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USA Today:
President's ratings hit new low in poll — WASHINGTON — Americans' views of President Bush and his trustworthiness have hit new lows, a downturn that could make it more difficult for him to push his legislative agenda and to boost Republican candidates in next year's congressional elections.
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War and Piece, Swing State Project, Taegan Goddard's …, Basie!, The Heretik, Talking Points Memo and The Next Hurrah
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CNN:
Poll: Bush approval mark at all-time low — (CNN) — Beset with an unpopular war and an American public increasingly less trusting, President Bush faces the lowest approval rating of his presidency, according to a national poll released Monday. — Bush also received his all-time worst marks …
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Sirotablog, Marc Cooper, Below The Beltway, Confederate Yankee, The Mahablog and Decision '08
Hilzoy / Obsidian Wings:
Closing Statement — Unless the Bingaman amendment is introduced Tuesday instead of Monday, or hilzoy has something up her sleeve, I think this is the last post we are going to be able to do on this subject. It will also be the shortest. — First, I wanted to provide links to all the posts …
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Senate Republicans Pushing for a Plan on Ending the War in Iraq — WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 - In a sign of increasing unease among Congressional Republicans over the war in Iraq, the Senate is to consider on Tuesday a Republican proposal that calls for Iraqi forces to take the lead next year …
John / AMERICAblog:
Target digs itself a deeper hole in emergency contraceptive scandal — AMERICAblog reader, and fellow blogger, Joseph Hughes of Hughes for America, just sent me the latest response from Target about their growing emergency contraception scandal. — Full disclosure, I've worked as a consultant …
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Hullabaloo, TBogg, TheAgitator.com, Happy Furry Puppy Story …, Patridiot Watch, Think Progress, Eschaton, Nitpicker, BlondeSense and Seeing the Forest
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Maria Newman / New York Times:F.D.A.'s Rejection of Contraceptive Is Questioned
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Andrew / Confirm Them:
Alito on Abortion, Circa 1985 — RSS feed for comments and Trackback URI for 'Alito on Abortion, Circa 1985'. — Patterico's Pontifications » Breaking: Alito Firmly Said Constitution Does Not Protect Right to Abortion - — Stop The ACLU - — Aggressive Conservative -
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White House:
President Delivers Remarks at Elmendorf AFB on War on Terror — THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all. Thanks for the warm welcome. (Applause.) Laura and I were in the neighborhood - (laughter) — we thought we'd come by to say hello to the nation's "Arctic Warriors." (Applause.)
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The Heretik
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David Stout / New York Times:
Parents Carry Burden of Proof in School Cases, Court Rules — WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 - The Supreme Court ruled today, in a case of intense interest to educators and millions of parents, that people who demand changes to their children's special-education programs have the burden of proving those programs inadequate.
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ACSBlog
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Christopher Hitchens / Slate:
Believe It or Not — Are you sure you want to keep saying we were fooled by Ahmad Chalabi and the INC? — What do you have to believe in order to keep alive your conviction that the Bush administration conspired to launch a lie-based war? As with (I admit) the pro-war case, the ground of argument has a tendency to shift.
White House:
Setting the Record Straight: The Washington Post On Pre-War Intelligence — The Washington Post Implies That The Presidential Daily Brief (PDB) Was Superior To The National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) Given To Congress. "But Bush does not share his most sensitive intelligence, such as the President's Daily Brief, with lawmakers.
White House:
Setting the Record Straight: Sen. Levin On Iraq — Sen. Levin (D-MI) Tries To Separate Iraq From The War On Terror. SEN. LEVIN: "But before the war, the President was saying that you cannot distinguish between Saddam Hussein and Iraq. As a matter of fact, he said that so often that he tried …
Andrew A. Green / Baltimore Sun:
Ehrlich bristles at Oreo skeptics … Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. said yesterday that he is angry at "revisionism" from political opponents who question a much-repeated story about Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele being pelted with Oreos during a 2002 campaign debate in Baltimore.
Kevin Drum / The Washington Monthly:
MANIPULATING INTELLIGENCE....Did the Bush administration mislead the country during the runup to the Iraq war? It's true that they turned out to be wrong about a great many things, but that doesn't answer the question. It merely begs it. Were they sincerely wrong, or did they intentionally manipulate …
Terence Hunt / Associated Press:
Bush escalates bitter Iraq war debate — ELMENDORF AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska (AP) — President Bush escalated the bitter debate over the Iraq war on Monday, hurling back at Democratic critics the worries they once expressed that Saddam Hussein was a grave threat to the world.
Audrey Hudson / Washington Times:
No Dean apology for Steele — The chairman of the Republican Party yesterday challenged his Democratic counterpart to condemn racist statements against Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele, but Howard Dean demanded his own apology and ignored the question. — The former Vermont governor …
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Blogs for Bush, G e n e r a t i o n W h y ?, Brendan Nyhan, Sister Toldjah and The Strata-Sphere
Digby / Hullabaloo:
Incompetent On All Levels by digby Those of us w... Incompetent On All Levels — Those of us who've been writing about the torture regime for a long while already knew that the DOD had decided to use the SERE techniques to "interrogate" prisoners. This NY Times article reveals something about this I didn't know before —
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The Claremont Institute, Talking Points Memo, Once Upon a Time and THE BELGRAVIA DISPATCH
