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John Bresnahan / Roll Call:
Pelosi Puts Weight Behind Murtha in Leader Bid — Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), in line to become Speaker in January, is throwing her support to Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) in the race for Majority Leader, a move that will be an early test of her influence and will weigh heavily on Murtha's contest …
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Josephine Hearn / The Hill:
Pelosi backs Murtha for majority leader — Speaker-in-waiting Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) threw her support behind Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) for majority leader Sunday, giving a significant boost to Murtha in his race against Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.). — "Your strong voice for national security …
Tabassum Zakaria / Reuters:
Democrats say will push for Iraq withdrawal — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats, who won control of the U.S. Congress, said on Sunday they will push for a phased withdrawal of American troops from Iraq to begin in four to six months, but the White House cautioned against fixing timetables.
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Kansas City Star:
Shift on Syria, Iran discussed
Shift on Syria, Iran discussed
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John / AMERICAblog:
Democrats and Republicans both need to be careful with this …
Democrats and Republicans both need to be careful with this …
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This Modern World
Jon Meacham / Newsweek:
The Prodigal Returns — Supporting Cast: Bush 41's national-security team, in 1991.
The Prodigal Returns — Supporting Cast: Bush 41's national-security team, in 1991.
Hindrocket / Power Line:
SAY IT AIN'T SO, W! — Tomorrow President Bush will meet …
SAY IT AIN'T SO, W! — Tomorrow President Bush will meet …
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MSNBC:
MTP Transcript for Nov. 12 — MR. TIM RUSSERT: Our issues this Sunday: The voters send a loud and clear message to the White House, and give the Democrats control of the House and the Senate for the first time in 12 years. What now for the Republicans? We'll ask a man who is positioned …
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Decision '08
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Shailagh Murray / Washington Post:
Lieberman a Wild Card in Iraq Policy — Senator Says Bipartisan Effort Is Needed for a Successful End — Voters seemed to be speaking loudly and clearly about Iraq last week when they elected war critics such as Bernard Sanders of Vermont, Sherrod Brown of Ohio and James Webb of Virginia to the Senate.
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Associated Press:
Lieberman refuses to close door on switching parties — HARTFORD, Conn. —Sen. Joe Lieberman on Sunday repeated his pledge to caucus with Senate Democrats when the 110th Congress convenes in January, but refused to slam the door on possibly moving to the Republican side of the aisle.
Richard Wolffe / Newsweek:
The Architect's Faulty Specs — Rove believed in his metrics. He miscalculated. How did Bush's guru get the numbers so wrong? — President Bush knew he was in for a rough night. As he settled down in front of the TV in the White House residence to watch the election results, the numbers were already grim.
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Douglas J. Feith / Washington Post:
The Donald Rumsfeld I Know — Much of what you know about Donald Rumsfeld is wrong. — I worked intimately with Rumsfeld for four years, from the summer of 2001 until I left the Pentagon in August 2005. Through countless meetings and private conversations, I came to learn his traits …
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Agence France Presse:
Iran TV broadcasts 'US ship spy plane footage' — Iran's Arabic language television station broadcast footage it claimed showed a US aircraft carrier cruising in Gulf waters it said was taken by an unmanned Iranian drone. — The brief minute-long film, which was shown …
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Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:
An Uneasy Alliance — AMID all the post-election bliss evident within the constellation of bloggers and online Democratic activists known as the "netroots" last week, there was a note of anger and disappointment. Ned Lamont, the antiwar Connecticut businessman who defeated Senator Joseph …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
True Blue Populists — Senator George Allen of Virginia is understandably shocked and despondent. Just a year ago, a National Review cover story declared that his "down-home persona" made him "quite possibly the next president of the United States." Instead, his political career seems over.
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Joe Klein / CNN:
The realists take charge in Washington — Editor's note: The following is a summary of this week's Time magazine cover story. — (Time.com ) — This was a big deal. Certainly, it was the end of George W. Bush's radical experiment in partisan governance.
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Associated Press:
Baghdad's morgues so full, bodies being turned away — BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — Baghdad's morgues are full. — With no space to store bodies, some victims of the sectarian slaughter are not being kept for relatives to claim, but photographed, numbered and quickly interred in government cemeteries.
Richard Creasy / Daily Mail:
Outrage in Iran as actress does a "Paris" and her sex video ends up on the net — She has been dubbed Iran's Paris Hilton after appearing in a sex video on the internet. — But while Paris's exploits propelled her to worldwide stardom, Zahra Amir Ebrahimi faces ruin, a public lashing and even a jail term.
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Video: The Simpsons salute the lazy and uneducated — Another morale-booster from Groening and company. How pitiful is it that Cracked magazine did a funnier job of lampooning John Kerry than the Simpsons did with the U.S. military? — With good episodes increasingly hard to come by …
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Timothy Egan / New York Times:
Fresh Off the Farm in Montana, a Senator-to-Be — "He's a small farmer from the homestead,'' a friend says of Jon Tester. " That's absolutely who he is. When he joins the United States Senate in January, big Jon Tester — who is just under 300 pounds in his boots …
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