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John / Discriminations:
"The Swift-Boating Of Jack Murtha"? — Those damn Republicans! How low can they stoop? You'd think that lying us into war would at least provide the limit to their perfidy, but now they've outdone themselves and sunk even lower: they've had the temerity to take a leading Democrat …
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Tom Bevan / The RCP Blog:
Hats Off To Three Democrats — Let's recap what happened last night. After months of publicly berating President Bush as a liar over pre-war intel and after invoking a rarely used rule to shut down the Senate two weeks ago, Democrats are crying foul because....?
Maura Reynolds / Los Angeles Times:
House Erupts in War Debate — Lawmakers launch personal attacks as Republicans force a vote on whether to pull out of Iraq immediately. The measure is rejected. — WASHINGTON — House Republicans forced a vote Friday over a proposal to begin the immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq …
Rob / AMERICAblog:The House Unraveled Tonight
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Ezra Klein, ProfessorBainbridge.com, Hugh Hewitt, Shakespeare's Sister and Taegan Goddard's …
Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:YOU WON — NOW WHAT? That's the title of Taegan Goddard's book …
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PoliBlog, Taegan Goddard's …, Ace of Spades HQ, All Things Conservative and USS Neverdock
Juan / Informed Comment:Straw Man Resolution in Congress: — Joking around with the Lives of the Troops
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Media Alert! — "On The Story", a CNN show airing tonight at 7 PM ET, will include a segment on the Fitzgerald investigation. It is hosted by Jacki Schechner and will feature bloggers Jeralyn Merritt and, yes, yours truly. The spot will probably air in the second half hour.
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Washington Post:
Mr. Woodward's Sources — WE'VE SAID from the start of the investigation into the leak of Valerie Plame's identity that if administration officials deliberately set out to unmask a secret agent, they should be punished. But we've also said that, absent evidence of such behavior …
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The Tar Pit, The Washington Monthly, Captain's Quarters, AMERICAblog, The Strata-Sphere, Wizbang, Macsmind, Decision '08 and blogs4God
Arianna Huffington / The Huffington Post:Bob Woodward's 'Firecracker,' the Second Coming of Judy's Notebook?
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The Next Hurrah, Yellow Dog Blog, The Sideshow, AMERICAblog, blogs4God, News Blog and Poynter Online
Terence Hunt / Associated Press:
Bush Rejects Calls for Iraq Withdrawal — Bush Rejects Calls in Congress for U.S. Troop Withdrawal From Iraq As 'A Recipe for Disaster' — BUSAN, South Korea Nov 18, 2005 — President Bush on Saturday swatted down calls in Congress for a U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq …
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Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Storm Hit Little, but Aid Flowed to Inland City — JACKSON, Miss., Nov. 19 - When the federal government and the nation's largest disaster relief group reached out a helping hand after Hurricane Katrina blew through here, tens of thousands of people grabbed it.
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No More Mister Nice Blog
Washington Times:
200,000 protest Amman attacks — AMMAN, Jordan — At least 200,000 persons demonstrated yesterday against the recent bombings of three luxury hotels, while a new online statement attributed to terrorist leader Abu Musab Zarqawi defended the attacks and threatened to cut off the head of Jordan's King Abdullah II.
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Rantingprofs, QandO, Roger L. Simon, THE ASTUTE BLOGGER, Instapundit.com and Sister Toldjah
White House:
President Addresses Troops at Osan Air Base in Osan, Korea — THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all. Thank you all very much. (Applause.) Please be seated — unless you don't have a seat. (Laughter.) Laura and I are so honored to be here. We thought we'd stop by and feel the thunder and the fury of the Mustangs.
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Talking Points Memo
New York Times:
Bush, in Beijing, Faces a Partner Now on the Rise — BEIJING, Nov. 19 - Fresh from another impassioned defense of his war leadership, President Bush arrived here on Saturday evening to defuse a host of tensions with China, even as many in Beijing argue that he will be able to apply little true pressure …
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Amygdala
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Session Exposes Political Risks Ahead for G.O.P. — WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 - It was a bitter and fitting final note for a discordant Congress. — The ugly debate in the House on Friday over the Iraq war served as an emotional send-off for a holiday recess, capturing perfectly …
Greyhawk / Mudville Gazette:
A BRIEF HISTORY OF A LONG WAR (IRAQ, 1990-2003) — The 2003 invasion of Iraq is likely to be a contested topic in the American discussion for many years to come. As with any fractious issue, opinions will vary and even individual opinions will shift and change with time.
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California Conservative, Macsmind, Michelle Malkin, Donklephant, The Y Files and Stuck On Stupid
Mark Blumenthal / Mystery Pollster:
Columbus Dispatch Poll: Past Performance No Guarantee of Future Results — "Past performance is no guarantee of future results." We typically hear that disclaimer applied to financial investments, but in an era of declining response rates, it should apply just as well to polls.
Walter Pincus / Washington Post:
Lawmakers Focus on Daily Brief In Prewar Intelligence Debate — Kennedy Pushes for Access to Bush's Classified CIA Reports — Senate and House Democrats focused their attention yesterday on the highly classified intelligence provided in the President's Daily Brief, as they continued …
Scott Lemieux / Lawyers, Guns and Money:
The Self-Pity of the Pro-Life Democrat — There are a lot of irritating things about Peter Boyer's recent New Yorker article about Robert Casey's Senate bid in Pennsylvania. Now, to be clear, I believe that politics is strategic and the art of the possible.
