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11:25 AM ET, April 20, 2007

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New York Times:
Gonzales v. Gonzales  —  If Attorney General Alberto Gonzales had gone to the Senate yesterday to convince the world that he ought to be fired, it's hard to imagine how he could have done a better job, short of simply admitting the obvious: that the firing of eight United States attorneys was a partisan purge.
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Washington Post:
Senators Chastise Gonzales at Hearing  —  Members of His Own Party Pile On as Attorney General Defends Firings  —  Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales came under withering attack from members of his own party yesterday over the dismissals of eight U.S. attorneys, facing the first resignation demand …
Discussion: TPMmuckraker
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Maybe Gonzales Won't Recall His Painful Day on the Hill  —  Alberto Gonzales's tenure as attorney general was pronounced dead at 3:02 p.m. yesterday by Tom Coburn, M.D.  —  The good doctor, who also happens to be a Republican member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, made this clinical judgment …
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
The Media, The Killer & The Video  —  Did Alberto Gonzales really testify yesterday?  —  I suspect he did—I saw some clips on the evening news of even Republican senators chiding him—but it was hard to tell during the day, when Virginia Tech once again dominated the cable coverage.
Washington Post:
Gonzales Testifies Before Senate Panel  —  SEN. PATRICK J. LEAHY, D-VT. CHAIRMAN: Good morning.  —  This week, like all Americans, we join in mourning the tragic killings at Virginia Tech on Monday.  The innocent lives of students and — before we start, I noticed the people holding outside.
New York Times:
Gonzales Endures Harsh Session With Senate Panel  —  Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, trying to salvage his job, endured withering questioning on Thursday from Senate Judiciary Committee members who expressed grave doubts about his truthfulness and judgment in the firing of federal prosecutors.
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
On a Very Hot Seat With Little Cover and Less Support
Discussion: Discourse.net
Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
Al, the President's Man
Discussion: TPMmuckraker
Washington Post:
Roughed Up on the Hill  —  YESTERDAY'S "reconfirmation hearing" …
Discussion: TPMCafe blogs
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Gonzales Flops In Senate Hearings And Loses Republican Support
Discussion: Salon and Kiko's House
Nancy A. Youssef / Real Cities:
Training Iraqi troops no longer driving force in U.S. policy  —  WASHINGTON - Military planners have abandoned the idea that standing up Iraqi troops will enable American soldiers to start coming home soon and now believe that U.S. troops will have to defeat the insurgents and secure control of troubled provinces.
Joe Bel Bruno / Associated Press:
Stocks Up on Earnings; Dow Nears 13,000  —  Stocks Advance Sharply After Google Profit Beats Expectations, Dow Pushes Toward 13,000  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street bounded higher Friday after Google Inc. led a series of stronger earnings reports that propelled the Dow Jones industrials further …
Mike Soraghan / The Hill:
Three days after guilty plea, Griles ties the knot  —  Two Bush administration officials who have been linked in scandal are now linked in wedlock.  —  The union of former Deputy Interior Secretary J. Steven Griles and Sue Ellen Wooldridge could have implications for the investigation into Griles's ties to ex-lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
Mike Madden / Arizona Republic:
Renzi steps down from House panel after raid on firm  —  WASHINGTON - Rep. Rick Renzi stepped down temporarily from the House Intelligence Committee on Thursday, after the FBI raided his family's business in connection with an ongoing federal investigation.  —  Agents took documents …
Discussion: The Caucus and Cliff Schecter
Paul Blumenthal / Sunlight Foundation blogs:
12 Senators Left!  Keep Calling.  —  Major media outlets are reporting that the Senator in question is definitely a Republican.  Since we know that the Senator is a Republican we can narrow down our search to the remaining 12 Republican Senators.  Help find the anonymous Senator and call these 12 Senators today.
Discussion: Firedoglake and Washington Post
Ian Bishop / New York Post:
HILLARY'S POPULARITY RATINGS GO NEGATIVE  —  A new national poll shows Hillary Rodham Clinton's favorable ratings sinking like a stone, and her negatives soaring - a terrifying trend for a campaign desperately trying to convince voters she's not too polarizing to be president.
Discussion: Power Line
Kenneth Green / canada.com:
Canada joins anti-Kyoto bloc  —  This week's announcement by the Canadian government — that it may join a U.S.-led coalition focused on voluntary emissions cuts — could be part of a global shift away from Kyoto's binding targets.  —  In a somewhat surprising development, Canada …
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
Rick Perlstein / commonsense.ourfuture.org:
Rick Perlstein's blog  —  Last year I attended a major conference of conservative intellectuals and activists at Princeton University as the token liberal.  There I heard Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention say that the Democratic Party ostracizes all pro-life Democrats.
 
 
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