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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 The Coburn amendments would have repealed $500,000 previously authorized for a sculpture park in Seattle, Washington …
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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.
Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:THE SENATE HAS REJECTED THE COBURN AMENDMENTS: Mark Tapscott opines:
Andrew Roth / The Club For Growth:Senator Coburn Issues a Statement
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The Blue State Conservatives
National Review:
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.
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.
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David Johnston / New York Times:Cover-Up Issue Is Seen as Focus in Leak Inquiry
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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.
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James Taranto / Opinion Journal:
Best of the Web — Adding Insult to Injury — Harriet Miers's Senate questionnaire isn't exactly getting rave reviews from the men who'll pass judgment on her Supreme Court nomination. As the San Francisco Chronicle reports: … Let this be a lesson: If you find yourself having to fill …
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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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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New York Times, QandO, PoliBlog, Patterico's Pontifications, TMH's Bacon Bits and How Appealing
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James Joyner / Outside The Beltway:Miers Asked to Provide More Detail on Questions
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ACSBlog, PoliBlog, Hugh Hewitt, The Claremont Institute and Campaign for the Supreme Court
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.
Hullabaloo:
Buying Into The Program — In a sane political world, Press The Meat this Sunday would be a very interesting show. This is because over the past couple of days it's become obvious that Karl Rove is selling the line that he found out about Plame from Libby and that Libby says that his source …
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
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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Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:
The Conservative Revolt — WHY have so many conservatives suddenly revolted against President Bush, nearly five years into his presidency? I think their split with Bush is ill advised, counterproductive, and in some ways childish. But there's no doubt it's happening and it's serious.
