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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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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 …
Eleanor Clift / Newsweek:
Murtha's Moment — The White House is still attacking critics by questioning their patriotism. But Congress—and the public—are becoming more skeptical. — Nov. 18, 1005 - Pennsylvania Democrat John Murtha is a burly ex-Marine with a Bronze Star and two Purple Hearts who rarely speaks to the press.
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Juan / Informed Comment:Straw Man Resolution in Congress: — Joking around with the Lives of the Troops
Money Politic$ / Kudlow's Money Politic$:Unserious — Any preannounced timetable for troop withdrawal …
Andrew / www.AndrewSullivan.com:WHY NOT THE MURTHA PROPOSAL? — Here's what strikes me as the salient question right now.
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:Democrats Don't Bite GOP-Baited Hook As Iraq Withdrawal Resolution Fails
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Daily Kos, ProfessorBainbridge.com, The Mahablog, The Carpetbagger Report, QandO and The All Spin Zone
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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Captain's Quarters, The Washington Monthly, The Tar Pit, Wizbang, AMERICAblog, The Strata-Sphere, Macsmind, blogs4God and Decision '08
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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.
Arianna Huffington / The Huffington Post:
Bob Woodward's 'Firecracker,' the Second Coming of Judy's Notebook? — So Patrick Fitzgerald is going to impanel a new Plamegate grand jury. Meaning this thing is far from over. And that Bob Woodward, among others, is going to continue to have some more explaining to do.
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The Next Hurrah, Yellow Dog Blog, AMERICAblog, The Sideshow, blogs4God, News Blog, Poynter Online and Small Town Veteran
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
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, Michelle Malkin, Donklephant, Macsmind, The Y Files and Stuck On Stupid
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
SisterToldjah / California Conservative:
NY Times Gets Schmidt'S Comments Wrong — Typical — and of course this will be the talking point for the Dems (as regurgitated from the DNC - emphasis added): … As we all know, the Democrats are the masters of righteous indignation and faux outrage. And the kings of media manipulation.
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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 …
Jay Tea / Wizbang:
UNLEARNING THE LESSONS OF THE PAST — Now the Democrats are saying we need a "clearly defined exit strategy" in Iraq. This is a time-honored practice — but honored in its failure. Let's look back on the 20th Century wars of the United States, and see just how well the application of this theory has held up:
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Cold Fury
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Alan Cooperman / Washington Post:
IRS Reviews Church's Status — 2004 Antiwar Sermon Sparked Look at Tax Exemption — The Internal Revenue Service is examining the tax-exempt status of a liberal church in Southern California because its former pastor delivered a fiery antiwar sermon that criticized President Bush by name …
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Ian Traynor / Guardian:
Iranians admit receiving nuclear warhead blueprint from disgraced Pakistani expert — International suspicion of Iran's nuclear programme heightened yesterday when it was revealed that Tehran had obtained a blueprint showing how to build the core of a nuclear warhead.
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.
