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The Miers Support Team: Gloomy and Demoralized — Strategists working with the White House in support of the Supreme Court nomination of Harriet Miers are becoming increasingly demoralized and pessimistic about the nomination's prospects on Capitol Hill in the wake of Miers's meetings with several Republican and Democratic senators.
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Patterico / Patterico's Pontifications:
Out on the Ledge — If you need me this morning, I'll be out on the window ledge. Because it is becoming clearer and clearer that we are headed towards the confirmation of a Supreme Court justice who has no idea what the Constitution says. — The Washington Post buries the lede in this story about Harriet Miers.
James Joyner / Outside The Beltway:
Miers Questionnaire, Take II — In a lengthy post early this morning, I argued that, although I still think Harriet Miers unqualified for the Supreme Court, the flap over her answers to the Senate questionnaire was "silly." — Now that I have seen the questionnaire (in PDF format …
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Chicago Sun Times, New York Times, QandO, PoliBlog, Patterico's Pontifications and TMH's Bacon Bits
Washington Post:
Senators Assail Miers's Replies, Ask for Details — The top two members of the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday complained about the written responses they received from Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers this week, and warned her to expect tough questions from Republicans and Democrats alike …
James Joyner / Outside The Beltway:Miers Asked to Provide More Detail on Questions
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PoliBlog, ACSBlog, The Claremont Institute, Hugh Hewitt and Campaign for the Supreme Court
Mark Tapscott / tapscottscopydesk.blogspot.com:
Senate Overwhelmingly Rejects Three Coburn Anti-Pork Amendments — The U.S. Senate voted 86-13 against three anti-pork spending amendments offered by Sen. Tom Coburn, R-OK. The Coburn amendments would have repealed $500,000 previously authorized for a sculpture park in Seattle, Washington …
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RedState.org, The Corner on National …, The Club For Growth and Amy Ridenour's National …
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Daily Kos:
Coburn Amendment, on the floor — The Club for Growth blog is tracking the debate over the Coburn amendment that would cancel the Bridge to Nowhere and Don Young Way and use that $454 million for New Orleans reconstruction. — It's a pretty heated debate. Sen. Ted Stevens has threatened to resign if the amendment passes.
Radio Blogger:Sen. Tom Coburn bravely representing the porkbusters on the Senate floor today.
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Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:THE SENATE HAS REJECTED THE COBURN AMENDMENTS: Mark Tapscott opines:
Murray Waas / nationaljournal.com:
Secret Service Records Prompted Key Miller Testimony — New York Times reporter Judith Miller told the federal grand jury in the CIA leak case that she might have met with I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby on June 23, 2003 only after prosecutors showed her Secret Service logs that indicated she and Libby …
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Right Wing Nut House, AMERICAblog, The Moderate Voice, Yellow Dog Blog, TalkLeft, The Huffington Post and firedoglake
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Hope Yen / Associated Press:
FEMA Official Says Boss Ignored Warnings — WASHINGTON - Federal Emergency Management Agency officials did not respond to repeated warnings about deteriorating conditions in New Orleans and the dire need for help as Hurricane Katrina struck, the first FEMA official to arrive conceded Thursday.
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USA Today:
College gender gap widens: 57% are women — In May, the Minnesota Office of Higher Education posted the inevitable culmination of a trend: Last year for the first time, women earned more than half the degrees granted statewide in every category, be it associate, bachelor, master, doctoral or professional.
Michael Graczyk / Associated Press:
DeLay Appears in Houston for Booking — HOUSTON - Rep. Tom DeLay turned himself Thursday in at the Harris County sheriff's office, where he was photographed, fingerprinted and released on bond on state conspiracy and money laundering charges. — "He posted $10,000 bond and they have left …
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American Prospect:
The Incompetence Dodge — From our November issue: The liberal hawks now say the idea of the war wasn't bad, just its execution. This saves face — and serves a more dangerous function. — Victory, as John F. Kennedy observed, has a thousand fathers, while defeat is an orphan.
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Bradford Plumer, Hullabaloo, Eschaton, Crooked Timber, The American Scene, Ezra Klein and The Washington Monthly
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Didn't Get The Memo (Or Didn't Want To) — Some basic facts about the Plame investigation are beginning to penetrate the consciousness of members of the main stream media, although no observer is at risk of being blinded by the spectacle of lightbulbs going off over the heads of the various reporters.
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George F. Will / Washington Post:
A Right Turn Back to Making Cars — General Motors took an interesting turn on Monday. It is going back into the automobile business. — Granted, GM has always been in that industry, but it has also become the nation's largest private purchaser of health care. This supposedly secondary role has become primary.
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Associated Press:
Young introduces bill for disaster assistance bonds — FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) - The federal government could sell bonds to cover the cost of disaster recoveries under legislation introduced by U.S. Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska. — Young introduced the bill Tuesday and spoke in favor it on the floor of the House of Representatives.
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Eli Lake / New York Sun:
Beware Your Wish — The big irony to savor at the center of the Valerie Plame case is that everything everyone thinks they know about Patrick Fitzgerald's leak investigation has been leaked. Mr. Fitzgerald has not held a press conference explaining what criminal counts, if any, he will bring.
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Shock Jock's Audience Is Beating Him to the Door — The Howard Stern exodus has begun. Unfortunately for Stern, it's his audience that's leaving, not him. — The shock jock won't jump to satellite radio until January, but in the meantime, his listeners in the Washington area seem to be heading for the exits.
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PostWatch, Hugh Hewitt, Media Blog on National …, Wonkette, mediabistro, Don Surber and The Politburo Diktat
Steve Chapman / realclearpolitics.com:
Restoring Democracy to Our Elections — The U.S Constitution provides life tenure for federal judges, which means they depart only if they die or choose to leave. It does not provide life tenure for members of Congress or state legislators, but politicians have gone a long way toward correcting that oversight.
