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Edward Morrissey / Washington Post:
How Harriet Unleashed a Storm on the Right — Well, he's finally done it. By nominating White House lawyer Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court, George Bush has managed to accomplish what Al Gore, John Kerry, Tom Daschle and any number of Democratic heavyweights have been unable to do: He has cracked the Republican monolith.
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New York Times:
Bush Works to Reassure G.O.P. Over Nominee for Supreme Court — WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 - After a blistering week, the White House is scrambling to control a conservative uprising over the nomination of Harriet E. Miers to the Supreme Court, with President Bush pitching his choice directly …
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Hope Yen / Associated Press:
Specter to Question Miers' Qualifications — WASHINGTON - The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said Sunday he plans to vigorously question Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers about her qualifications because she has not proved to him she can handle the weighty issues that come before the high court.
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:Miers And Myers — It was Full Ahead for two controversial Bush nominees.
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PrawfsBlawg
Somini Sengupta / New York Times:
Earthquake's Toll Sure to Rise; Aftershocks Are Feared — ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Sunday, Oct. 9 - A powerful earthquake centered in the Hindu Kush mountains of Pakistan on Saturday morning sent tremors across South Asia, killing more than 18,000 people, including at least 1,600 in remote northern Pakistan …
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Michael Isikoff / Newsweek:
CIA Leak: Karl Rove and the Case of the Missing E-mail — Oct. 17, 2005 issue - The White House's handling of a potentially crucial e-mail sent by senior aide Karl Rove two years ago set off a chain of events that has led special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald to summon Rove for a fourth grand jury appearance this week.
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Donklephant, Needlenose, firedoglake, New York Times, AMERICAblog, The Stakeholder, Think Progress and Booman Tribune ~ Boo!
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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
'60 Minutes' to Include Clinton Camp's Denial of Freeh's Accusations — Under strong pressure from former president Bill Clinton's advisers, CBS's "60 Minutes" has agreed to read a statement denying an explosive charge being made on tonight's program by former FBI director Louis J. Freeh.
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Opinion Journal:
The World Wide Web (of Bureaucrats?) — Keep your U.N. off my Internet. — Kofi Annan, Coming to a Computer Near You! The Internet's long run as a global cyberzone of freedom—where governments take a "hands off" approach—is in jeopardy. Preparing for next month's U.N.-sponsored World Summit …
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Roger L. Simon / Mystery Novelist and Screenwriter:
Not My Internet! — Given what I am doing, I am barely off line these days (except when I sleep, and even then my dreams are sometimes wired), so I have been feeling on "en vacance" this weekend in the Santa Ynez Valley, only able to get online in spare moments when I can slip off to the WiFi …
Greg Mitchell / Editor and Publisher:
The Case of the Missing Notebook — The latest twist in the Plame Affair only deepens the mystery: What's in the suddenly uncovered notebook that documents the previously unknown Judith Miller/Scooter Libby chat of June 25, 2003? Who told the prosecutor about it? And why, exactly, does he want to talk to Miller again?
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The Left Coaster:
Treasongate and Jeff Gannon - Redux — UPDATE: Ron Brynaert at Why Are We Back in Iraq (who has done some exceptional research on Gannon's serial plagiarism in the past) offers a compelling argument that Gannon actually just plagiarized from the WSJ when he asked Mr. Wilson this question.
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The Sideshow:
The trouble with "moderate" Dems — I like Kevin Drum, I really do, but I was reading this post and this one and wondering why he has such tolerance for "centrist" analysis of why the Democratic Party keeps losing: … See, Kevin knows there's something wrong with this …
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The Washington Monthly
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New York Times:
Foe of Abortion, Senator Is Cool to Court Choice — WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 - Amid uproar among conservatives over the candidacy of Harriet E. Miers for the Supreme Court, one of the most ardent abortion opponents in the Senate said Thursday that Ms. Miers had not persuaded him to vote to confirm her.
Chicago Tribune:
Conservatives say Democrats cowed Bush into weak court choice — WASHINGTON — When Senate Democrats announced after a tense closed-door meeting in 2003 that they would mount a historic filibuster against one of President Bush's leading judicial nominees, some in the party were openly critical.
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Patterico's Pontifications
Norm / normblog:
Shock and mock — Whether George Bush actually said what he was reported on the front page of the Guardian as having said seems to be in some doubt now. But, whatever the case, there it was on the front page - as also of the Independent - and yesterday the Guardian readership was following up.
MSNBC:
Transcript for October 9 — MR. TIM RUSSERT: Our issues this Sunday... (Videotape): — PRES. GEORGE W. BUSH: And I'm nominating Harriet Ellen Miers. — MR. RUSSERT: ...the president nominates his own counsel to the Supreme Court. Why have so many conservatives spoken out against her?
