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3:30 PM ET, November 4, 2006

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CNN:
Army Times to call for Rumsfeld's resignation  —  (CNN) — An editorial to be published Monday in independent publications that serve the four main branches of the U.S. military will call for President Bush to replace Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.  —  "Basically, the editorial says …
Army Times:
Time for Rumsfeld to go  —  "So long as our government requires the backing of an aroused and informed public opinion ... it is necessary to tell the hard bruising truth."  —  That statement was written by Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent Marguerite Higgins more than a half-century ago during the Korean War.
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vanityfair.com:
Neo Culpa  —  As Iraq slips further into chaos, the war's neoconservative boosters have turned sharply on the Bush administration, charging that their grand designs have been undermined by White House incompetence.  In a series of exclusive interviews, Richard Perle, Kenneth Adelman …
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Kevin Drum / Political Animal:   THE NEOCON REHABILITATION PROJECT....David Rose's Vanity Fair interview …
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Washington Post:
Anxious GOP Focuses on Not Losing Senate  —  Tight Races in Va., Mo. and Tenn. Seen as Crucial; House Outlook Remains Grim  —  Republicans entered the campaign's final weekend yesterday desperately trying to keep control of the Senate, with three or four tossup races likely to determine whether …
Discussion: TalkLeft
Washington Post:
U.S. Seeks Silence on CIA Prisons  —  Court Is Asked to Bar Detainees From Talking About Interrogations  —  The Bush administration has told a federal judge that terrorism suspects held in secret CIA prisons should not be allowed to reveal details of the "alternative interrogation methods" that their captors used to get them to talk.
Charles S. Johnson / Billings Gazette:
Poll: Burns, Tester in dead heat  —  HELENA - After months of campaigning and millions of dollars of advertising, it all comes down to this: Republican Sen. Conrad Burns and Democratic challenger Jon Tester are running dead even, a new Gazette State Poll shows.
Marcus Mabry / Newsweek:
Looking for a Lifeboat  —  A new NEWSWEEK poll shows that the GOP has lost more ground.  Will rallying the base stem a Democratic tide?  —  Jason Reed / Reuters  —  President Bush speaks to supporters in Iowa on Friday  —  As President George W. Bush jets across Red State America this weekend …
Discussion: TalkLeft and The Next Hurrah
Christopher Hitchens / Opinion Journal:
The Patrician and the Grunts  —  What we can learn from John Kerry's latest flub.  —  Regrettable though it might be for the United States military to become an untouchable "third rail" in American politics, there can be little sympathy for someone who keeps on brushing against that rail just to see what will happen.
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The Saturday Brunch  —  A special news digest from the staff of the Hotline.  —  A weekend from .... for the GOP?  Dems nervous about MT as poll shows dead heat .... Turnout hints .... Bill Clinton's only TV ad?  —  WHAT'S BREWING  —  This may be the closing weekend from hell for the White House.
Discussion: TalkLeft and Daily Kos
Ian Urbina / New York Times:
As Vote Nears, Parties Prepare for Legal Fights  —  A team of lawyers for the Democratic Party has been arguing with postal officials in Columbus, Ohio, trying to persuade them to process thousands of absentee ballots that have arrived with insufficient postage.
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Dan Boniface / KUSA-TV:
Accused pastor admits to buying meth
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William Bender / Delaware County Times:
Weldon decides to scale back TV advertising  —  Two days after launching a new advertisement, U.S. Rep. Curt Weldon has canceled some of his TV time, fueling speculation Friday he was throwing in the towel and saving money for a legal defense fund.  The campaign denied the rumors …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Media Matters for America:
"Media Matters"; by Jamison Foser  —  Media treat us to breathtakingly stupid feeding-frenzy over transparent GOP efforts to trick people into thinking John Kerry insulted the military and John Kerry is the Democratic Party  —  Last week, we asked the so-called "Gang of 500" …
Ali Bubba / Alabama Liberation Front:
Bob Ney: Moron of the Year  —  What a doofus!  He was dead busted more than a year ago, but waits until the Friday before Election Day to resign: … Now we can be sure that Tim Russert will be reminding voters all about Abramoff on Sunday.  Brilliant move, Bob.
 
 
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