Top Items:
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Troubled Year Gets Worse for the GOP — Bad news often comes in bunches, but for a Republican Party that not long ago looked ahead to an unfettered period of growth and expansion, yesterday's indictment of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) represented one of the most significant blows …
RELATED ITEMS:
Washington Post:
Attempt to Pick Successor Is Foiled — Blunt Temporarily Takes Reins as Conservatives Reject Dreier — As the legal troubles mounted for House Majority Leader Tom DeLay in recent weeks, he and House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert talked repeatedly to craft a detailed strategy for the Republican leadership …
American Spectator:
Post A Comment Below — Name: — Blog: — If temporarily deposed House Republican Leader Tom DeLay didn't like "Operation Offset" and its creators at the Republican Study Committee, led by Rep. Mike Pence, he surely hates it now. — That's because Pence and his budget-cutting plan …
Newsweek:
The 'Second' Man — The slain Abu Azzam may not have been Zarqawi's top deputy after all. Will his death have any effect on the Iraq insurgency? — Sept. 28, 2005 - U.S. intelligence officials and counterterrorism analysts are questioning whether a slain terrorist …
Discussion:
The Heretik, THE BELGRAVIA DISPATCH, The Counterterrorism Blog, No More Mister Nice Blog and Blogenlust
RELATED ITEMS:
Scott Shields / MyDD:
Media Finally Sees Through Bush's 'Number 2 Man' Myth — Ever notice how many times the Bush administration and the Pentagon tout the killing or capture of high level al Qaeda operatives? Just how many 'Number 2,' 'Number 3,' and 'Number 4' men can bin Laden and Zarqawi possibly have, anyway?
Discussion:
Presstitutes
New York Post:
THE FREEDOM CENTER: GOOD RIDDANCE — Gov. Pataki put the International Freedom Center out of its misery yesterday. Good for him. — "There remains too much opposi tion, too much controversy over the programming of the IFC, and we must move forward with our first priority — the creation of an inspiring memorial," Pataki said.
RELATED ITEMS:
Washington Times:
Gov. Blanco gets no Katrina questions — Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, blamed by the former leader of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin for many of the city's post-hurricane problems, was given no questions about her response to Hurricane Katrina …
Discussion:
The Anchoress
RELATED ITEMS:
New York Times:
Fear Exceeded Crime's Reality in New Orleans — NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 25 - After the storm came the siege. In the days after Hurricane Katrina, terror from crimes seen and unseen, real and rumored, gripped New Orleans. The fears changed troop deployments, delayed medical evacuations …
Associated Press:
Bush narrows Supreme Court list — Judges, lawyers being considered, analysts say — WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush, nearing the end of his search for a successor to retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, has whittled his list to a handful of candidates and could announce his decision by week's end.
Discussion:
King of Zembla
RELATED ITEM:
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Turks Challenge Hughes on Iraq — Envoy Faces Angry Audience of Women's Rights Activists — ISTANBUL, Sept. 28 — A group of Turkish women's rights activists confronted Undersecretary of State Karen Hughes on Wednesday with emotional and heated complaints about the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq …
The Poor Man Institute:
Republican whining about DeLay/Frist - early returns — The DeLay indictment/Frist investigation news seems to have caught the jingosphere largely off-guard, which says pretty much all that needs to be said about their grasp of Washington reality. … Not so out-of touch that they'll actually defend him …
Discussion:
Ezra Klein, TAPPED, Big Brass Blog, protein wisdom, The Washington Monthly, Pam's House Blend, QandO and The Tattered Coat
RELATED ITEM:
Juan Non-Volokh / The Volokh Conspiracy:
ARE GREAT ARTISTS RIGHT-WING? What began as a discussion of Martin Scorsese's role in a new Bob Dylan documentary evolved into a discussion of Dylan's politics and, eventually, the ideology of artistry. Sayeth Ann Althouse: … [Quote from Ann's comment at 12:23pm]
RELATED ITEM:
Michael Yon / Online Magazine:
Operation Rhma: Final Mission — Much world travel has convinced me that the "average American" is a good person. But even a good person needs information in order to act effectively on their best impulses. Oftentimes, good things do not happen simply because information does not make it to the right people.
Discussion:
Democracy Project
Barry Moody / Reuters:
Reuters says U.S. troops obstruct reporting of Iraq — LONDON, Sept 28 (Reuters) - The conduct of U.S. troops in Iraq, including increasing detention and accidental shootings of journalists, is preventing full coverage of the war reaching the American public, Reuters said on Wednesday.
Howard Fineman / MSNBC:
Why can't the Democrats capitalize? — With the White House on the ropes after Katrina, Dems waffle and wheeze — WASHINGTON - With George W. Bush's presidency mired in the muck of hurricanes and doubts about the war, you'd think Democrats would be bursting with energy, eagerly expecting to regain power.
Jesselee / The Stakeholder:
Now We Know — Now we know where most Republicans stand, including the White House and the NRCC. They care about nothing but money and power. It's not complicated. — trevino at RedState spares himself this self-condemnation: … Plenty of links in there that I didn't take.
