memeorandum: Pork for Defense — WASHINGTON — Staring into the abyss … (Robert Novak/Real Clear Politics)

10:15 PM ET, October 12, 2006

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Washington Post:
U.S. Offers Draft Resolution on N. Korea

Discussion: QandO and AMERICAN FUTURE

Allahpundit / Hot Air:
U.S. resolution on North Korea neutered by Russia, China

Discussion: The Blotter, Ace of Spades HQ, BBC, Washington Post and New York Times

Chris Bowers / MyDD:

BREAKING—New House polls will show looming Democratic landslide — I usually despise blog posts with the word "BREAKING" in the title, in all caps, but in this rare case I actually am the person breaking the story, so I think it is justiifed. — The new Majority Watch from Constituent Dynamics will be released in a few minutes.

Discussion: Crooks and Liars, The Next Hurrah, The American Street, big_question, All Spin Zone, Democrats.com, NO QUARTER and ArchPundit

Larry J. Sabato / centerforpolitics.org:

A "Deep Blue Sea" in the 2006 Midterms? — Small Craft Advisory becomes Gale Warning for GOP — Just a few weeks ago, President Bush and the GOP appeared to be staging a remarkable comeback that would have enabled the Republicans to retain their congressional majorities.

Discussion: The Reaction

Washington Post:

Senate Report: Five Nonprofit Groups Sold Clout to Abramoff — Five conservative nonprofit organizations, including one run by prominent Republican Grover Norquist, "perpetrated a fraud" on taxpayers by selling their clout to lobbyist Jack Abramoff, Senate investigators said in a report issued today.

Discussion: TPMmuckraker, The Next Hurrah, MotherJones.com and Demagogue

NY Daily News:

Where I stand on Iraq — Sen. Clinton says how Bush went wrong and offers her prescription for the war — We have to deal with the Iraq we have, not the Iraq we wish we had. And the Iraq we have is a deteriorating, violent conflict that, if not technically a civil war, is about as close as you can get.

Discussion: QandO, Demagogue, Decision '08 and It Shines For All

The New Republic:

HOW ROVE TWISTED FOLEY'S ARM: — It seems increasingly clear that the GOP congressional leadership, eager for every safe incumbent in the House to run for re-election, looked the other way as evidence accumulated that Mark Foley had a thing for pages. Holding onto his seat became more important …

Discussion: Alabama Liberation Front, The Carpetbagger Report, All Spin Zone, Swords Crossed, Wonkette, Talking Points Memo, Shakespeare's Sister, MotherJones.com, WTF Is It Now?? and Middle Earth Journal

Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:

Times Editorial Page Editor Steps Down — Gail Collins, the first woman to run the editorial page of The New York Times, is stepping down Jan. 1 and will be succeeded by Andrew Rosenthal, the deputy editor of the page. Ms. Collins is taking a leave of absence from the paper to write a book …

Discussion: TalkLeft, The New Editor and The Original Blog

Associated Press:

Lawyer: Gov't workers got fake diplomas — SPOKANE, Wash. - At least 135 federal employees, including a White House staff member and National Security Agency employees, bought bogus online college degrees from a diploma mill, a lawyer in the case against the mill operators said.

Discussion: Shakespeare's Sister and Wonkette

Michael D. Shear / Washington Post:

Allen's Advisers Try Mute-Button Strategy — RICHMOND — Weeks after George Allen 's mouth got him into serious trouble, the senator's advisers have apparently decided that he should shut up. — At least when it comes to talking directly to the media, that is.

Discussion: Taylor Marsh and Amygdala

Ezra Klein:

Christopher Hitchens Has Gone Mad — The latest New Yorker has a (sadly offline) profile of Christopher Hitchens by Ian parker. It's not clear to me why Hitchens, whose day of influence has decidedly passed, merits a profile, but it's hard to argue when the material is this good.

Discussion: Eschaton, Riehl World View, Majikthise and Outside The Beltway