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XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX SUN JULY 31, 2005 19:44:05 ET XXXXX HELEN THOMAS ANGRY AFTER 'KILL SELF' OVER CHENEY COMMENTS PUBLISHED White House press doyenne Helen Thomas is plenty peeved at her longtime friend Albert Eisele, editor of THE HILL newspaper in Washington, D.C. In a column this week headlined "Reporter: Cheney's Not Presidential Material," Eisele quoted Thomas as saying "The day Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I'll kill myself. All we need is one more liar." Thomas also said: "I think he'd like to run, but it would be a sad day for the country if...

A group of Florida Democrats shot themselves in the collective foot yesterday by saying they should put Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld "up against a wall" and "pull the trigger." In a paid newspaper advertisement, the St. Petersburg Democratic Club also urged voters to send campaign contributions to presidential candidate John Kerry and "get rid of the whole Bush Bunch!" "Then there's Rumsfeld who said of Iraq, 'We have our good days and our bad days,'" the ad states. "We should put this S.O.B. up against a wall and say, 'This is one of our bad days,' and pull the trigger."...