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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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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 …
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.
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The Anchoress
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Hardly Seems Fair To Quote Them Now — I haven't found Ted Kennedy's floor speech prior to the October 2002 vote on the war resolution, but here he is at SAIS on Sept 27, 2002. Early laugh lines include these: … and … Only later did Kennedy realize what a liar Bush was, and how important it was to question his motives.
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Don Surber, The Heretik, The Truth Laid Bear, GOP Bloggers, One Hand Clapping and The Mahablog
Steve Bainbridge / ProfessorBainbridge.com:
Alito on Abortion: Vindication for the Anti-Miers Crowd — The Washington Times dug up a 1985 job application submitted by Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito to then attorney general Ed Meese. In it, Alito stated: … Several observations: — I think this clearly vindicates those of us who led the anti-Miers fight.
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Sean McCabe / judicialnetwork.com:1985 Alito statement that constitution does not protect abortion is widely held
Bill Sammon / Washington Times:Alito rejected abortion as a right
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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.
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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.
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, TheAgitator.com, Patridiot Watch, Think Progress, Eschaton, Nitpicker, BlondeSense and Seeing the Forest
Fred Hiatt / Washington Post:
The Politics of War — Adel Abdul Mahdi, Iraq's vice president, may seem a bit unfeeling as he assesses the ongoing violence in his country. It is very hard, he says — but better than during Saddam Hussein's day, when, Mahdi says, each year 30,000 Iraqis were executed or assassinated by the regime or killed in the dictator's wars.
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New Yorker:
SCOTUS WATCH — In the months since Sandra Day O'Connor announced her retirement, Americans have become obsessed with judge-watching. The new pastime practically eclipsed the World Series, with fans paying more attention to Harriet Miers's eye makeup than to Jermaine Dye's batting average.
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How Appealing, Concurring Opinions, PrawfsBlawg, ACSBlog, SCOTUSblog, The Volokh Conspiracy and Crescat Sententia
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Article III Groupie / Underneath Their Robes:Under Her Robe — Article III Groupie recently gave Jeffrey Toobin …
Washington Post:
Detainees Deserve Court Trials — As the Senate prepared to vote Thursday to abolish the writ of habeas corpus, Sens. Lindsey Graham and Jon Kyl were railing about lawyers like me. Filing lawsuits on behalf of the terrorists at Guantanamo Bay. Terrorists! Kyl must have said the word 30 times.
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Obsidian Wings, firedoglake, A Blog For All, The Washington Monthly, The Heretik, Think Progress, Hit and Run, Preemptive Karma, Unfogged, MaxSpeak and TalkLeft
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 …
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 —
New York Times:
Spain Looks Into C.I.A.'s Handling of Detainees — LONDON, Nov. 11 - On the Spanish island of Majorca, the police quietly opened a criminal investigation in March after a local newspaper reported a series of visits to the island's international airport by planes known to regularly operate for the Central Intelligence Agency.
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The Moderate Voice
McQ / QandO:
ANOTHER CARTER LAMENT — Jimmy Carter has again lashed out with an op/ed. While mostly unsupported by facts it is long on lament and the misrepresentation of issues and positions. — Examples: … We're still engaged with the UN and its programs although we've been deeply, and rightfully, critical of them.
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Mark Steyn / Telegraph:
Bicultural Europe is doomed — Three years ago -December 2002 - I was asked to take part in a symposium on Europe and began with the observation: "I find it easier to be optimistic about the futures of Iraq and Pakistan than, say, Holland or Denmark." — At the time, this was taken as confirmation of my descent into insanity.
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Betsy's Page
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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