memeorandum: Gonzales: I'm Staying For The Kids (Think Progress)

4:35 PM ET, March 22, 2007

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Edwards to Suspend Campaign — John Edwards is suspending his campaign for President, and may drop out completely, because his wife has suffered a recurrence of the cancer that sickened her in 2004, when she was diagnosed with breast cancer, an Edwards friend told The Politico.

Ben Smith / The Politico:

Getting It Wrong — A single, confident source close to John Edwards told me this morning that Edwards was "suspending his campaign," and I posted it to the blog at 11:06 this morning. — My source, and I, were wrong. — The source, whose anonymity I agreed to respect …

Discussion: TAPPED, Public Eye, FishBowlDC, All Spin Zone, Gallup Guru, On Deadline and The Daily Dish

MSNBC:

Wife's illness won't idle Edwards '08 campaign — 'Campaign goes on,' Democratic hopeful says despite return of wife's cancer — WASHINGTON - His wife's cancer has returned, but former North Carolina senator John Edwards says he'll continue his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, Associated Press, The Caucus, Senate 2008 Guru, The Democratic Daily, Donklephant, Balloon Juice, The Mahablog, Liberty Street and Michael P.F. van der Galiën

Mike Baker / Associated Press:

Edwards will continue presidential run — CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - John Edwards said Thursday his wife's cancer has returned, but said he will continue his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. — "The campaign goes on. The campaign goes on strongly," Edwards told reporters, his wife by his side.

Discussion: Skeptical Brotha, Simply Left Behind, GINA COBB and Blue Crab Boulevard

CNN:

Edwards: Wife's cancer returns, campaign goes on … CHAPEL HILL, North Carolina (CNN) — Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards said Thursday his wife's cancer has returned but his bid for the White House will go on. — "The campaign goes on," John Edwards said at a news conference outside …

Discussion: protein wisdom, PoliBlog (TM), QandO and Wizbang

New York Times:

Edwards to Continue '08 Bid Despite Wife's Cancer — John Edwards, the North Carolina Democrat, said today that his wife's cancer had returned, but that his bid for the presidency "goes on strongly." — "The campaign goes on, the campaign goes on strongly," he said, with his wife, Elizabeth, at his side.

Discussion: Prairie Weather and Taylor Marsh

Associated Press:

Edwards to continue campaign despite return of wife's cancer — CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards said today that his wife's cancer has returned and is no longer curable, but is treatable. — But he said he will continue his campaign. — "We are very optimistic about this," he said.

Jay Carney / Time:
Can Edwards' Campaign Just Go On? — "The campaign goes on.

Discussion: Firedoglake and TIME: Swampland

Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
Best Wishes for Elizabeth Edwards

Discussion: Chicago Tribune and Crooked Timber

Washington Post:

Political Spectacle — THE WHITE HOUSE and congressional Democrats have drawn deep lines in the sand over who will testify, and how, as Congress investigates the dismissal of eight U.S. attorneys. The stubbornness and overheated rhetoric on both sides threaten an unnecessary constitutional crisis …

Discussion: New York Times, Boston Globe, The Carpetbagger Report, CorrenteWire, Middle Earth Journal, Michael P.F. van der Galiën, TalkLeft and Matthew Yglesias

Julie Hirschfeld Davis / Associated Press:

Senate panel OKs subpoenas for key aides — WASHINGTON - A Senate panel, following the House's lead, authorized subpoenas Thursday for White House political adviser Karl Rove and other top aides involved in the firing of federal prosecutors. — The Senate Judiciary Committee decided …

Discussion: DownWithTyranny!, TIME: Swampland, All Spin Zone and CorrenteWire

William Branigin / Washington Post:
Panel Authorizes Subpoenas for Administration Officials

Discussion: New York Times

Susan Crabtree / The Hill:
E-mails on attorneys' firings could impact privilege case

Discussion: Washington Post

Sidney Blumenthal / Salon:

What Bush is hiding — In the U.S. attorney scandal, Alberto Gonzales gave orders, but he also took them — from Karl Rove, who plotted to turn the federal criminal justice system into the Republican Holy Office of the Inquisition. — Alberto Gonzales, right, and Karl Rove at the Jan. 31 …

Discussion: Firedoglake, Prairie Weather, Democratic Underground, The Moderate Voice and Norwegianity

Think Progress:

Gonzales: I'm Staying For The Kids — Attorney General Alberto Gonzales announced this morning: "I'm not going to resign. I'm going to stay focused on protecting our kids." Speaking before a Project Safe Childhood event, Gonzales told reporters he plans "to go up to the Congress …

Discussion: Los Angeles Times, The Carpetbagger Report, Political Radar and Shakespeare's Sister

Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
Prosecutor Says Bush Appointees Interfered With Tobacco Case

Discussion: USA Today, The Corner, The Carpetbagger Report, Prairie Weather, Shakespeare's Sister, The Mahablog, CorrenteWire, Macsmind, The Impolitic, TPMmuckraker, Patterico's Pontifications, Crooks and Liars, TalkLeft, The Heretik, Angry Bear and Arizona Republic

Robert D. Novak / Washington Post:

Was She Covert? — Republican Rep. Peter Hoekstra could hardly believe what he heard on television Friday as he watched a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing. Rep. Henry Waxman, the Democratic committee chairman, said his statement had been approved by the CIA director, Michael Hayden.

Discussion: Booman Tribune, Sweetness & Light, Cliff Schecter, The Lede, Firedoglake, Angry Bear, At-Largely, Brian Beutler, Macsmind and Think Progress

Emptywheel / Firedoglake: Toensing's Little Inaccuracies

Jerid / Buckeye State Blog:

Calling BS on De Vellis - It Wasn't Him — Phil claims he made it? I say don't buy everything you read. — Those who have been around the Buckeye 'sphere for a while know Mr. De Vellis well. One of the most unscrupulous Democratic staffers to come to Ohio in quite a while, creative and talented Phil is not.

Discussion: The Politico, Associated Press, The Huffington Post, Patrick Ruffini, NewsBusters.org, Riehl World View, Blog P.I., Blogometer, the david all group, The Swamp, MSNBC, Blue Crab Boulevard, Power Line, politburo diktat 2.0, No More Mister Nice Blog and The Moderate Voice

Washington Post:
Man Behind the Clinton Clip Worked for Obama's Net Strategists

Discussion: The Carpetbagger Report, Big Brass Blog and The Huffington Post

Ahmed Rashid / Washington Post:

Musharraf at the Exit — LAHORE, Pakistan — In the rapidly unfolding crisis in Pakistan, no matter what happens to President Pervez Musharraf — whether he survives politically or not — he is a lame duck. He is unable to rein in Talibanization in Pakistan or guide the country toward a more democratic future.

Discussion: Hot Air, Taylor Marsh, democracyarsenal.org and Michael P.F. van der Galiën

Anthony Man / Sun-Sentinel:

Florida moves to wipe out clout of smaller states with Jan. 29 presidential primary — Tallahassee - Hoping to muscle Florida into a pre-eminent role in picking next year's Democratic and Republican presidential candidates, the state House voted Wednesday to leapfrog almost all the other states …

Discussion: shotinthedark.info/wp … and Outside The Beltway