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CBS News:
Poll: Bush Ratings Hit New Low — (CBS) This CBS News Poll finds an American public increasingly pessimistic about the economy, the war in Iraq, the overall direction of the country, and the President. Americans' outlook for the economy is the worst it has been in four years.
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Washington Post:
Rove to Testify Again in Grand Jury's CIA Leak Probe — Prosecutor's Warning That Bush Adviser Could Be Indicted Suggests New Information May Have Emerged — White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove will again testify to a grand jury that is in the final stages of investigating whether …
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Los Angeles Times:
Rove to Testify Again in CIA Leak Case — Federal prosecutors warn they cannot guarantee the presidential adviser won't be indicted. — WASHINGTON — Presidential adviser Karl Rove has agreed to give last-minute testimony to a grand jury in the ongoing investigation into the leak of a covert CIA agent's identity.
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:The crafty ways of our man, Robert "Gold Bars" Luskin, lawyer for tadpole-on-deck Karl Rove.
Murray Waas / whatever already!:Rove before grand jury in the morning
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David Corn, firedoglake, Associated Press, TalkLeft, War and Piece, Viking Pundit and Oliver Willis
BBC:
White House denies Bush God claim — The White House has dismissed as "absurd" allegations made in a BBC TV series that President Bush claimed God told him to invade Iraq. — "He's never made such comments," White House spokesman Scott McClellan said. — The comments were attributed …
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Agence France Presse, Loaded Mouth, Gateway Pundit, In the Bullpen, Brainster's Blog and King of Zembla
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Opinions:
Withdraw This Nominee — When in 1962 Edward Moore Kennedy ran for his brother's seat in the Senate, his opponent famously said that if Kennedy's name had been Edward Moore, his candidacy would have been a joke. If Harriet Miers were not a crony of the president of the United States …
ABCNEWS:
Police Investigate New York Subway Terror Threat — Security to be Increased Following Possible Plot Information — Oct. 6, 2005 — The New York Police Department is investigating what it deems a credible tip that 19 operatives have been deployed to the city to place bombs in the subway …
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Robin Wright / Washington Post:
U.S. Obtains Treatise By Bin Laden Deputy — The United States has obtained a letter from Osama bin Laden's deputy to the leader of Iraq's insurgency that outlines a long-term strategic vision for a global jihad, with the next phase of the war to be taken into Egypt, Syria and Lebanon, according to U.S. officials.
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Kelley Shannon / Associated Press:
DeLay conspiracy charge little used part of state law — AUSTIN — A little-used Texas law could decide the future of U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay, charged with conspiracy and money laundering in an alleged campaign finance scheme. — Grand jurors looking into 2002 campaign contributions indicted DeLay …
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Madeleine Begun Kane …
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R. Jeffrey Smith / Washington Post:
DeLay Meeting, RNC Actions Coincided — Financial Transactions Began on Day Texan Met With Fundraiser — Former House majority leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) met for at least 30 minutes with the top fundraiser of his Texas political action committee on Oct. 2, 2002, the same …
Thomas B. Edsall / Washington Post:
Report Warns Democrats Not to Tilt Too Far Left — The liberals' hope that Democrats can win back the presidency by drawing sharp ideological contrasts and energizing the partisan base is a fantasy that could cripple the party's efforts to return to power, according to a new study by two prominent Democratic analysts.
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Captain's Quarters, The Washington Monthly, Insults Unpunished, Betsy's Page, TalkLeft and Mister Snitch!
Doug Mellgren / Associated Press:
IAEA, ElBaradei Share Nobel Peace Prize — OSLO, Norway - Mohamed ElBaradei and the International Atomic Energy Agency that he heads won the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for their efforts to stop the spread of nuclear weapons. — ElBaradei, a 63-year-old lawyer from Egypt …
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Outside The Beltway
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Right Sees Miers as Threat to a Dream — If there has been a unifying cause in American conservatism over the past three decades, it has been a passionate desire to change the Supreme Court. When there were arguments over tax cuts and deficits, when libertarians clashed with religious conservatives …
Washington Post:
Miers Makes Rounds On Hill — Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers left a mixed impression in one-on-one meetings yesterday with Senate Judiciary Committee members, raising the stakes for her upcoming confirmation hearing as the White House scrambled to defend Miers from a barrage of criticism from the right.
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
The State of the Union Between the Right and the White House Turns Frosty — Yesterday's tribute by President Bush to William F. Buckley and National Review was arranged in happier times, when the Republican president and the right wing were still in a state of connubial bliss.
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Hugh Hewitt
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Stephen Farrell / Times of London:
No dancing and no gays if Hamas gets its way — A VISION of an Islamic society that bans mixed dancing and sternly disapproves of homosexuality has been given by Mahmoud Zahar, the most senior leader of Hamas in Gaza. — After controversies when a Hamas-led council halted a dance festival …
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GOP Bloggers
Media Matters for America:
Limbaugh read note from his "mistress in Georgia" (aka CNN's Daryn Kagan?): Bush's speech was "great," "sounds like you giving this speech" — On the October 6 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Rush Limbaugh read a "note" that, he said, came from his "mistress in Georgia …
