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David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Idea of Rapid Withdrawal From Iraq Seems to Fade — In the cacophony of competing plans about how to deal with Iraq, one reality now appears clear: despite the Democrats' victory this month in an election viewed as a referendum on the war, the idea of a rapid American troop withdrawal is fast receding as a viable option.
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Robin Wright / Washington Post:
U.S. Considers Ending Outreach to Insurgents — The Bush administration is deliberating whether to abandon U.S. reconciliation efforts with Sunni insurgents and instead give priority to Shiites and Kurds, who won elections and now dominate the government, according to U.S. officials.
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Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
This Is Realism? — Iran and Syria Won't Be Riding to Our Rescue — Now that the "realists" have ridden into town gleefully consigning the Bush doctrine to the ash heap of history, everyone has discovered the notion of interests, as if it were some new idea thought up by James Baker and the Iraq Study Group.
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A national party no more? — The Republicans are in danger of being confined to the South — THREE years ago Zell Miller, then a Democratic senator for Georgia, published an anguished book entitled "A National Party No More: The Conscience of a Conservative Democrat".
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Jonathan Singer / MyDD:
The GOP, a Regional Party of the South? — This week The Economist's America columnist Lexington asks an interesting question about today's Republican Party: Is the GOP a "national party no more?" … Lexington adds a few notes of caution to the piece, highlighting the fact that neither …
Associated Press:
Aides: Pelosi taps Reyes to head intelligence committee … WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi has chosen a Border-Patrol-agent-turned-congressman to lead the House intelligence committee, according to congressional aides. — Democratic leaders are contacting congressional …
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Greg Simmons / Fox News:
REYES VOWS TO TACKLE IRAQ, WIRETAPS AS NEW HEAD OF HOUSE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE — WASHINGTON — Texas Rep. Silvestre Reyes has been chosen to head the House Intelligence Committee when the Democrats take control of Congress in January as his party tries to boost oversight of the intelligence community and get U.S. troops out of Iraq.
Michael Rubin / Lebanon Daily Star:
Arabs may one day miss George W. Bush — The Middle East cheered the Republican defeat in the recent American congressional elections. The official Syrian daily Al-Baath labeled the elections a "painful blow," while the Saudi daily Al-Watan called for a "wise" policy from Washington …
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MSNBC:
Report: Italian tests positive for deadly toxin — Academic had lunch with ex-spy on day he fell ill; autopsy under way … LONDON - An Italian security expert who met with a former KGB agent the day the ex-spy fell fatally ill with radiation poisoning has also tested positive for the substance, British media reported Friday.
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Has Obama become the front-runner for '08? — Ian blogged this yesterday but I got a solid e-mail from a friend about this this morning so I'm going to post on it again. My politically savvy pal advises us to prepare for full-blown Obamamania: … He's hip, he's hot, he's not Hillary. (Or is he?)
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Flip / Suitably Flip:
MSM Finishing School — [Scroll for updates] — A long-time feeder to the mainstream media, Columbia's journalism school is currently training a new crop of grad students that are already cutting corners and flouting the rules just like the pros do it.
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Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
The Tom Friedman disease consumes Establishment Washington — (updated below) — Someone e-mailed me several days ago to say that while it is fruitful and necessary to chronicle the dishonest historical record of pundits and political figures when it comes to Iraq, I deserve to be chastised …
Carrie Johnson / Washington Post:
Report on Corporate Rules Is Assailed — Investor groups sounded alarms yesterday after it emerged that a foundation with ties to a pair of well-heeled business donors and an executive battling civil charges had funded a controversial new report seeking to slash corporate regulation.
John Donnelly / Boston Globe:
Faith groups urge cuts to AIDS fund — Allege opposition to Christian efforts — LAKE FOREST, Calif. — Some leading Christian conservatives, angry over the Global Fund to Fight AIDS's promotion of condoms and its perceived lack of support for faith-based programs, are pushing Congress …
Wretchard / The Belmont Club:
But deliver us from evil — Westhawk goes directly to one of the key drivers of instability in Iraq. America's military success against the former rulers of Iraq has disrupted the very basis of its former stability. Sunni dominance. Westhawk quotes a Washington Post article which describes …
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
McCain Courts Crucial Support of Governors — Last anyone checked, Senator John McCain of Arizona is not — and has never been — a governor. — But no matter. Mr. McCain turned up on Thursday morning at the Doral Golf Resort and Spa here for a guerrillalike visit to the annual meeting of the Republican Governors Association.
Mark Morford / San Francisco Chronicle:
Sex Will Make You Go Blind — Single? Under 30? You are in grave danger. Your government says so. Please, stop laughing — I think I get it now. — The latest pitiable GOP plan, from what I can tell, goes something like this: To make it all so absurd, to make the remaining Bush …
Charles Hurt / Washington Times:
Democrats to offer permanent tax cut — Democrats have long attacked President Bush for the historic tax cuts he ushered through Congress during his first term and have promised to reverse at least some of them. — But among their top priorities when they take over Congress next month is passing a permanent tax cut of their own.
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