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Bush expected to name Bernanke next Fed chief — Administration official says announcement set for 1 p.m. ET — President Bush is poised to name Ben Bernanke, chairman of his Council of Economic Advisers, to succeed Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, NBC News and Reuters reported Monday.
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Bernanke's the man — President Bush's nominee to succeed Greenspan is expected to be chief economic adviser. — NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - President Bush was expected to announce Monday that he has picked top economic adviser Ben Bernanke to succeed Alan Greenspan as Federal Reserve Chairman …
Tyler Cowen / Marginal Revolution:Ben Bernanke — The new Fed nominee is Ben Bernanke …
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Larry Kudlow / The Corner on National Review Online:BERNANKE WORKS — CEA chair and former Fed governor Ben Bernanke …
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Michelle Malkin:
SEN. HUTCHISON'S BLUNDER — The Left had a field day over Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison's remarks on NBC's Meet the Press this morning in which she downplayed possible perjury and obstruction of justice indictments this week in the Rove/Plame/Miller/Libby/God-knows-who- else leak case.
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New York Times:
Republicans Testing Ways to Blunt Leak Charges — WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 - With a decision expected this week on possible indictments in the C.I.A. leak case, allies of the White House suggested Sunday that they intended to pursue a strategy of attacking any criminal charges as a disagreement …
Washington Post:Inquiry as Exacting As Special Counsel Is
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John Hawkins / Right Wing News:Let The Chips Fall Where They May In The Plamegate Investigation
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Thomas M. DeFrank / NY Daily News:
Bushies feeling the boss' wrath — Prez's anger growing in hard times - pals — WASHINGTON - Facing the darkest days of his presidency, President Bush is frustrated, sometimes angry and even bitter, his associates say. — With a seemingly uncontrollable insurgency in Iraq …
John Fund / Opinion Journal:
What Went Wrong — Lessons the White House should learn from the Miers debacle. — President Bush has returned from a weekend in Camp David, where much of the discussion centered on the beleaguered nomination of Harriet Miers. While the president is determined to press forward, the prognosis he received was grim.
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Robert H. Reid / Associated Press:
Journalists' Hotel in Baghdad Attacked — BAGHDAD, Iraq - Three enormous bombs, including a cement-mixing truck packed with explosives, blew up near an Iraqi police post outside the Palestine Hotel — home to many foreign journalists in Iraq. Iraqi officials said 17 people were killed.
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Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
Protecting the Presidential Seal. No Joke. — You might have thought that the White House had enough on its plate late last month, what with its search for a new Supreme Court nominee, the continuing war in Iraq and the C.I.A. leak investigation. But it found time to add another item to its agenda …
Martin Walker / UPI:
Walker's World: Bush at bay — WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 (UPI) — The CIA leak inquiry that threatens senior White House aides has now widened to include the forgery of documents on African uranium that started the investigation, according to NAT0 intelligence sources.
Bradley Graham / Washington Post:
Enemy Body Counts Revived — U.S. Is Citing Tolls to Show Success in Iraq — Eager to demonstrate success in Iraq, the U.S. military has abandoned its previous refusal to publicize enemy body counts and now cites such numbers periodically to show the impact of some counterinsurgency operations.
Jeffrey H. Birnbaum / Washington Post:
Letters Show Frist Notified Of Stocks in 'Blind' Trusts — Documents Contradict Comments on Holdings — Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) was given considerable information about his stake in his family's hospital company, according to records that are at odds with his past statements …
Kevin / Louisiana Libertarian:
Carnival of the RINOs (10/24/05) — I would like to welcome everyone who has come to read the Carnival of the RINOs. My name is Kevin Boyd and I currently reside in Southeast Louisiana in a city called Slidell. This carnival almost did not happen because of Hurricane Katrina which forced …
Michael Yon / Online Magazine:
Purple Fingers — Baghdad — The Perch — I was in Baquba during the January elections. I'd hitched a ride with the US Army to a polling site. There were bombs exploding, mortars falling, and hot machine guns. The fact that the voting was going great despite the violence was something few people expected.
Balkinization:
What Should Democrats Do About Miers? Beyond the Popcorn Strategy — What should the Democrats do about the Miers nomination? Currently, the Democrats are engaged in a "popcorn" strategy. Metaphorically speaking, they are sitting back, munching on popcorn, and enjoying the show as Republicans fight among themselves.
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