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Liz Sidoti / Associated Press:
Senate Republicans Block Iraq Timetable — WASHINGTON - The Republican-controlled Senate easily defeated a Democratic effort Tuesday to pressure President Bush to outline a timetable for a phased withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. It then overwhelmingly endorsed a weaker statement calling …
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Senate Votes to Demand Regular Iraq Updates From White House — WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 - The Senate signaled its growing unease with the war in Iraq today, voting overwhelmingly to demand regular reports from the White House on the course of the conflict and on the progress that Iraqi forces are making in securing their own country.
Marty Lederman / Balkinization:
Confusing Developments Senate-Side on GTMO Detention, Commissions and Habeas — (Cross-posted in part at SCOTUSblog.) — [UPDATE: The Senate approved the Graham/Levin "compromise" amendment (see below) by a vote of 84-14. All of the No votes but one (that of Sen. Specter) were cast by Democrats.]
Hilzoy / Obsidian Wings:
Habeas and Guantanamo: Breaking News — All right. There are two new amendments: — Graham has proposed an amendment to his own amendment, which is co-sponsored by Carl Levin and John Kyl. Here is a PDF of it. It still cuts off habeas but it allows more judicial review than the version …
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Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Senators Agree on Detainee Rights — A bipartisan group of senators reached a compromise yesterday that would dramatically alter U.S. policy for treating captured terrorist suspects by granting them a final recourse to the federal courts but stripping them of some key legal rights.
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Washington Times:
Liberals rap Alito's anti-Roe stance — Liberals said yesterday that Supreme Court nominee Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr.'s 1985 claim that "the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion" proves that he would try to outlaw the practice. — "He opposes a woman's constitutional right …
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Andrew Leigh / National Review:
Pajama-Clad Revolutionaries — A year ago, Jonathan Klein, current president of CNN, airily dismissed the bloggers who dethroned Dan Rather. "These bloggers have no checks and balances... You couldn't have a starker contrast between the multiple layers of checks and balances [at 60 Minutes] …
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USA Today:
A 'fiscal hurricane' on the horizon — WASHINGTON — The comptroller general of the United States is explaining over eggs how the nation's finances are going to hell. — "We face a demographic tsunami" that "will never recede," David Walker tells a group of reporters.
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California Conservative:
When Democrats Attack The President And How The MSM Reports It — Responding to an attack is called a defense. — Unfortunately, the Associated Press doesn't see it that way. — As a recipient of one of today's stupid-headline awards, AP declares: "Bush Escalates Bitter Iraq War Debate"
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Thomas Oliphant / Boston Globe:
Bush's magnificent deception — JUST FOR the record, the polling numbers President Bush claims not to read show the following with regard to the run-up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003: — According to The Wall Street Journal-NBC News survey last week, 57 percent of the sample believe Bush …
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
The Ginsburg Fallacy — To hear some Republicans tell it, letting Ruth Bader Ginsburg onto the Supreme Court was a tough pill to swallow. She was an ACLU-loving, bra-burning feminazi, but they supported her anyway, dutifully respecting the president's right to put his own stamp on the high court.
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E. J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Another Set of Scare Tactics — Mr. President, it won't work this time. — With a Wall Street Journal/NBC News Poll finding 57 percent of Americans agreeing that George W. Bush "deliberately misled people to make the case for war with Iraq," the president clearly needs to tend to his credibility problems.
Fred Kaplan / Slate:
I Was Wrong, but So Were You — Parsing Bush's new mantra. — Download the MP3 audio version of this story here, or sign up to get all of Slate's free daily podcasts. — President George W. Bush has suddenly shifted rhetoric on the war in Iraq. Until recently, the administration's line …
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James Pinkerton / Tech Central Station:
Truth and Doodie — Welcome to the next installment of the continuing saga: Mary Mapes vs. the Blogs, in which, for good measure, she takes on reality, too. And at the same time, we can consider the rise, fall — and possible comeback — of Mapes as part of the ongoing power-struggle between the MSM …
Stephen Labaton / New York Times:
Report Says Ex-Chief of Public TV Violated Federal Law — WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 - Investigators at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting concluded today that its former chairman repeatedly broke federal law and its own regulations in a campaign to combat what he saw as liberal bias.
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Nathan / NathanNewman.org:
Alito Against Democracy — The release of Alito's 1985 Job Application is causing ripples because of his clear statement that "the Constitution does not protect the right to an abortion." — But forget Roe— that's just confirmation of what everyone suspected, and I continue to believe …
New York Times:
Decoding Mr. Bush's Denials — To avoid having to account for his administration's misleading statements before the war with Iraq, President Bush has tried denial, saying he did not skew the intelligence. He's tried to share the blame, claiming that Congress had the same intelligence he had, as well as President Bill Clinton.
