memeorandum: "The List" (of Gay GOP Aides on the Hill); Hubris on Bloggingheads.tv (David Corn)

9:25 PM ET, October 4, 2006

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"The List" (of Gay GOP Aides on the Hill); Hubris on Bloggingheads.tv — There's a list going around. Those disseminating it call it "The List." It's a roster of top-level Republican congressional aides who are gay. — On CBS News on Tuesday, correspondent Gloria Borger reported …

Discussion: Political Animal, Talking Points Memo, Hot Air, TalkLeft, Riehl World View, Confederate Yankee, Classical Values, Outside The Beltway, Ace of Spades HQ, Pajamas Media and PoliPundit.com

ABCNEWS:

Hastert Was Warned About Foley Two Years Ago, GOP Aide Says — House Speaker's Spokesman Disputes Kirk Fordham's Claim That He Previously Alerted Hastert's Office About Foley's Behavior — Despite claims by senior congressional aide Kirk Fordham that he notified House Speaker Dennis Hastert's office …

Discussion: TPMmuckraker, Shakespeare's Sister, The Blue State, Daily Kos, A Blog For All, AMERICAblog and Andrew Sullivan

Andrew Taylor / Associated Press:

Congressman questions what Hastert knew — WASHINGTON - A third figure in the page scandal threatening to the envelop House Speaker Dennis Hastert suggested Wednesday the speaker knew of an inappropriate e-mail that Rep. Mark Foley (news, bio, voting record) sent to a Louisiana boy before the matter became public.

Discussion: Mercury News, The Huffington Post, CNN, Hullabaloo, The Carpetbagger Report, Booman Tribune, TPMmuckraker, Political Animal, Sunlight Foundation and True Blue Liberal

Gay Patriot:

More Foley Fallout: The Gay GOP Witchhunt Begins — **UPDATE BELOW** Welcome readers from Instapundit, The Corner and Mary Katharine Ham! — From liberal blogger David Corn (of The Nation and "outing Valerie Plame" fame) comes this disturbing development in the Foley saga. … Full citizen?

Discussion: AMERICAN DIGEST, Blue Crab Boulevard, The Real Ugly American.com, Townhall.com Blog's … and Classical Values

Wild Bill / Passionate America:

Meet Jordan Edmund One Mark Foley Instant Messanger — Jordan Edmund is 21 years old — Mark Foley is a scumbag! Mark Foley is a scumbag! Mark Foley is a scumbag! — Now that that is out of the way I will reveal how I (and a few others) discovered Jordan Edmund was one of the former house pages …

Discussion: The Jawa Report, Euphoric Reality, The Swamp, Wizbang, Sean Gleeson, Roger L. Simon, Daily Pundit, The Volokh Conspiracy, Ms Underestimated, Little Green Footballs and MotherJones.com

CNN:

A statement released by Kirk Fordham, former senior aide to ex-Rep. Mark Foley and Rep. Tom Reynolds — "I've learned within the last few hours that unnamed sources have purported that I intervened on behalf of Congressman Foley to prevent a page board investigation. This is categorically false.

Discussion: Andrew Sullivan

RADAR:

THE BOGUS BLOG BEHIND FOLEY'S FALL — ABCNews.com brought Mark Foley's boy-chasing to national attention, but it wasn't the first website to flog the story. That dubious honor belongs to StopSexPredators, a pseudo-vigilante blog filled with plagiarized, hastily-assembled posts …

Discussion: PoliPundit.com, The Strata-Sphere and Decision '08

Hotline On Call:

Fordham Resigns; Blames Democrats — Update — Why did Kirk Fordham resign today? — Accounts vary. According to a senior Republican official in Washington, Fordham, in the spring of 2006, promised Rep. John Shimkus, the chairman of the page board as well as a staff member …

Discussion: TPMmuckraker

Washington Post:
Foley Lawyer Cites Alcohol, Childhood Abuse

Discussion: Los Angeles Times, New York Times, ABCNEWS, The Caucus, Hyscience, The Blotter and Blinq

Niles Lathem / New York Post:
SICK NEW FOLEY E-MAILS

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, Hotline On Call, The Carpetbagger Report, Wonkette, The Blue State, Crooks and Liars, Shakespeare's Sister, Taylor Marsh, Sisyphus Shrugged, Don Surber, The Daily Politics and Daily Kos

Shailagh Murray / Washington Post:
The Open And Closeted Lives of a Gay Congressman

Discussion: Palm Beach Post, The Blotter and TIME

Brian Ross Reports / The Blotter:
Forced Out Staffer Issues Statement

Discussion: First Draft

John Cochran / ABCNEWS: Pols Debate Future of Hastert

Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Mark Foley and the unmasked Republican Party

Discussion: Crooks and Liars, USA Today, Firedoglake, NewsBusters.org, Dick Polman's American Debate, CBS News, Democrats.com, The Mahablog, PunditGuy, Norwegianity, The Carpetbagger Report, Left in the West and Comments From Left Field

Gateway Pundit:
Get Your Lawyers... Foleygate Scandal About to Bust Open!

