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How low can the Republicans go? — Americans are divided over whether Hastert should resign — Come hell or high water-ran the conventional wisdom-Republicans could rely on two issues to win elections: the war on terror and values. Then came Mark Foley.
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A Tale of Two Ads — The real choice this November. … —TV ad on behalf of Patty Wetterling, — Democratic candidate in Minnesota's 6th Congressional District … —TV ad on behalf of Nancy Johnson, — Republican candidate for reelection in Connecticut's 5th Congressional District
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Staffer Cites Earlier Role by Hastert's Office — House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert's chief of staff confronted then-Rep. Mark Foley about his inappropriate social contact with male pages well before the speaker said aides in his office took any action, a current congressional staff member …
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Who is Scott Palmer? — He is Speaker Hastert's chief of staff, which makes him the key player in the what-did-Hastert-know-and-when-did-he- know-it drama. Scott Palmer has issued a statement flatly denying that Kirk Fordham, Mark Foley's former chief of staff, warned him that Foley …
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Pam's House Blend
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A True Blowout is Now Possible
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PoliBlog, Balloon Juice, The Moderate Voice, The Reaction, Let Freedom Ring, GOP Bloggers, Crunchy Con and Washington Post
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A Democratic Blowout? — Stuart Rothenberg is going further …
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Swing State Project
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Rove Aide Linked To Abramoff Resigns — A top aide to White House strategist Karl Rove resigned yesterday after disclosures that she accepted gifts from and passed information to now-convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff, becoming the first official in the West Wing to lose a job in the influence-peddling scandal.
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Danish TV shows cartoons mocking Prophet Mohammad —Text+COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Danish state TV on Friday aired amateur video footage showing young members of the anti-immigrant Danish Peoples' party engaged in a competition to draw humiliating cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad.
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Warning Shots Fired Near Korean Border — SEOUL, South Korea — Gunfire rang out Saturday along the heavily armed no man's land separating the divided Koreas, as regional tensions mounted in anticipation of communist North Korea's plan to test its first atomic bomb.
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Attorney: Feds, page to talk about Foley correspondence — ENID, Oklahoma (CNN) — A former congressional page who was reportedly told in an instant message from former Rep. Mark Foley to "strip down and get relaxed" likely will talk to federal agents investigating the scandal next week, his lawyer said Friday.
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In House Races, More G.O.P. Seats Seen at Risk — Tim Mahoney, left, is the Democrat running for former Representative Mark Foley's seat in Florida. Republicans chose Joe Negron to take Mr. Foley's place, but he faces an uphill battle. — At least five more Republican Congressional seats …
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Busted! Harold Ford Jr. - Life Imitates Lawyer — Democrat Harold Ford Jr. is found guilty! — Ford Impersonates a lawyer on CNN with Wolf Blitzer — (20 seconds) — Harold Ford Jr. says, "I'm a lawyer. You would expect all of those who are interviewed to be truthful and candid and forthcoming."
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Blue Crab Boulevard
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Ford called self a lawyer but did not pass bar exam
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Gateway Pundit
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Security Barriers of New York Are Removed — They started appearing on Manhattan streets immediately after September 11: concrete and metal barriers in front of skyscrapers, offices and museums. Some were clunky planters; others were shaped artfully into globes.
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Update on the Federal Budget Deficit — The Mark Foley micro-scandal can't change the fact that the American economy is going great guns. The 2006 budget deficit figures were just released, and the deficit is not only getting better, it is now relatively small by historical standards.
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Brave heroes hounded out — and TOM REILLY — MUSLIM yobs who wrecked a house to stop four brave soldiers moving in after returning from Afghanistan sparked outrage last night. — The house in a village near riot-torn Windsor had BRICKS thrown through windows and was DAUBED with messages of hate.
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Castro Is Reported to Have Cancer — U.S. intelligence reports now say the Cuban leader's condition appears terminal, government officials tell TIME — Ever since President Fidel Castro was sidelined for what was said to be abdominal surgery last July, Cuban officials have maintained …
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"Media Matters"; by Jamison Foser — The Most Trusted Name in News? — Ten years ago tomorrow, Fox News slithered onto the scene, beginning its assault on logic and reason and fact and decency and, basically, all that is great about America. A maniacal scheme hatched …
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Lamont's Lull — In a record week, futures in Ned Lamont continued to plummet in the political market. Big board polls put the Connecticut Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate falling sharply behind incumbent independent Joseph Lieberman. Most legit polls that insiders and serious observers look …