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Poll: More Bad News For Bush — (CBS) Most Americans believe someone in the Bush Administration did leak Valerie Plame's name to reporters - even though Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald indicted no one for doing that. Half of the public describes the matter as something of great importance …
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Bush's Job Approval Hits New Low — (CBS) Tempers cooled a bit in Washington today after the partisan meltdown that brought Senate business to a halt Tuesday. — Even so, neither Congress nor the White House will find much in a new CBS News poll to put them in a better humor.
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Poll: Approval Ratings Compared — For Part 1 of this poll, click here. — Bush's low job approval is far below that of some of his two-term predecessors at this point in their second terms. In November 1985, President Reagan had a 65 percent approval rating, and Bill Clinton's job approval in November 1997 was 57 percent.
S.A. Miller / Washington Times:
'Party trumps race' for Steele foes — Black Democratic leaders in Maryland say that racially tinged attacks against Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele in his bid for the U.S. Senate are fair because he is a conservative Republican. — Such attacks against the first black man to win a statewide election …
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Washington Post:
Rove's Future Role Is Debated — White House May Seek Fresh Start In Wake of Leak — Top White House aides are privately discussing the future of Karl Rove, with some expressing doubt that President Bush can move beyond the damaging CIA leak case as long as his closest political strategist remains in the administration.
Jim Abrams / Associated Press:
House Defeats Bill on Political Blogs — WASHINGTON - Online political expression should not be exempt from campaign finance law, the House decided Wednesday as lawmakers warned that the Internet has opened up a new loophole for uncontrolled spending on elections.
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Glenn Foil / THE STEEL DEAL:BLOGS in the News — House Declines to Exempt Political Web Sites
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National Review:
Who Did What? — The hot-blooded search for criminality in the matter of Cheney/Libby/Rove has not truly satisfied those in search of first degree venality. Very soon after the indictment of Mr. Libby, the tricoteuses glumly conceded that no conspiracy has been uncovered.
Reuters:
French youths riot for seventh night running — PARIS (Reuters) - Violence broke out in Paris suburbs for the seventh night running overnight on Thursday after French youths set fire to dozens of cars. — The continuing unrest compounds pressure on Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin's government …
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Francis Fukuyama / Opinion Journal:
A Year of Living Dangerously — Remember Theo van Gogh, and shudder for the future. — One year ago today, the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh had his throat ritually slit by Mohamed Bouyeri, a Muslim born in Holland who spoke fluent Dutch. This event has totally transformed Dutch politics …
Bloomberg:
Alito Finds Constitutional Privacy Right, Durbin Says (Update2) — Nov. 2 (Bloomberg) — Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito Jr., meeting with lawmakers on Capitol Hill, told one senator that the U.S. Constitution guarantees a right to privacy and won praise from Democratic Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska.
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Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:
'Unprecedented' hypocrisy — I don't want to belabor yesterday's closed session controversy, but there's one part of the Republicans' response that warrants follow-up. — As GOP senators rushed to microphones yesterday, most of them purple with rage, the buzz word was "unprecedented."
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David Neiwert / Orcinus:
Unhinged indeed — One of the reasons Michelle Malkin fails the test of being an actual journalist lies in the way she conducts her work: There is simply no evidence of any attempt at fairness. — A serious journalist — theoretically, at least — tries to operate with an open mind.
Bill Carter / New York Times:
CNN Ousts Aaron Brown and Gives Slot to Anderson Cooper — CNN ousted its longtime prime-time anchor, Aaron Brown, today in favor of Anderson Cooper, who has received extensive media attention in the wake of his widely publicized coverage of Hurricane Katrina.
Mrs Smash / The Indepundit:
Project Valour-IT Fundraising Drive — While Smash is busy with his "real" job, I've been asked to take over certain tasks "around the house." One of the duties I've been assigned is heading the charge for the Navy in the Project Valour-IT Fundraising Competition.
WorldNetDaily:
Michael Moore owns Halliburton! — New book debunks claims of celebrity activists — "I don't own a single share of stock!" filmmaker Michael Moore proudly proclaimed. — He's right. He doesn't own a single share. He owns tens of thousands of shares - including nearly 2,000 shares of Boeing …
Timothy Burke / Easily Distracted:
The Union Label — Even back when my political sensibilities were more party-line progressive than they are now, I was always uneasy about the expectation that any given action by a labor union mandatorily demanded unquestioning support. — Partly that's the consequence of growing …
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Jonathan Alter / Newsweek:
Is Rove a Security Risk? — Because he disclosed Plame's CIA identity to reporters, the Bush aide could lose his clearance. — Nov. 2, 2005 - The conventional wisdom in Washington this week is that Karl Rove is out of the woods. But while an indictment against him in the Valerie Plame leak case …
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Greyhawk / Mudville Gazette:
LYING TIMES — Michelle Malkin has a follow up report on the storm brewing over the New York Times' use of selective quotes from a final letter home from an American GI. — For those who might not have known, the Times took these words from US Marine Corporal Jeffrey B. Starr:
