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6:15 PM ET, June 7, 2006

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Matt Stoller / MyDD:
Progressive Messaging Wins: Tester, Angelides, Winograd, and Bilbray?  —  Brian Bilbray ran to the left of Francine Busby.  I know it sounds weird, but he did.  That he won on a progressive platform is biggest story of the night.  Busby's loss was a loss no matter how it's spun …
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Dean / Dean's World:
Bellwether Election?  —  A very corrupt Republican congressman from California, Randy "Duke" Cunningham, recently had to resign his congressional seat.  Last night his precinct had a special runoff election to determine who his replacement would be: Republican Brian P. Bilbray or Democrat Francine Busby.
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Republican Wins House Race in Calif.  —  SAN DIEGO, June 7 — A Republican former congressman slipped to victory in a special election here Tuesday, staving off what would have been a highly embarrassing Democratic victory in a solidly Republican district.  National Republicans poured …
Washington Post:
Republican Wins Bellwether California Election  —  The California Congressional seat vacated by jailed former representative Randy "Duke" Cunningham will remain in Republican hands after a special election Tuesday in which a lobbyist narrowly defeated a Democratic school board member.
Kos / Daily Kos:
CA-50: Post-mortem  —  Well, it seems everything I've been saying …
Discussion: The American Street and TAPPED
Laurie Kellman / Associated Press:
Supporters lose in gay marriage ban vote  —  WASHINGTON - The Senate on Wednesday rejected a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, dealing a defeat to President Bush and Republicans who hoped to use the measure to energize conservative voters on Election Day.
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CNN:
Senate blocks same-sex marriage ban  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — The Senate blocked on Wednesday a bid to amend the Constitution to essentially ban same-sex marriage.  —  Republicans pushed the plan even though supporters conceded the measure did not have enough votes to pass.
Adam Lisberg / NY Daily News:
Massive chip on her Coulter  —  Ann's vicious screed  —  When their husbands were killed on 9/11, four New Jersey widows tried to find out why - and now no-holds-barred conservative pundit Ann Coulter is mercilessly denouncing them as "witches."  —  "I've never seen people enjoying …
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R. Jeffrey Smith / Washington Post:
Retirement Account of DeLay's Wife Traced  —  With Disclosure, Family's Known Benefits From Ties With Lobbyist Exceed $490,000  —  A registered lobbyist opened a retirement account in the late 1990s for the wife of then-House Whip Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) and contributed thousands of dollars …
Discussion: Wonkette and TPMmuckraker
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USA Today:
DeLay: GOP's 'panic, depression' risk losing elections  —  WASHINGTON — Former House majority leader Tom DeLay said he's "disappointed" in three ex-associates who pleaded guilty in a federal probe of political corruption, but he said their admissions "doesn't mean I knew" of their efforts to bribe Congress.
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Heidi / euphoricreality.net:
Army Officer Refuses Orders
Discussion: BLACKFIVE, Argghhh! and GroupIntel
Warren Hoge / New York Times:
Official of U.N. Says Americans Undermine It With Criticism  —  UNITED NATIONS, June 6 — Secretary General Kofi Annan's deputy assailed the United States on Tuesday for withholding support from the United Nations, encouraging its harshest detractors and undermining an institution that he said Washington needed more than it would admit.
Michelle Malkin:
A SMEAR YOU CAN'T TAKE BACK  —  The London Times is getting praise for issuing an apology over falsely captioning an April 2005 picture of fishermen executed at a Haditha, Iraq stadium by insurgents as depicting victims of Marines in the Nov. 19 incident still under investigation—which I reported over the weekend.
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Tony Blankley / Washington Times:
Media dance macabre
Discussion: Wizbang
New York Times:
A Chance for Justice in Hawaii  —  For Native Hawaiians, the last two centuries have been a struggle against extinction.  Not long after Captain Cook sailed up in 1778, disease, poverty and political and economic exploitation began pushing their culture toward the vanishing point.
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Mark Leibovich / New York Times:
Senate Contender in Florida Presses On  —  VENICE, Fla. — Undaunted by a run of horrific poll numbers, staff turmoil and public doubts from leaders of her party, Representative Katherine Harris is thinking confidently beyond November.  —  Once Ms. Harris wins her race for a Senate seat …
Jeremy Alford / New York Times:
Louisiana Governor Plans to Sign Anti-Abortion Law  —  BATON ROUGE, La., June 6 — Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco's office said Tuesday that she would shortly sign into law a strict ban on abortion that would permit abortion only in the case where a woman's life was threatened by pregnancy.
Baltimore Examiner:
President Bush's victories receiving little attention  —  SAN FRANCISCO - When President Bush nominated Gen. Michael Hayden to run the CIA, the press focused on disapproving Democrats and even some Republicans who were dubious about confirmation.  —  A month later, when the Senate confirmed Hayden …
Dana Hull / Mercury News:
Voters reject Prop.  82  —  California voters soundly rejected Proposition 82 Tuesday, crushing the hopes of early childhood education advocates who hoped to make universal preschool public policy in the nation's most populous state.  —  Throughout much of the evening …
Washington Post:
Data Theft Affected Most in Military  —  Social Security numbers and other personal information for as many as 2.2 million U.S. military personnel — including nearly 80 percent of the active-duty force — were among the data stolen from the home of a Department of Veterans Affairs analyst last month …
Discussion: Democratic Veteran and Wonkette
 
 
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Salvaging Iraq  —  The images from Iraq are of hell on earth …
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Katie Robertson / New York Times:
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Porter Anderson / Publishing Perspectives:
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