Discussion: The Political Pit Bull, WorldNetDaily, Confederate Yankee, Flopping Aces, The Strata-Sphere, Blog P.I., Fausta's blog, In Search Of Utopia, Little Green Footballs, The Moderate Voice, Macsmind, Ace of Spades HQ, USS Neverdock, The American Thinker and Blue Crab Boulevard

Minneapolis Star Tribune:

Powell: Staying course in Iraq isn't enough — The United States and allies can not resolve the current sectarian violence in Iraq, former Secretary of State Colin Powell said today during a lecture in Minneapolis. — "Only the Iraqi people can resolve this," Powell said.

Discussion: Taylor Marsh, Hullabaloo, Outside The Beltway, The Heretik, NewsHog, DownWithTyranny!, The Agonist and The Blue State

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Matt Stoller / MyDD:
Colin Powell Pins Bush, Lieberman on Iraq

Discussion: Norwegianity and Think Progress

Michelle Malkin:

Banned on YouTube — Back in February, you may remember, I cobbled together a little mini-movie called "First, They Came" inspired by the Mohammed Cartoon riots. It's a simple slideshow highlighting the victims of Islamic violence over the years. We posted it at YouTube a while ago. No problems.

Discussion: Euphoric Reality, Townhall.com Blog's …, NewsBusters.org, Hyscience and La Shawn Barber's Corner

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Kos Irhabi / The Jawa Report:

YouTube Suspending Anti-Jihad Accounts — The YouTube Jihad continues. Michelle's video account has been suspended. We just received notice from YouTube that the account for Sout al Kuffar is in also in jeopardy of being suspended: — Just so there is no mistake …

Discussion: democraticunderground.com and Hot Air

Jordan / Confined Space:

Bush Labor Board Takes Organizing Rights Away From Millions Of Nurses And Other Workers — This afternoon, George W. Bush's National Labor Relations Board, in a party-line 3-2 decision, took away bargaining rights for millions of American nurses and other workers.

Discussion: Firedoglake, The Agonist and Bring it On!

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Dale Russakoff / Washington Post:

Some Workers Change Collars — NLRB Rules Some Nurses Are Supervisors, a Potential Blow to Unions — The National Labor Relations Board ruled yesterday that nurses with full-time responsibility for assigning fellow hospital workers to particular tasks are supervisors under federal labor law …

Discussion: Los Angeles Times, Political Animal and Outside The Beltway

Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:

Tequila Mockingbird — JUSTICE SCALIA OPENS THE 2006 TERM WITH A BANG. — My cabdriver seems to be taking pains to stick to the back streets on his way to the Supreme Court this morning; he's steering clear of the streets that bound the Capitol Building, as if all the sex/influence peddling …

Discussion: Redstate and Hot Air

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Bill Mears / CNN:
Scalia's tequila remark launches new term

Discussion: Hot Air, biz.yahoo.com and Redstate

Susan Jones / CNSNews:

Bible-Spouting Group Plans to Picket Amish Funerals — (CNSNews.com) - A Kansas-based group that says "God hates fags" plans to picket the funerals of the Amish girls killed by a disturbed man in Lancaster County, Pa. — The Westboro Baptist Church — described as a hate group …

Discussion: Townhall.com Blog's …, Ms Underestimated and Wizbang

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Mark Scolforo / Associated Press:
Gunman Said He Molested Girls Long Ago

Discussion: Euphoric Reality, Hot Air, Ace of Spades HQ and Clayton Cramer's BLOG

Kirk Johnson / New York Times:

Man Sues Secret Service Agent Over Arrest After Approaching Cheney and Denouncing War — A Colorado man who was arrested in June on harassment charges after he approached Vice President Dick Cheney to denounce the war in Iraq filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesday accusing a Secret Service agent of civil rights violations.

Discussion: The Carpetbagger Report, The Horse's Mouth, Cato-at-liberty and Pharyngula

Austin Bay / StrategyPage:

Al-Qaida's Narrative of Doubt — Several declassified al-Qaida documents — one discovered after the June 2006 air strike that killed al-Qaida's Iraqi emir, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi — strongly suggest al-Qaida's leaders fear they are losing the War on Terror. — On Sept. 18, Iraqi National …

Discussion: Dr. Sanity and Secular Blasphemy

Zogby:

Reuters/Zogby Poll: Dems Hold Leads in Races for Key House GOP Seats as Republicans grapple with sex scandal — Democrats hold leads in races for 11 out of 15 key Republican-held House seats, the first in a series of Reuters/Zogby tracking polls shows. This sets the stage for a full-tilt battle …

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Booman Tribune and Taegan Goddard's …

William H. Pryor Jr / Wall Street Journal:

'Neither Force Nor Will, But Merely Judgment' — Recently some leaders of the bench and bar — including, on this page last week, retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor — have decried what they describe as unprecedented threats to the independence of the judiciary. I respectfully disagree.