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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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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:
hughhewitt.com:
What Do The Critics of the Miers Nomination Want? — This is a long post, designed to reply to some of the major arguments advanced against Harriet Miers by conservative critics. Ed Morrissey has doen a fine job of reviewing last week's intra-conseravtive battles, though overstating my role in it …
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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The Reaction, New York Times, AMERICAblog, The Stakeholder, Booman Tribune ~ Boo! and Think Progress
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:Judy Remembers! — Per Reuters, embattled Times reporter Judith Miller …
Swopa / Needlenose:Another incriminating profession of innocence from Karl Rove's attorney
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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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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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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 …
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?
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The Huffington Post
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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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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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William Shawcross / Los Angeles Times:
Peace is not the answer — Calls to end Iraq's bloodshed are hardly noble when those who would triumph slaughter teachers as children weep. — IT SEEMS UNLIKELY that many of the so-called peace marchers who trooped through Washington and London two weekends back listened on Thursday …
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Power Line
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 …
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.
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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