This Week In Pool Reports

In this week's installment, POTUS dissed Gonzales, Rice bogarts a presser and bonus points to any reader who can find a pic of a pooler in a hairnet. "Before heading to the speech site, the motorcade stopped at the Nashville Bun Company about 10:55 a.m. local time (11:55 a.m. East Coast time. Note: all times in first pool report were East Coast times). The air inside the factory was just as hot and stale as it was outdoors, as machines churned out hundreds of dough balls and turned them into buns and rolls. Your pool and other visitors were required to wear company baseball caps or hairnets. There's nothing quite like a Secret Service agent in a hairnet. POTUS opted for the baseball cap." -- Peter Baker, Washington Post "Aides at the back of the room included Rice, Hadley, Bolten and Snow. Bush smiled at the pool's attempts to question him on a variety of topics. When he saw Rice chatting with a member of the pool, he jokingly said, 'hold your own press conference later.'" -- David Jackson, USA Today "POTUS was 18 minutes late leaving the Republican senatorial fundraiser in McLean. Too busy lobbying the GOP senators in attendance on Iraq, perhaps?" -- Andrew Ward, Financial Times "The hosts of the fundraiser are Dwight Schar, chairman of NVR Homes, and his wife, Martha. No surprise, therefore, that they have a very nice house. The press vans peeled off into the driveway of a sizeable house in a affluent, leafy neighbourhood. But it seems that this is just the guest quarters." -- Ward "Plenty of hits, and errors, at the open-press White House Tee Ball game, the second of the two-game 2007 season. President Bush arrived at the makeshift playing field just after 4 pm, in short sleeve navy shirt and dark pants. He was back in the Oval Office an hour later. He acknowledged VIPs on hand with one glaring omission: Attorney General Alberto Gonzales." -- Todd J. Gillman, Dallas Morning News "The ride out was uneventful, traffic light. The motorcade passed a Mazda SUV sporting an Obama '08 bumper sticker (the only political bumper sticker seen, though there was also a white Mitsubishi with a 'baby on board' sign). Traffic was more moderate on the ride back, no political bumper sticker sightings, but a few in a crowd at 15th and E waved as the motorcade passed." -- Brendan McKenna, Dallas Morning News

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