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Lott: 'Not comfortable' with Miers' nomination — Miss. Senator says he'll need more information before supporting nominee — Add Senator Trent Lott (R-Miss.) to the list of Republicans not entirely pleased with President Bush's nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court.
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The Big Trunk / Power Line:
WILL VERSUS BLANKLEY VERSUS MALKIN — While we're moving on, George Will and Tony Blankley address the merits of President Bush's nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court. Will's column is frankly oppositional: "Miers is the wrong pick." Will writes:
Cillizzac / The Fix:
Miers Nomination: The Gang Meets — The bipartisan group of 14 senators that averted a showdown over President Bush's judicial nominees earlier this year is set to meet today to discuss the nomination of White House counsel Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court.
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Espionage Case Breaches the White House — Accused Marine Worked in Vice President's Office — Oct. 5, 2005 — Both the FBI and CIA are calling it the first case of espionage in the White House in modern history. — Officials tell ABC News the alleged spy worked undetected at the White House for almost three years.
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Media Matters for America:
O'Reilly calls Media Matters "assassins" and "the worst" among "most vicious" political websites — In a segment on the October 4 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor that he promoted as examining "the most vicious political websites in the country," host Bill O'Reilly named Media Matters for America …
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John / AMERICAblog:
The White House is hiding Karl Rove - they know something's coming... I just talked to a source who told me that Karl Rove has been missing from a number of recent White House presidential events - events that he has ALWAYS attended in the past. For example, Rove was absent …
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CNN:
Poll: Support for Miers not as high as that for Roberts — WASHINGTON (CNN) — Americans, particularly conservatives, are less supportive of President Bush's nominee to the Supreme Court than they initially were for his nomination of John Roberts, according to a CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll released Tuesday night.
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Mark Blumenthal / Mystery Pollster:FIRST MIERS REACTION FROM GALLUP
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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.
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.
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Michael J. Sniffen / Associated Press:
Former Bush Official Indicted in Probe — WASHINGTON — The Bush administration's former chief procurement official was indicted Wednesday by a federal grand jury on charges of making false statements and obstructing investigations into high-powered Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
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channeloklahoma.com:
Bomber's Roommate Held Briefly After Attack — NORMAN, Okla. — The Pakistani roommate of a man authorities said died when he detonated an explosive device outside a crowded football stadium was led in handcuffs from a party shortly after Saturday's explosion, the head of an Islamic student group said.
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James S. Tyree / normantranscript.com:Stadium security to be stepped up
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David R. Sands / Washington Times:
Army takes control of Iran nukes — Iran's new president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has placed the military firmly in control of his nation's nuclear program, undercutting his government's claim that the program is intended for civilian use, according to a leading opposition group.
Associated Press:
DeLay, Successor Blunt Swapped Donations — WASHINGTON - Tom DeLay deliberately raised more money than he needed to throw parties at the 2000 presidential convention, then diverted some of the excess to longtime ally Roy Blunt through a series of donations that benefited both men's causes.
John Podhoretz / The Corner on National Review Online:
IS THIS BUSH'S HIDDEN AGENDA? — A friend, one of the wisest analysts of politics I know, asks the following fascinating questions: Did the president pick Harriet Miers because she is an evangelical Christian? Is this the real meaning of the "trust me" message — and are her religious beliefs …
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 …
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The Mahablog, TAPPED, Underneath Their Robes, Preemptive Karma, Discriminations and Chris C Mooney
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 …
