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Bush and DeLay: Never A Texas Two-Step — The Bush Administration sees the former House majority leader as a necessary burden — When legal and ethical questions began spinning around House majority leader Tom DeLay last year, President George W. Bush was publicly supportive.
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Los Angeles Times:
A Donor Who Had Big Allies — DeLay and two others helped put the brakes on a federal probe of a businessman. Evidence was published in the Congressional Record. — WASHINGTON — In a case that echoes the Jack Abramoff influence-peddling scandal, two Northern California Republican congressmen used …
Washington Post:
Ethics Issues Snared GOP's Champion — DeLay's Focus on Fundraising Powered Party Gains But Led to Problems — Standing before a crowd of applauding House Republicans in the Capitol Hill Club last March, then-Majority Leader Tom DeLay (Tex.) inscribed $1.8 million on a giant check and signed …
Jane Roh / Fox News:
Democrats Hit Possible Snag Ahead of Alito Hearings — A key witness to the character of Judge Samuel A. Alito has been removed from the Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats' testimony list, FOXNews.com has learned. — Stephen R. Dujack, editor of The Environmental Forum magazine …
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Decision '08, Captain's Quarters, California Conservative, Carol Platt Liebau, Betsy's Page and Stop The ACLU
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Douglass K. Daniel / Associated Press:
Specter Seeks Gonzales Testimony on Spying — WASHINGTON - The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said Sunday he has asked Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to testify during open hearings on the legality of the Bush administration's domestic spying program.
CNN:
CNN LATE EDITION WITH WOLF BLITZER — Interview With Shimon Peres; Interview With Benjamin Netanyahu — THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. — WOLF BLITZER, HOST: It's 11:00 a.m. in Washington, 8:00 a.m. in Los Angeles, 6:00 p.m. here in Jerusalem and 7:00 p.m. in Baghdad.
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WTF Is It Now??
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Dean issues Smack-down on Wolfie — They are trying so hard to link Democrats to Abramoff's scandal that on today's Late Edition, Howard Dean almost set Wolfie's beard on fire. — Video-WMP Video-QT (transcript) — Blitzer has been doing much better as an interviewer lately …
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skippy the bush kangaroo, Think Progress, The All Spin Zone, Booman Tribune and Bareknucklepolitics.com
Robert Kuttner / Boston Globe:
Alito may be the worst choice — AT THIS moment in American history, it would be hard to find a worse Supreme Court nominee than Samuel A. Alito Jr. His ideology captures everything extremist about the Bush administration. If confirmed, Alito would serve as Bush's enabler.
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Confirm Them
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Jason / COUNTERCOLUMN:
Saddam's terror training camps - and how Stephen Hayes misses the mark — Stephen Hayes is reporting that Saddam's regime was running three separate training facilities in Iraq - in Samarra, Ramadi, and Salman Pak - graduating 2,000 foreign terrorist every year from 1999 to 2002.
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Dave Johnson / Seeing the Forest:
DOES Everybody Do It? — You're reading a lot about a corruption scandal in Washington. Some people are trying to tell you that "everybody does it" and that both parties are involved and that whenever you try to take the money out of politics it finds another way in.
Mark / Decision '08:
None Dare Call It Treason? (Part Two) — Cindy Sheehan, comparing George W. Bush to Osbama bin Laden: … Let's quit mincing words - Sheehan hides behind the death of her son, but it won't work. That's a foul accusation, and I feel more justified than ever in giving her the Jackass of the Year...
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protein wisdom
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Nicholas Wapshott / Independent:
Get out of MySpace, bloggers rage at Murdoch — Angry members of MySpace, the personal file-sharing website for young adults, are accusing Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation of censoring their postings and blocking their access to rival sites. — The 38 million subscribers to MySpace …
BBC:
The wit and wisdom of Tony Banks — In stark contrast to the generally turgid language of politics, Tony Banks was known for his acid tongue and sharp wit. — He called the once feared Tory Prime Minister, Baroness Thatcher, "half mad", William Hague was labelled a "foetus" …
Smash / The Indepundit:
SMASH vs. Filner — SATURDAY AFTERNOON, I attended an "Out of Iraq" forum at a local church, featuring a keynote address by anti-war Congressman Bob Filner. After his speech, Filner opened up the floor for questions. He fielded a few softballs from the largely friendly crowd. — Then he called on me.
Miriam Pawel / Los Angeles Times:
Farmworkers Reap Little as Union Strays From Its Roots — The movement built by Cesar Chavez has failed to expand on its early successes organizing poor rural laborers. As their plight is used to attract donations that benefit others, services for those in the fields are left to languish.
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The Easy Way — The Washington Post makes simple corrections but does not address the real issues — The Washington Post has printed corrections to the article Bloggers, Money Now Weapons in Information War - U.S. Recruits Advocates to the Front, Pays Iraqi TV Stations for Coverage:
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Zbigniew Brzezinski / Washington Post:
The Real Choice in Iraq — "Bring 'em on." — President Bush on Iraqi insurgents, summer 2003 — The insurgency is "in its last throes." — Vice President Cheney, summer 2005 — " . . . there are only two options before our country: victory or defeat." — President Bush, Christmas 2005
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Several matters — There are a couple of posts I wanted to finish today but won't be able to until tomorrow. Until then, here a few interesting things of note: — (1) The AP poll reporting that 56% of Americans already believe that the Bush Administration should be required to obtain warrants …
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Harvey Mansfield / Weekly Standard:The Law and the President — EMERGENCY POWER FOR SUCH UNDERHANDED …
David Rose / Observer:
Scandal of force-fed prisoners — Hunger strikers are tied down and fed through nasal tubes, admits Guantánamo Bay doctor — New details have emerged of how the growing number of prisoners on hunger strike at Guantánamo Bay are being tied down and force-fed through tubes pushed …
Donald Sensing / One Hand Clapping:
US Army gets on the blog train — Interesting discussion at Instapundit about the MSM, blogs and the military. The Bill Roggio-Washington Post kerfuffle is still alive and well. But here I comment upon an email from an Army colonel Glenn Reynolds quotes. Writes the colonel,
Steven Erlanger / New York Times:
With Sharon Ill, Palestinians Face Own Travails — JERUSALEM, Jan. 7 - The sudden political disappearance of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, struggling for life after a massive stroke, has thrown the future of any peace process with the Palestinians into question.
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Mediacrity
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Ibrahim Barzak / Associated Press:Hamas Talks of Possibly Forming Government
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