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Froggy / BLACKFIVE:
THE ZARQAWI OPERATION: MURTHA STYLE — This morning on Meet the Cuomo aide, Tim Russert's guest was firebrand Congressman and Congressional Cowardice Caucus Chairman, John Murtha. In addition to reiterating his invocation of the Clinton evacuation from Somalia in 1993 as the example the US …
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Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler
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MSNBC:
Transcript for June 11 — John Murtha, John Hofmeister, James Mulva, David O'Reilly. — MR. TIM RUSSERT: Our issues this Sunday: The president digs in on Iraq. — (Videotape): — PRES. GEORGE W. BUSH: And we will do what it takes to help them succeed.
Jeff Goldstein / protein wisdom:
Help Wanted (UPDATED with video) — What follows is an excerpt from a June 18 transcript of "Meet the Press," featuring a Tim Russert interview with Rep John Murtha (D-PA) that I'm hoping somebody will please translate for me. Because I'm afraid I don't speak Murtha—which I'd previously assumed …
Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
FDL Book Salon — Lapdogs, Pt. I — The FDL Book Salon is so happy to welcome Peter Daou, who will be leading today's discussion on the first half of Eric Boehlert's book Lapdogs: How the Press Rolled Over for Bush . — CHS — It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us - Lord Byron
Ian / Expose the Left:Murtha Bashes Rove, Says Republicans "Have No Plan" For Iraq (VIDEO)
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Riehl World View
Greg Mitchell / Editor and Publisher:
'Wash Post' Obtains Shocking Memo from U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Details Increasing Danger and Hardship — NEW YORK The Washington Post has obtained a cable, marked "sensitive," that it says show that just before President Bush left on a surprise trip last Monday to the Green Zone in Baghdad …
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The Reaction, The Road to Surfdom, Jesus' General, ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES and skippy the bush kangaroo
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New York Times:
North Koreans Could Be Close to Missile Test — WASHINGTON, June 18 - North Korea appears to have completed fueling a long-range ballistic missile, American officials said Sunday, a move that greatly increases the probability that Pyongyang will go ahead with its first important test launch in eight years.
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democracyarsenal.org, The Washington Monthly, The Reaction, Booman Tribune and The Moderate Voice
Anne Saunders / delawareonline:
Biden in N.H.: 'I'm running for president' — DOVER, N.H. — Calling the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks a greater shock to the American psyche than Pearl Harbor, Sen. Joe Biden said Saturday that Democrats must demonstrate they can provide for national security to win back the presidency.
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american footprints, First Draft, Done With Mirrors, Blue Crab Boulevard, Riehl World View and Eschaton
Proteus / Eject! Eject!:
RAFTS — This is the introduction to a new book entitled AN AMERICAN CIVILIZATION. … There is a British tradition at Christmas time, a tradition I would love to see transplanted to these American shores. It's an old form of interactive theater called the Pantomime.
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The Sundries Shack
Roddy Boyd / New York Post:
SHILL TO HACK — CELEBRATED LIB STRATEGIST HAS SHADY MARKET PAST — June 18, 2006 — Jerome Armstrong, the political strategist who followed a famous Internet fundraising effort for Howard Dean in 2004 with a book on "people-powered politics," has a sordid past as a shill for a worthless dot-com stock.
New York Times:
A Long Road Ahead in Iraq — Rather than engage in a serious debate about America's future course in Iraq, President Bush and the Republican Congress have again opted for sound bites and partisanship. Yet all the choreographed posturing and a one-week flurry of good news cannot blot …
CNN:
CNN RELIABLE SOURCES — Coverage of Rove's Role in Plame Leak Investigation; Interview With Jim Lehrer — THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. — HOWARD KURTZ, HOST: Rove's reprieve. After years of media speculation …
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
In 2003, U.S. Spurned Iran's Offer of Dialogue — Just after the lightning takeover of Baghdad by U.S. forces three years ago, an unusual two-page document spewed out of a fax machine at the Near East bureau of the State Department. It was a proposal from Iran for a broad dialogue with the United States …
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american footprints, QandO, The Washington Monthly, The Reaction, Unclaimed Territory, The Heretik, The Agonist and Liberty Street
James Traub / New York Times:
The Submerging Republican Majority — During the 2000 presidential campaign, Karl Rove, the political mastermind George W. Bush called Boy Genius, was wont to draw an analogy with the election of 1896, in which the Republican William McKinley drubbed William Jennings Bryan.
Washington Post:
Illegal Hiring Is Rarely Penalized — Politics, 9/11 Cited in Lax Enforcement — The Bush administration, which is vowing to crack down on U.S. companies that hire illegal workers, virtually abandoned such employer sanctions before it began pushing to overhaul U.S. immigration laws last year, government statistics show.
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