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8:30 AM ET, November 13, 2006

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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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Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Pelosi Endorses Murtha as Next Majority Leader  —  House Speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) endorsed Rep. John P. Murtha (D-Pa.) yesterday as the next House majority leader, thereby stepping into a contentious intraparty fight between Murtha and her current deputy, Maryland's Steny H. Hoyer.
Discussion: Captain's Quarters and Bull Moose
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 …
Karen Tumulty / Time:
After the Triumph, the Tribulations  —  Actually running Congress …
Discussion: The Caucus and Washington Post
Newdonkey / NewDonkey.com:
Pelosi and Hoyer  —  I did a post on Friday deploring the idea …
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias and Ezra Klein
New York Times:
Democrats Push for Troop Cuts Within Months  —  Democratic leaders in the Senate vowed on Sunday to use their new Congressional majority to press for troop reductions in Iraq within a matter of months, stepping up pressure on the administration just as President Bush is to be interviewed …
Discussion: TalkLeft
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John Heilprin / Associated Press:
Bush Faces GOP Ire Over Rumsfeld Timing
Discussion: Swords Crossed and The Next Hurrah
MSNBC:
MTP Transcript for Nov. 12
Discussion: Decision '08
Bill Gertz / Washington Times:
China sub secretly stalked U.S. fleet  —  A Chinese submarine stalked a U.S. aircraft carrier battle group in the Pacific last month and surfaced within firing range of its torpedoes and missiles before being detected, The Washington Times has learned.  —  The surprise encounter highlights …
Discussion: Iowa Voice and The Peking Duck
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.
Discussion: Daily Kos, TalkLeft and Taylor Marsh
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New York Times:
For Conservatives, It's Back to Basics  —  THE morning after the Republican drubbing in the midterm elections, Ken Mehlman, chairman of the party, headed to the weekly coalition meeting where limited government conservatives, Christian traditionalists and gun-rights groups gathered to plot strategy.
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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Reuters:
Bush approval drops, Democrats' goals backed -poll  —  Source: Reuters  —  Just days after Democrats took over Congress, Americans embraced their top goals and President George W. Bush's job approval rating slid to 31 percent, according to a Newsweek poll issued on Saturday.
Sonu Wasu / WATE-TV:
Knox Co. commissioner stands up to gunman's robbery attempt  —  POWELL (WATE) — A Knox County commissioner did not let a gunman rob his business.  Instead he pulled out his own gun.  —  The tense moments took place Saturday inside Greg "Lumpy" Lambert's car dealership, Advantage Auto Sales on Clinton Highway.
Discussion: Dr. Helen
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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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 …
Discussion: TalkLeft and Bark Bark Woof Woof
Robert D. Novak / Townhall.com:
Stupid party decides  —  WASHINGTON — The depleted House Republican caucus, a minority in the next Congress, convenes at 8 a.m. in the Capitol Friday on the brink of committing an act of supreme irrationality.  The House members blame their leadership for tasting the bitter dregs of defeat.
Discussion: Reason Magazine
Jon Meacham / Newsweek:
The Prodigal Returns  —  Supporting Cast: Bush 41's national-security team, in 1991.  From far left, Scowcroft, Gates, Cheney, Quayle, Baker, Bush and Powell.  —  George Herbert Walker Bush is a proud father; tears easily come to his eyes when he thinks of his children, all of them …
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.
Discussion: Pacific Views
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.
Discussion: Donklephant
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.
 
 
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israeltoday.co.il:
Annan updates Beilin on soldiers in Lebanon
Peter Baker / Washington Post:
Rove Remains Steadfast in the Face of Criticism
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Brian Murphy / Associated Press:
Christian population falls in Holy Land
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Telegraph:
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Democrats and Republicans both need to be careful with this …
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Leahy aims at restoring habeas corpus
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Police call for phone records of those in Gibbons case
John F. Burns / New York Times:
Could a New Strongman Help?  —  THE sight of Saddam Hussein haranguing …
Discussion: IraqPundit and JustOneMinute
Richard Creasy / Daily Mail:
Outrage in Iran as actress does a "Paris" and her sex video ends up on the net
 

 
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