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George F. Will / Washington Post:
Can This Nomination Be Justified?  —  Senators beginning what ought to be a protracted and exacting scrutiny of Harriet Miers should be guided by three rules.  First, it is not important that she be confirmed.  Second, it might be very important that she not be.
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Harold Meyerson / Washington Post:
The Right's Dissed Intellectuals  —  You could cut the disappointment with a knife.  "This is the moment for which the conservative legal movement has been waiting for two decades," David Frum, the right-wing activist and former Bush speechwriter, wrote on his blog a few moments …
Discussion: TAPPED and Preemptive Karma
Washington Post:
Strong Grounding in the Church Could Be a Clue to Miers's Priorities  —  One evening in the 1980s, several years after Harriet Miers dedicated her life to Jesus Christ, she attended a lecture at her Dallas evangelical church with Nathan Hecht, a colleague at her law firm and her on-again, off-again boyfriend.
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Bush Plays Delicate Defense Game As Many Conservatives Rebel  —  The White House is at war.  —  With some Republicans.  —  President George Bush is now playing defense in a battle no one would have predicted he would have to wage: a battle to convince many in his own party …
Mark Blumenthal / Mystery Pollster:
FIRST MIERS REACTION FROM GALLUP  —  This morning brings a new Gallup/CNN/USAToday poll conducted Monday and Tuesday evenings (10/3-4) with reaction to the Harriet Miers nomination.  Both the USAToday and CNN stories emphasize that Americans are less enthusiastic about Miers …
Steve Bainbridge / ProfessorBainbridge.com:
The Case Against Harriet Miers: The Baseball Analogy  —  The transcript of my interview yesterday on the Hugh Hewitt show is now up at Radioblogger.  By analogy to that great Congressional tradition, I want to use this post to revise and extend my remarks.  In particular, I want to pick up on the baseball analogy.
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Erin Neff / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Son of former president to challenge Ensign in 2006  —  Jack Carter, the son of former President Carter, said Tuesday he plans to run against John Ensign for the U.S. Senate next year.  —  Carter, 58, and his wife, Elizabeth, have lived in Las Vegas since 2003, operating the investment consulting firm Carter Global.
Qassim Abdul-Zahra / Associated Press:
Sunnis Drop Threat to Boycott Referendum  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq's parliament voted Wednesday to reverse last-minute changes to rules for next week's referendum on a new constitution after the United Nations said they were unfair.  Sunni Arabs responded by dropping their threat to boycott …
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Andrew Quinn / Washington Times:
Iraqi charter gains wide backing
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Chris Bowers / MyDD:
Democrats Party Like It's 2002  —  There is something missing from Rahm Emanuel's discussion on Meet the Press about the Democratic agenda: … Hmmm.  The word "Iraq" doesn't appear anywhere in the Democratic agenda.  This is interesting since, major occasional news events not withstanding …
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Bob Brigham / Swing State Project:   DCCC Incumbent Protection Message on Iraq
Christopher Hitchens / Slate:
Why Ask Why?  —  Terrorist attacks aren't caused by any policy except that of the bombers themselves.  —  The return of murderous nihilism to Bali is highly instructive.  It shows, first, that the fanatics of Islamism don't know how to stop.  And it also shows that they never learn.
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Tim B. / Tim Blair:
WHY-NERS  —  Christopher Hitchens—who notes that …
Discussion: cut on the bias
Laylan Copelin / statesman.com:
Prosecutor reveals third grand jury had refused DeLay indictment  —  Newly impaneled grand jury returned money-laundering charge within hours  —  A Travis County grand jury last week refused to indict former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay as prosecutors raced to salvage their felony case against the Sugar Land Republican.
Discussion: Off the Kuff and Mark in Mexico
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Sir Humphrey's:
AP and Reuters photographer Bilal Hussein colludes with insurgents  —  This is both disgusting and absurd.  I was flicking through a Yahoo Photos thread called "US Military" when I came across six photos of the same small group of 'insurgents' posing for the photographer.
Shailagh Murray / Washington Post:
Storms Show A System Out Of Balance  —  GOP Congress Has Reduced Usual Diet of Agency Oversight  —  Four hurricanes had hit Florida in 2004, and the evidence was overwhelming that the Federal Emergency Management Agency had totally botched its response.  Some of the hardest-hit counties …
Discussion: Angry Bear and The Agonist
Washington Post:
News of Pandemonium May Have Slowed Aid  —  Unsubstantiated Reports of Violence Were Confirmed by Some Officials, Spread by News Media  —  Five weeks after Hurricane Katrina laid waste to New Orleans, some local, state and federal officials have come to believe that exaggerations of mayhem …
Los Angeles Times:
Bush Says Social Security Overhaul Is Stalled  —  He cites a lack of public support for his plan.  More pressing now is the hurricane recovery.  —  WASHINGTON — President Bush acknowledged Tuesday for the first time that his plan to restructure Social Security, once his top second-term domestic priority …
Discussion: The Left Coaster
BBC:
Dane fights for state-funded sex  —  A disabled Danish man is fighting for the state to pay for him to have a prostitute visit him at home.  —  Torben Hansen, who has cerebral palsy, which severely affects his speech and mobility, believes his local authority should pay the extra charge …
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