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2:55 AM ET, August 4, 2006

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Matt Stoller / MyDD:
Hail Mary Attempt #1: Lieberman's New Thug Strategy  —  So I just tracked this down with several sources, and something really strange is going on.  Lieberman's campaign seems to arming his supporters with aggressive talking points in order to pick fights at Lamont events.
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Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:
Lieberman Falls Short on Recruits  — Guest contributor Kevin Rennie is a columnist for the Hartford Courant.  —  Lieberman Falls Short on Recruits  —  Sen. Joseph Lieberman's (D-CT) Tour for Tomorrow continues to be punctuated with today's struggles to save his troubled campaign.
Tim Tagaris / Ned Lamont for Senate:
"Paid-for Thuggery" [9]  —  I am just as astonished as anyone else watching reports from today's event in Meriden fly around the blogosphere at break-neck speed.  I'll be honest, at first I was a bit skeptical.  I had heard stories of behind-the-scenes desperation and frustration from the Lieberman camp …
Rolling Stone:
THE LOW POST: The Mansion Family  —  In the first installment of his weekly Web-only column, Matt Taibbi writes that yuppie paranoia (and David Brooks) guarantees the Democrats are still — and forever — doomed.  —  "The conservative mansion has many rooms.
Discussion: Sirotablog and Daily Kos
Associated Press:
Court rules DeLay's name stays on ballot  —  NEW ORLEANS - A federal appeals court panel on Thursday refused to let Texas Republicans replace Tom DeLay's name on the November congressional ballot.  —  A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a ruling …
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R.G. Ratcliffe / Houston Chronicle:
Court rules GOP can't replace DeLay on ballot  —  AUSTIN - A federal appeals court panel today in a bipartisan order ruled that former U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay cannot be replaced on the November ballot for the congressional seat he vacated in June.  —  The Republican Party said it will quickly file …
Jesselee / The Stakeholder:
Tom DeLay Loses Again  —  Lone Star Project...  DeLay stays on the ballot.  Welcome back.  And yes, I can independently confirm this information.  —  UPDATE: From the Chron...  Court rules GOP can't replace DeLay on ballot [AP] … Wow, again?  Sounds like Tom DeLay isn't so anxious …
Anne Plummer Flaherty / Associated Press:
Generals raise fears of Iraq civil war  —  WASHINGTON - Two of the Pentagon's most senior generals conceded to Congress on Thursday that the surge in sectarian violence in Baghdad in recent weeks means Iraq may descend into civil war.  —  "Iraq could move toward civil war" …
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David Stout / New York Times:
U.S. Generals See Growing Threat of Civil War in Iraq
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Nico / Think Progress:
Rumsfeld Claims Insurgent Violence Increases 'In the Spring, Summer and Fall Months'
Discussion: Washington Post
Reuters:
UPDATE 1-US Senate blocks minimum wage hike, estate tax cut  —  WASHINGTON, Aug 3 (Reuters) - A group of mostly Democratic U.S. senators blocked legislation on Thursday that would have raised the federal minimum wage for the first time in a decade, because it also would have permanently cut estate taxes paid by the rich.
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Mary Dalrymple / Associated Press:
Senate rejects estate, minimum wage bill
Discussion: MyDD and Blue Crab Boulevard
Victor Davis Hanson / Real Clear Politics:
It's Not Just About Land  —  Despite the claims of terrorist organizations, Israel's current two-front war is not just about land.  After all, Hezbollah and Hamas fired rockets from Lebanon and Gaza well after Israel had withdrawn from both places.  —  Indeed, if sacred Arab ground …
Discussion: Say Anything and Blogs for Bush
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Val Prieto / Babalu Blog:
A Message to the MSM  —  I'd like to take this opportunity to send a message to certain members of the MSM like The New York Times, The Washington Post, LA Times, etal. and especially to their editorial boards who continue in their attempts at shaping public opinion vis-a-vis the Cuba issue …
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Greg Sargent / tpmcafe.com:
CT-SEN: Mailing Touts Lieberman As Among "First" To Battle Bush On Social Security  —  Election Central has just obtained a political mailing which touts Joe Lieberman as "one of the first Senators to stand up to George W. Bush's dangerous plan to privatize Social Security."
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Cliff Schecter / The Huffington Post:
Two Degrees of Joe Lieberman
Discussion: LamontBlog and Booman Tribune
Washington Times:
Senate votes to fund the fence  —  The Senate did an abrupt about-face yesterday, voting overwhelmingly to begin paying for 370 miles of fencing and 500 miles of vehicle barriers on the U.S.-Mexico border, just three weeks after voting against the same spending.
CNN:
Bombs pound Beirut for second night  —  Hezbollah threatens to attack Tel Aviv as payback for airstrikes  —  BEIRUT, Lebanon (CNN) — Israel launched a second straight night of airstrikes on the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital on Friday, targeting an area known as a stronghold of Hezbollah militants.
Little Green Footballs:
New Lieberman Art at Daily Kos  —  Posted in the comments to one of several threads bashing Joe Lieberman today at Daily Kos, we find the following Photoshop illustrations from the "progressive" minds of the Kos Kidz.  —  This time with the always-popular homosexual slur theme.  (Hat tip: DM.
Media Matters for America:
O'Reilly blasts "smear merchants" and "vampires" criticizing Mel Gibson; Rivera smears Olbermann, Stewart, and Colbert … During a discussion on the August 2 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor with Geraldo at Large host and former Fox News correspondent Geraldo Rivera …
Hasani Gittens / New York Post:
OSAMA'S EVIL SPAWN IN LEB  —  IRAN UNLEASHES QAEDA HEIR TO AID HEZ  —  A son of Osama bin Laden has gone from Iran to Lebanon with the mission to organize terror attacks against Israel, it was reported yesterday.  —  Saad bin Laden, 27, one of the terror mastermind's eldest sons …
Fausta / faustasblog.com:
Reading between Granma's lines: a Yasser moment  —  In today's Granma, the official organ of the Cuban dictatorship, another statement from the Commander in Chief (n Spanish), dated August 1 but posted on August 2, … Interesting statement, indeed: … As Mario Loyola puts it,
Washington Post:
U.N. Talks Focus on Terms of Cease-Fire  —  Lebanon Sees No Solution to the Conflict Without a Role for Syria and Iran  —  Lebanon's acting foreign minister, Tarek Mitri, said Wednesday he doubts that his government would agree to invite a European-led intervention force into southern Lebanon …
Robert J. Samuelson / Washington Post:
A Reform That Worked  —  President Bill Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, better known as "welfare reform," on Aug. 22 of that year.  A decade later it stands as a rarity: a Washington success story.
 
 
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