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Steve Bainbridge / ProfessorBainbridge.com:
Liveblogging the Ken Mehlman Conference Call — I've been invited to participate in a conference call with RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman and bloggers re the Harriet Miers nomination. I'll be live blogging as we go along. I'm not a stenographer, so this will be paraphrases, but I'll do my best.
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Mark / Decision '08:
Blogger Conference Call, Ken Mehlman, RNC Chairman — I had the good fortune today to participate in a conference call with the great Ken Mehlman, RNC Chairman, regarding the Harriet Miers nomination. Here are some quick highlights, and I'll conclude with some final thoughts.
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Captain's Quarters, The Buzz on National …, The Political Teen, Blogs for Bush and Instapundit.com
RedState.org:
A Boondoggle — "If we accept that these women backed out, we must conclude that they were not up to it, they were not qualified, or the Republicans gave them no confidence of standing behind them. " — A Boondoggle — By: Erick · Section: SCOTUS — I listened in on the RNC conference call with bloggers.
Lorie Byrd / PoliPundit.com:Philosophy And Character — I sat in on a blogger conference call …
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The American Thinker
John Cole / Balloon Juice:
A Religious Test — Via Joe Gandelman, this story which will certainly change the dynamics of the Miers nomination: … While Bush and company may think this is a clever way to reassure the base that Miers will 'vote the right way' on Roe and other social issues, this is a disastrous calculation, as well as patently offensive.
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Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:Bush Does More Than Wink: Says He Picked Miers Partly For Her Religion
Mark Murray / MSNBC:
Bush approval dips below 40 percent — NBC-WSJ poll shows only 28 percent believe U.S. headed in right direction — WASHINGTON - It has been weeks since Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast; since gas prices began spiking to record highs; and since Cindy Sheehan …
centcom.mil:
What Extremists Are Saying — We note seven critical themes from the Zawahiri-Zarqawi letter. The first four confirm al-Qaida's long-term strategy and core beliefs; the latter three reflect new information about how senior al-Qaida leader Zawahiri views developments in Iraq - and elsewhere - turning against them.
Mattias Karen / Associated Press:
Gore: I Don't Plan to Run for President — STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Former Vice President Al Gore said Wednesday he had no intention of ever running for president again, but he said the United States would be "a different country" if he had won the 2000 election, launching into a scathing attack of the Bush administration.
Associated Press:
Miller testified again before grand jury — New York Times reporter disclosed conversation with second source — WASHINGTON (AP) — New York Times reporter Judith Miller on Wednesday gave prosecutors details of a previously undisclosed conversation she had with Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff …
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Howard Fineman / MSNBC:
The conservative crack up — The neocons develop an exit strategy — a political one — WASHINGTON - President George W. Bush may have no military exit strategy for Iraq, but the "neocons" who convinced him to go to war there have developed one of their own — a political one: Blame the Administration.
Greyhawk / Mudville Gazette:
OPEN POST — No picture, just a few words. — The purpose of the Open Post is (hopefully) obvious. Those with something to say can link their blogs here and those readers who are interested can follow those links to the source. This whole inter-linking thing is what the blogosphere is all about.
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Associated Press:
Landmark deal reached on Iraqi constitution — Parliament gains Sunni support days before referendum — An Iraqi man reads a newspaper carrying pro-constitution advertisements in Baghdad on Wednesday. In a special session, Iraq's parliament won Sunni support on the draft constitution.
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Light Seeking Light
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Washington Post:
SEC Issues Subpoena To Frist, Sources Say — Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) has been subpoenaed to turn over personal records and documents as federal authorities step up a probe of his July sales of HCA Inc. stock, according to sources familiar with the investigation.
USA Today:
CIA review faults prewar plans — WASHINGTON — A newly released report published by the CIA rebukes the Bush administration for not paying enough attention to prewar intelligence that predicted the factional rivalries now threatening to split Iraq. — Policymakers worried more about making …
The Nation:
MORTON MINTZ — Senate Judiciary Committee members have the opportunity to ask Harriet Miers, President Bush's nominee to succeed Associate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, certain bedrock but nervous-making questions that they did not ask—or were perhaps too timid to ask …
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Dr. Rusty Shackleford / The Jawa Report v3.0 Beta:
Syrian Minister 'Commits Suicide', Foul Play Suspected — Syria's Interior Minister has reportedly 'committed suicide', Syrian state controlled media reports today. The story is fishy enough that many mainstream news outlets are making sure to put quotes around "committed suicide".
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John Fund / Opinion Journal:
How She Slipped Through — Harriet Miers's nomination resulted from a failed vetting process. — "There's a standard vetting process that we go through with all nominees." —White House spokesman Scott McClellan — "The president is very, very confident in his judgments about people, and he likes to reward loyalty."
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The Moderate Voice
Stars & Stripes:
Memories strong five years after Cole blast — Al-Qaida attack killed 17 sailors, sparked better deterrence in Navy — ARLINGTON, Va. — Command Master Chief James Parlier was forced to decide to let a sailor die. — It was Oct. 12, 2000, he said, aboard the USS Cole.
