This Week In Pool Reports

Mixed emotions this week in the pool between the news of Tony Snow and Wednesday night's festivities. FLOTUS makes a fashion faux pas and John Boehner has a little trouble with the letter "G". "FLOTUS wore a shimmering purple/green dress -- which the pool will bet dollars-to-doughnuts is the same dress she wore to last year's Library of Congress National Book Festival gala (which just so happens to be the last time this pooler was pool for a black tie event.) Thankfully, no other attendees were also wearing it." -- Ian Bishop, New York Post "As the First Couple waited off stage during the pre-dinner mingling period, DNC chief Howard Dean chatted away with folks. GOP co-boss Mel Martinez, less than 20 feet away, stood alone behind his chair at table #95, nursing a glass of red wine. 'It's been a long day,' Martinez quipped. Ten minutes later they were sitting together at the same table, separated by Tim Russert." -- Bishop "President Bush said he got a call from Tony Snow, 51, who was resting at the hospital. POTUS was informed that Snow's cancer had returned. 'He told me that when they went in and operated on him they found cancer. It's a recurrence of the cancer that he thought that he had successfully dealt with in the past. His attitude is, one, that he is not going to let this whip him, and he's upbeat. My attitude is, is what we need to pray for him, and for his family,' Bush said, adding that he's looking forward to his spokesman returning to the White House after he rebounds." -- Kenneth R. Bazinet, Daily News "Mystery of the day: What WERE they talking about?? Bush and House speaker Nancy Pelosi engaged in a lengthy -- about 15 minutes -- and animated conversation at the outset of the ceremony, before the speechifying had begun, as the airmen filed into the Rotunda. He arched his eyebrows at times; she gesticulated. They leaned toward one another, then back, laughing at times, appearing serious at others. Much comment in the press corps about whether they were cutting a deal, or arguing over, the Iraq supplemental." -- Sheryl Stolberg, New York Times "John Boehner, the House Republican leader, mispronounced Tuskegee throughout his speech, creating some awkward tension in the audience. He said Tuskee-gee, with a soft G, as in gee whiz. People tittered, but the full extent of the embarrassment did not become clear until Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, rose to follow him. McConnell stood up and quickly pronounced Tuskegee correctly, and with great emphasis, drawing a huge cheer from the crowd." -- Stolberg

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