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President Bush Makes Remarks on the Emergency Supplemental — THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. I've just had a good meeting with Secretary of Defense Bob Gates, and General Pete Pace, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Secretary Gates and General Pace updated me on the deployment of American reinforcements to Iraq.
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Zeina Karam / Associated Press:
Pelosi Rebuffs Criticism of Syria Visit — DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi toured Damascus on Tuesday, the highest- ranking American politician to visit Syria since relations began to deteriorate four years ago. President Bush criticized the trip, saying it sends mixed signals to President Bashar Assad.
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Greg Sargent / Horses Mouth:
Okay, here's a depressing new twist to the big news orgs' irksome tendency in recent days to report the White House's criticism of Dem Speaker Nancy Pelosi's trip to Syria while omitting any mention of the similar trip taken by House Republicans. — At today's press conference …
Jonathan Singer / MyDD:
John Kerry: McCain Approached Me About Joining Dem Ticket in 2004 — Note: You can now read the rest of the interview with Senator Kerry here. — On Monday afternoon I had the chance to speak with Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, the Democratic Party's nominee for President in 2004.
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Deacon / Power Line:
DID MCCAIN APPROACH KERRY? — The left-wing blog MyDD reports that, according to John Kerry, John McCain's staff approached him (not the other way around) about the idea of McCain running with Kerry in 2004. Kerry said reports that McCain's approached the Dems about switching parties
Faiz / Think Progress:
Memo To Bush: 57 Days — The US News Political Bulletin reported this morning that "White House strategists are now pulling out all the stops to blame the Democratic majority in Congress for a potential delay in funding the Iraq war. ... White House aides have adopted a new gambit …
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Shailagh Murray / Washington Post:Reid Backs Iraq War-Funds Cutoff
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Anne Flaherty / Associated Press:Bush criticizes Democrats over war funds
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Think Progress:
Gingrich: When I Said 'Language Of Living In The Ghetto,' I Meant Hebrew (Or Maybe Yiddish) » — Newt Gingrich said this past weekend that the U.S. should abolish bilingual education so that people aren't speaking "the language of living in a ghetto."
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Jeffrey Feldman / FRAMESHOP:
Newt Needs Night School — GINGRICH TALKS JEWISH "GHETTO," GETS HISTORY WRONG — After being caught in the racist slur of calling Spanish a "ghetto" language, Newt Gingrich tried to correct the record. "What I meant is," said Gingrich speaking to FOX News' Alan Colmes …
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Crooks and Liars
Jennie Matthew / Agence France Presse:
US White House hopeful shops in Baghdad market — BAGHDAD (AFP) - Republican presidential hopeful Senator John McCain (news, bio, voting record) boasted about shopping and chatting to Iraqis in a constantly bombed Baghdad market on Sunday, adamant that the US troop surge is paying off.
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Mark Moller / Cato-at-liberty:
Supreme Court to EPA: Hurry Up and Wait? — Lots of news outlets have been describing the Supreme Court's opinion in Massachusetts v. EPA along the following lines: "Supreme Court says global warming is bad; tells EPA to fix the problem." — Is that right? Not really.
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Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:Justices Say E.P.A. Has Power to Act on Harmful Gases
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Sky News:
New Iran Hostage Pictures — Iran has released fresh pictures of the 15 British sailors and marines being held captive in the country. — The first picture, apparently a still taken from a video, showed six sailors sitting in blue and red tracksuits on a carpet in a room.
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Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
Police Log Confirms FBI Role In Arrests — Group Detained, Questioned During D.C. War Protest — A secret FBI intelligence unit helped detain a group of war protesters in a downtown Washington parking garage in April 2002 and interrogated some of them on videotape about their political …
CNN:
Hospital: Woman dead after CNN Center shooting … ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) — A woman has died according to Atlanta's Grady Hospital following a shooting Tuesday at the CNN Center complex, in what Atlanta police called a "domestic situation." — The woman, who witnesses said appeared to be pregnant …
Lolita C. Baldor / Associated Press:
Stretched army sends troops back to Iraq — WASHINGTON - For just the second time since the war began, the Army is sending large units back to Iraq without giving them at least a year at home, defense officials said Monday. The move signaled how stretched the U.S. fighting force has become.
Eric Boehlert / Media Matters for America:
Can The Note save itself? — The unexpected personnel notice posted by ABC News on March 21 no doubt raised eyebrows among the Beltway's political and media elite. The network announced that Mark Halperin, the high-profile and plugged-in director of ABC's political unit and author …
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Daily Kos
Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
Dems Press Gonzales on Justice Aide — For perhaps the first time in history, a Justice Department official has invoked the Fifth Amendment — and remains in her position at the Department. In a letter to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales today, Senate Judiciary Chairman Pat Leahy (D-VT) …
Eric Kleefeld / Election Central:
McCain Camp Recruits Nixon's Jew-Counter As Finance Co-Chair — John McCain's campaign has just put out a press release announcing that GOP money-man Fred Malek has signed on as national finance co-chair. That's a very important, high-level gig. — There's only one problem, though …
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The Nation
Matthew Yglesias:
Arguing About Nothing — Andrew Sullivan proclaims the following from Greg Mankiw to be the quote of the day: … I clicked the link and read the whole Mankiw post to see if there was some specific controversy over public policy to which this parable was supposed to speak, but there isn't.
Greg Sargent / Horses Mouth:
Via Joan Walsh, NBC's Andrea Mitchell is confirming her scoop that (a) moderate Republican Senators don't think the "surge" will work but temporarily supported it anyway; and (b) will withdraw their support for the war if the "surge" doesn't show progress by late August.
Peter Eisner / Washington Post:
How Bogus Letter Became a Case for War — Intelligence Failures Surrounded Inquiry on Iraq-Niger Uranium Claim — It was 3 a.m. in Italy on Jan. 29, 2003, when President Bush in Washington began reading his State of the Union address that included the now famous — later retracted …
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