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Ed O'Keefe / ABCNEWS:
Kerry Calls Lieberman the New Cheney — Senator Labels Bush Iraq Policy 'Disaster,' Lieberman Bid 'Huge Mistake' — Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., blasted fellow a Democrat, Sen. Joe Lieberman, for continuing his bid in the Connecticut Senate race despite a narrow loss to newcomer Ned Lamont in the Democratic primary earlier this month.
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Ctblogger / ConnecticutBLOG:
Help me count Joe Lieberman's lies — Oh my goodness. There is only one word to describe Joe Lieberman interview from this morning and it's D-E-S-P-E-R-A-T-E. — Did you see Joe Lieberman on Face the Nation this morning? This will go down as one of the most distorted lying sack-of-crap interviews Lieberman has ever done to date.
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DownWithTyranny!
Matt Stoller / mydd.com:
Dismantling the Liebermachine — I find it quite ironic that those best positioned to understand the implications of Lieberman's downfall are the most apt to describe the race as unimportant or meaningless instead of the momentus event it really is. I would throw into this TPM reader DK …
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The Mahablog
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Digby / Hullabaloo:
Stepping Into The Breach — Back in 2000, I had a standard argument for Naderites who claimed "there's not a dime's worth of difference between them" because they both are beholden to big business. I always said that you had to look at the coalitions that formed both parties and as long …
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Sisyphus Shrugged
Matthew Kalman / San Francisco Chronicle:
Hezbollah night-vision gear was from Britain, Israel says — It's believed to be an export to Iran in drug-fighting effort — (08-20) 04:00 PDT Kiryat Shemona, Israel — Israeli intelligence officials have complained to Britain and the United States that sensitive night-vision equipment recovered …
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Will Lester / Associated Press:
Sen. Hagel says GOP has lost its way — WASHINGTON - Republicans have lost their way when it comes to many core GOP principles and may be in jeopardy heading into the fall elections, Sen. Chuck Hagel (news, bio, voting record), R-Neb. says. — Hagel, a possible presidential candidate in 2008 …
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Macsmind
TwinCities.com:
Minnesota's muddled election scene makes forecasts hazardous — Minnesota's electoral politics are deeply muddled as we head into the high election season next month. — The national political environment favors the Democrats, but the state's political situation benefits the Republicans.
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Power Line
Ryan Lizza / New York Times:
The YouTube Election — AUGUST, usually the sleepiest month in politics, has suddenly become raucous, thanks in part to YouTube, the vast videosharing Web site. — Last week, Senator George Allen, the Virginia Republican, was caught on tape at a campaign event twice calling a college student …
Dr. Steven Taylor / PoliBlog:
Hewittian Hysteria — Writes Hugh Hewitt on his Townhall blog: … These kinds of statements vex me, just as blanket statements that voting for Republicans is some sort of vote to punish the poor or a vote for racism or hatred, or authoritarianism or whatever.
New York Post:
MOMENT OF TRUTH — ISLAMO-FASCIST TERROR COULD TRIGGER A BRUTAL — WESTERN RESPONSE — IN the wake of Israel's strategic setback in Lebanon, where's the Middle East headed? (Hint: The road sign doesn't read "Age of Aquarius"). — Powerful emotions intoxicate all sides.
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
Blogging lawprofs, go back to your law review articles. — Over at Balkinization, lawprof Larry Tribe writes a long-winded post defending Judge Anna Diggs Taylor's opinion in ACLU v. NSA. He thinks we bloggers have gone too far criticizing her, when there's so much reason to criticize the administration.
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Crooks and Liars, Unclaimed Territory, Power Line, Liberty Street and The Volokh Conspiracy
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Rick Moran / Right Wing Nut House:
IRAQ: QUIT OR COMMIT — I've been putting off writing this post for a couple of months. Not out of any fear of blogospheric consequences although it would pain me if my honest opinion drove people away from this site. But I realize many readers who have been following my evolving position …
Ben Stein / New York Times:
Looking for the Will Beyond the Battlefield — IT'S been a bitter month or so. — Mighty Israel, the redeemer of faith in what free men and women can do with arid desert if they are motivated, redeemer of faith that maybe there is a place for the Jews as a sovereign people and technological superpower …
Peter Burnet / BrothersJudd Blog:
SHORT MEMORIES — Our foreign policy is just plain wrong (Menzies Campbell, The Observer, August 20, 2006) … How easy it is to forget what the world looked like exactly five years ago in August, 2001. A huge and contiguous swath of the globe from Lebanon through Syria, Iraq, Iran …
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