1. As Anne Stanton, the rich debutante drawn by Willie‘s magnetism and turned off by Jack‘s mildness, Kate Winslet likewise eschews the streak of fine Southern hooey previously displayed by Joanne Dru, at the character‘s expense.

2. In sickening courtroom scenes described as ‘insensitive‘ by a lawyer who lost his son in the atrocity, Republicans immediately began noisy celebrations following the announcement that Sean Hooey was to be acquitted of the 1''8 bombing.

3. And, of course, Plame was fair game÷ Her identity was a tool to discredit, however obliquely, the report from her husband, Joe Wilson, that the administration‘s claim that Saddam Hussein‘s Iraq had sought to purchase uranium from Niger was a bunch of hooey.

4. Article continues No such qualms for clinically sane Melanie Phillips, thankfully, who to our huge surprise declares in the Mail that she will "stick her neck out and defy the received wisdom" to say that the current pathetic policy wobble over Iraq is "all so much hooey". She‘s such a rock, don‘t you think?

5. "One of the mythologies," Hadley said, "is that it was the vice president that somehow was pulling the strings on foreign policy in the first term and made it very ideologically driven and that somehow in the second term, the vice president‘s influence is in decline and, therefore, somehow the real Bush has come forward, and we have a more pragmatic foreign policy." "That‘s just hooey –– it‘s just hooey," the ever–polite Hadley concluded, with the strongest language he would muster for print. (Bolten chuckled and suggested earthier epithets, such as "bunk.") But at the same time, Bolten said that one of his goals when he took over as chief of staff in the spring of 2006 was to put Bush back at the center of decision–making.