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8:20 PM ET, November 4, 2006

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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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Weekly Standard:
Yikes!  —  Kristol, Barnes, Labash, Continetti, Matus, Last, and the rest give their midterm election predictions.  —  Senate: 48 (R), 52 (D)  —  House: 192 (R), 243 (D)  —  Dark Horse: Anti-immigration stance backfires with Republican meltdown in Arizona and Colorado.  —  Fred Barnes
Discussion: Taylor Marsh
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Dean Barnett / Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog:
I'm Bursting!!  —  My homeys at the Weekly Standard have published their election predictions, and they range from dire to calamitous.  Meanwhile, I'm merrily skipping about Soxblog Manor (in a completely manly way, mind you) whistling a happy tune.  I expect Tuesday to be an extremely successful day for the Republican Party.
Discussion: Right Wing Nut House
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 …
New York Times:
G.O.P. Glum as It Struggles to Hold Congress  —  The battle for Congress rolled into a climactic final weekend with Republican Party leaders saying the best outcome they could foresee was losing 12 seats in the House.  But they were increasingly steeling themselves to the loss of at least 15 …
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Washington Post:
Anxious GOP Focuses on Not Losing Senate
Discussion: MyDD and TalkLeft
Robert Kuttner / Boston Globe:
Nervous excitement builds for Democrats  —  IF YOU'RE not a big admirer of George W. Bush, you are going into Election Day feeling more than a little schizophrenic.  Red Sox fans know the queasy feeling, around mid-August.  —  On the one hand, it sure looks like This Could Be The Year.
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Michael Graham / The Natural Truth:
"Either WE Win Or YOU Cheated"
Jane Sutton / Reuters:
Interrogation is "optional," Guantanamo chief says  —  GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE (Reuters) - Guantanamo prisoners are no longer forced to undergo interrogation, including 14 "high-value" prisoners who include the accused mastermind of the September 11 attacks, the detention camp commander said.
Discussion: Say Anything
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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.
Discussion: Free Frank Warner and Wonkette
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John F. Burns / New York Times:
For U.S. and Top Iraqi, Animosity Is Mutual  —  The cycle of discord and strained reconciliation that has broken into the open between Iraq's Shiite-led government and the Bush administration has revealed how wide the gulf has become between what the United States expects from the Baghdad government …
Alan Cooperman / Washington Post:
Minister Admits to Buying Drugs and Massage  —  The Rev. Ted Haggard, the Colorado minister who resigned Thursday as president of the National Association of Evangelicals, admitted yesterday that he bought methamphetamine and received a massage from a male prostitute.
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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.
J. Kingston Pierce / The Reaction:
"Take these lies and make them true somehow"  —  If this video doesn't get you fired up and ready to vote next Tuesday, November 7, I don't know what will.  It recounts the rise and fall of George W. Bush and the disasters he's caused—and ignored—during his almost six years in the White House.
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.
John Lewandowski / SantorumBlog:
John Kerry's Fake Apology  —  *Updated - see below* … -John Kerry, October 30, 2006 … -John Kerry, October 31, 2006  —  "I sincerely regret that my words were misinterpreted to wrongly imply anything negative about those in uniform and I personally apologize to any service member, family member or American who was offended."
Editor and Publisher:
'NYT' Sunday Preview: Ahmad Chalabi Says, 'The Real Culprit is Wolfowitz'  —  NEW YORK So, Ahmad Chalabi, what went wrong in Iraq in the war you helped to sell?  "The Americans sold us out," he tells longtime Baghdad reporter Dexter Filkins in a lengthy cover story in this coming Sunday's New York Times Magazine, reviewed by E&P.
 
 
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Digby / Hullabaloo:
Children's Crusade  —  I suppose a lot of people have already written …
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