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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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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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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.
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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 …
Hindrocket / Power Line:
SPECTER: CONSTITUTION MAY BE TOO COMPLICATED FOR MIERS — Well, that's not quite what he said, of course. Senator Arlen Specter actually said that the intricacies of constitutional law as developed by the last generation of Supreme Court justices might be too much for a mere corporate lawyer and White House counsel:
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:Miers And Myers — It was Full Ahead for two controversial Bush nominees.
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PrawfsBlawg
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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Steve Soto / The Left Coaster:
CBS News Forced To Back Away From Freeh's One-Sided Smear Against Clinton Tonight — During the flap over Dan Rather's botched "60 Minutes" story on Bush's TANG service and the memos used in that story, I had focused my fire on the fact that the Mighty Wurlitzer had never disproved the content of the memos …
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ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES
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, firedoglake, Needlenose, New York Times, AMERICAblog, The Stakeholder, Think Progress and Booman Tribune ~ Boo!
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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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Ron Brynaert / Why Are We Back In Iraq?:
Jeff Gannon PLAGIARIZED WSJ — Jeff Gannon never saw any freakin' internal government memo and just straight out plagiarized The Wall Street Journal when he asked Joe Wilson his infamous question. — If everyone in the blogosphere wants to keep believing otherwise and go crazy …
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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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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.
David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
The Crisis of the Bush Code — WHEN Gov. George W. Bush of Texas hit the presidential campaign trail, he seldom brought up his view of abortion. But with conservative Christian crowds, he never missed an opportunity to praise "pregnancy crisis centers." Abortion opponents …
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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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?
