An early April Fool's from ABC News or what?

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238

* to fire Rummy, raise taxes, pull 80% of troops out of Iraq? WTF?

Wasn't it Monday night that Hart was on The Colbert Report? I thought he was just about the most humorless guest Stephen has ever had to endure, and I was surprised. Now it makes sense, if this is true.

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Dana Hill of ABC News writes, "Mr. Bush's new spokesman will be Mike McCurry, who performed the same job for President Clinton and is close to White Houses Communications Director Nicolle Wallace." LINK

And the Wall Street Journal's Al Hunt scoops this, "Bush has told friends that Bolten's first assignment will be to come up with an exit strategy for getting 80% of American troops out of Iraq by September 1." LINK

The major shake-up and its changes come just in time for the White House, since House and Senate Democrats target what they call President Bush's "dangerous incompetence" on security issues while proposing what they call a "tough and smart" alternative at a 1:00 pm ET press conference at Union Station in Washington, DC.

More:
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238

And none of the links in the article work.

Someone got their calendar mixed up. Freaky.

Also, when I went to NYT & searched "Rick Berke" I got 0 results.

what I want to know.

somebody is going to have explain to me why any Democrat (outside of Lieberman or Zell Miller) would even toy with the idea of joining this gang of thugs.