- Julie Mason, Houston Chronicle Next stop: Kuwait-America Foundation's Stand for Africa gala dinner, at the residence of the ambassador of Kuwait. Pool was hustled to a holding room upstairs to watch the president's remarks on what we assume was closed-circuit TV. He apologized for being late -- explaining that Mrs. Bush was making him watch 'Father of the Bride.' He made very brief remarks on Africa and malaria, then said he wanted to get back home and finish the movie. Unclear if he meant the original version with Spencer Tracy, or the more contemporary, and to your pooler's thinking, inferior version with Steve Martin." -- Mason Quick motorcade to Reagan building for the president's speech to the US Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. It should be noted there were quite a few empty seats. Preliminaries: He rolled his Rs, he threw out some Spanish -- then said some say he needs to practice his English. He introduced a retinue of Cabinet members and said, 'This is not a Cabinet meeting.' There was a joke about the wedding -- 'la boda.' ... Why am I telling you this if the event was open press? Because your pool took attendance. How much things have changed." -- Mason "Not one iota of news. A teensy bit of color." -- Sheryl Stolberg, New York Times "The president's reaction to Spitzer, according to Perino: 'a sad situation.' She said Bush would have no further comment on the case." -- Jim Gerstenzang, Los Angeles Times "You have the transcript of VPOTUS remarks. Hard to believe, I know, but he used the almost joke again. Never saw that one coming. There was also a Saxby Chambliss hunting line." -- John D. McKinnon, The Wall Street Journal

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