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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.
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Jim Abrams / Associated Press:
Senate Comes to Halt in Battle of Bridges — WASHINGTON - In a clash of generations and political philosophy, 37-year Senate veteran Ted Stevens of Alaska told a freshman colleague that he would resign and "be taken out of here on a stretcher" if the Senate killed funding for two Alaskan bridges.
Mark Tapscott / tapscottscopydesk.blogspot.com:Senate Overwhelmingly Rejects Three Coburn Anti-Pork Amendments
Andrew Roth / The Club For Growth:Senator Coburn Issues a Statement
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The Blue State Conservatives
Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:THE SENATE HAS REJECTED THE COBURN AMENDMENTS: Mark Tapscott opines:
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.
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Charles Babington / Washington Post:
After the Home Run, a White House Balk? — Handling of Miers Nomination Cannot Stand Up to Ease of Roberts Approval — Two months after engineering a nearly flawless confirmation process for Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., the Bush administration's bid to add Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court …
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James Joyner / Outside The Beltway:Miers Asked to Provide More Detail on Questions
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The Moderate Voice, The Carpetbagger Report, Wonkette, ACSBlog, Campaign for the Supreme Court and PoliBlog
David Johnston / New York Times:
Cover-Up Issue Is Seen as Focus in Leak Inquiry — WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 - As he weighs whether to bring criminal charges in the C.I.A. leak case, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, the special counsel, is focusing on whether Karl Rove, the senior White House adviser, and I. Lewis Libby Jr. …
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JustOneMinute, TalkLeft, Hullabaloo, The Huffington Post, QandO, Wall Street Journal, Mathew Gross, The Left Coaster and Decision '08
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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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Billmon, Associated Press, AMERICAblog, TalkLeft, The Moderate Voice and Right Wing Nut House
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Warren Hoge / New York Times:
Syria Involved in Killing Lebanon's Ex-Premier, U.N. Report Says — UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 20 - The assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri of Lebanon was a carefully planned terrorist act organized by Syrian and Lebanese intelligence services, according to a United Nations report made public this evening.
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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 …
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.
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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Crooks and Liars:
Exclusive John Amato interviews Lawrence O'Donnell — Exclusive: John Amato interviews Lawrence O'Donnell — Mr. O'Donnell was the first person to say that Karl Rove was Matt Cooper's source and he was kind enough to come on the blog to do an interview. He was very revealing to C&L …
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Hindrocket / Power Line:
NOT AS DUMB AS IT SOUNDED — Several pundits whom we respect, including Patterico and Michelle Malkin, were apoplectic today over one aspect of the questionnaire Harriet Miers filled out for the Senate Judiciary Committee. This was the offending paragraph; it was part of Miers's recounting …
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Right Wing News, Captain's Quarters, Discriminations, The Claremont Institute and Ace of Spades HQ
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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Laurie Kellman / Associated Press:
DeLay Smile May Foil Democrat Campaign Ads — WASHINGTON — Why is Tom DeLay smiling? After all, he's been indicted. Forced out of his job as House majority leader. And called into court for fingerprinting and a mugshot like a common criminal. — Answer: A photo of DeLay grinning …
Steve Bainbridge / ProfessorBainbridge.com:
Limbaugh Responds — David Limbaugh has devoted an entire Washington Times column to responding to two of my blog posts: The SCOTUS is Not a Patronage Appointment and Limbaugh's Wrong Again. (Heh.) In tone, Mr. Limbaugh's more temperate than I was in my posts, so I'll try to respond in kind.
