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President Bush Discusses Iraq War Emergency Supplemental — THE PRESIDENT: Today I'm joined here at the White House by veterans, family members of people serving in combat, family members of those who have sacrificed. I am honored that they have joined me here today.
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CNN:
House passes spending bill with Iraq deadline … WASHINGTON (CNN) — The House of Representatives on Friday voted 218-212 to approve a spending bill that includes a firm deadline — August 31, 2008 — for combat troops to leave Iraq. — President Bush, who already has said he would veto the bill …
Anne Flaherty / Associated Press:
House OKs Timetable for Troops in Iraq — WASHINGTON (AP) - A sharply divided House voted Friday to order President Bush to bring combat troops home from Iraq next year, a victory for Democrats in an epic war-powers struggle and Congress' boldest challenge yet to the administration's policy.
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Austin Bay Blog, Facing South, Roger L. Simon, Taylor Marsh, Wake up America, Wizbang, PoliPundit.com and Clayton Cramer's BLOG
MSNBC:
House approves 2008 deadline for war pullout — Bush calls it 'political theater' and vows to veto bill — WASHINGTON - A sharply divided House voted Friday to order President Bush to bring combat troops home from Iraq next year, but the president reiterated his vow to veto the bill …
William Branigin / Washington Post:
House OKs Timetable for Troops in Iraq — $124B Emergency Bill Sets Binding Benchmarks for Progress in Iraq — The House of Representatives today passed a $124 billion emergency spending bill that sets binding benchmarks for progress in Iraq, establishes tough readiness standards …
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Captain's Quarters, Booman Tribune, Obsidian Wings, INTEL DUMP, The Strata-Sphere, TalkLeft and Reason Magazine
Anne Flaherty / Associated Press:
House Dems more confident on Iraq vote
House Dems more confident on Iraq vote
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MSNBC:
Documents: Gonzales OK'd firing attorneys — Attorney general had been said not to have been closely involved — Politicians in both major parties have called for Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' resignation amid the furor over the firings of U.S. attorneys.
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The Daily Background, Discourse.net, Macsmind, PoliBlog (TM), At-Largely, Hoffmania! and Oliver Willis
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New York Times:
Gonzales Met With Advisers on Ouster Plan — Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales and senior advisers discussed the plan to remove seven United States attorneys at a meeting last Nov. 27, 10 days before the dismissals were carried out, according to a Justice Department calendar entry disclosed Friday.
Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
Gonzales Aide to Senate Staff: Nothing to See Here
Gonzales Aide to Senate Staff: Nothing to See Here
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Firedoglake
John W. Dean / FindLaw's Writ:
New Developments in the U.S. Attorney Controversy: — Why Bush Refuses to Allow Karl Rove and Harriet Miers to Testify Before Congress, and What Role New White House Counsel Fred Fielding May Play — At the outset of this column — which discusses Bush's new White House Counsel …
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Beth Nolan / Washington Post:
Executive Overreach — The White House Is Taking Privilege Too Far — The Framers of our Constitution envisioned that in the exercise of their authorities, the two political branches would assert their prerogatives against each other. A process of negotiation and accommodation between the branches is what one would expect.
Giles Smith / Times of London:
Hostage fears over troops seized by Iran — Richard Beeston, Diplomatic Editor, and James Bone in New York — Britain's crisis with Iran deepened last night after Tehran justified seizing 15 British servicemen by claiming that they had strayed into Iranian territorial waters "illegally".
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Alexandra Olson / Associated Press:
Iran's President Cancels U.N. Appearance — UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has canceled his trip to New York to address the U.N. Security Council before a vote on whether to impose further sanctions against his country for refusing to stop enriching uranium, the Foreign Ministry spokesman said Friday.
Kevin Drum / Political Animal:
THE MYTH OF THE PERMANENT MAJORITY....The Pew survey I linked to yesterday showed some pretty stunning reversals for the Republican Party, and I think it's worth taking a minute to deconstruct what the numbers show. The party ID catastrophe, in which Republicans have plummeted from a 43-43 tie …
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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
washingtonpost.com Goofs on Headline — Technical Glitch Leads to 51-Second Edwards Error — Well, The Washington Post's Web site screwed up the John Edwards story, too. — For 51 seconds. — And it was an accident, of the cringe-inducing variety. — The Democratic presidential candidate …
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FishBowlDC, NewDonkey.com, zero.newassignment.net …, The Democratic Daily and On Deadline
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Real Cities:
Justice's new U.S. attorneys have partisan records — WASHINGTON - Under President Bush, the Justice Department has backed tougher state voter identification laws and steered U.S. attorneys toward investigating voter fraud _ policies that critics say have been intended to suppress Democratic votes.
Jennifer Loven / Associated Press:
White House Spokesman to Undergo Surgery — WASHINGTON (AP) - Presidential spokesman Tony Snow is undergoing surgery Monday to remove a growth in his lower abdomen, a procedure he said was being done "out of an aggressive sense of caution" because he had colon cancer two years ago.
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Crooks and Liars, Captain's Quarters, shotinthedark.info/wp …, THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS, The Corner and Wonkette
Mary Katharine Ham / Townhall.com:
HamNation: Better Living Through Lefty Activism — Today, an instructional video on how to love the earth the lefty way. You know, through high-volume carbon offsets and killing polar bears. And, what with Gore in town refusing to take any binding Earth-saving pledges, it's a good week for this lesson.