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12:35 PM ET, May 23, 2007

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Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
Today's Must Read  —  An ideologue, yes, but an ideologue acting on orders or on her own?  —  When Monica Goodling goes before the House Judiciary Committee this morning, that will be the central question.  —  No one can read the two profiles of Goodling in The Los Angeles Times …
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Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
Monica Goodling Testimony, Part II
Discussion: JURIST
Lara Jakes Jordan / Associated Press:
Goodling denies major role in firings
Discussion: MSNBC and PoliBlog (TM)
Former Gonzales Aide / Washington Post:
Officials Describe Interference by Former Gonzales Aide
Discussion: Law Blog and Think Progress
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Democrats Pull Troop Deadline From Iraq Bill  —  Congressional Democrats relented Tuesday on their insistence that a war spending measure set a date for withdrawing American combat troops from Iraq.  Instead, they moved toward a deal with President Bush that would impose new conditions on the Iraqi government.
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Shailagh Murray / Washington Post:
Democrats Relent On Pullout Timetable  —  Democrats gave up their demand for troop-withdrawal deadlines in an Iraq war spending package yesterday, abandoning their top goal of bringing U.S. troops home and handing President Bush a victory in a debate that has roiled Congress for months.
David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
DEMOCRATS FIND ETHICS OVERHAUL ELUSIVE IN HOUSE  —  House Democratic leaders pushing a promised lobbying overhaul are facing resistance from balky lawmakers and fending off accusations that a prominent member is flouting new ethics rules.  —  The Democratic leaders were forced to scrap …
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Elizabeth Williamson / Washington Post:
Democratic Leaders Find House Ethics Bill a Tough Sell
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
Michael Brady / Keeping the Majority Accountable …:
Freshmen fail first ethics test
Discussion: Washington Post and The Hill
New York Times:
Senate Votes to Keep Temporary Worker Program  —  A comprehensive immigration bill survived a significant test on Tuesday as the Senate voted to keep a provision that would let hundreds of thousands of temporary foreign workers enter the country each year.  —  If the guest worker program …
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Elana Schor / The Hill:
Guest-worker program dodges its first bullet
Nicole Gaouette / Los Angeles Times:
Guest worker program survives
Discussion: Washington Post
Michael Cooper / New York Times:
Political Memo: Giuliani Above the Fray as McCain and Romney Skirmish  —  The contrast could hardly be more striking.  Senator John McCain and Mitt Romney have been mixing it up on the trail with increasing intensity ever since their feisty exchange at the last Republican debate.
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Washington Post:
McCain Turns Focus To His Fundraising  —  As the Senate debate over immigration raged yesterday, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) had breakfast, brunch and lunch fundraisers in Houston before heading north to gather money at a supporter's home in Dallas and, later, from young professionals at a gourmet Mexican restaurant.
Discussion: The Politico and The Caucus
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Ed Henry / CNN:
White House: Bin Laden wanted Iraq as a new base … WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Bush on Tuesday declassified intelligence showing in 2005 Osama bin Laden planned to use Iraq as a base from which to launch attacks in the United States, according to White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe.
Alan Cooperman / Washington Post:
Survey: U.S. Muslims Assimilated, Opposed to Extremism  —  Unlike Muslim minorities in many European countries, U.S. Muslims are highly assimilated, close to parity with other Americans in income and overwhelmingly opposed to Islamic extremism, according to the first major, nationwide random survey of Muslims.
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New York Post:
WOLFOWITZ AND GAL PAL SPLIT UP  —  PAUL Wolfowitz has really had a bad couple of weeks.  He not only lost his job, he lost his girlfriend, too.  —  Wolfowitz, one of the architects of the Iraq war, was pushed out as president of the World Bank over a controversial pay and promotion package …
Discussion: TBogg and Carry on America
Joe Strupp / Editor and Publisher:
McClatchy's D.C. Bureau Claims It's Barred From Defense Secretary Plane  —  NEW YORK Staffers at McClatchy's Washington, D.C., Bureau — one of the few major news outlets skeptical of intelligence reports during the run-up to the war in Iraq — claims it is now being punished for that coverage.
Discussion: mediabistro.com
Ann Scott Tyson / Washington Post:
New Strategy for War Stresses Iraqi Politics  —  U.S. Aims to Oust Sectarians From Key Roles  —  Top U.S. commanders and diplomats in Iraq are completing a far-reaching campaign plan for a new U.S. strategy, laying out military and political goals and endorsing the selective removal …
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Boehner: Immigration Bill Is "Piece Of S**t"  —  House Minority Leader John Boehner, speaking to a private gathering of Republican activists last night, called the Senate's immigration compromise bill a "piece of s**t" but said that he had promised President Bush earlier in the day that he would let his teeth …
Henry Fountain / New York Times:
Female Shark Reproduced Without Male DNA, Scientists Say  —  A hammerhead shark that gave birth in a Nebraska aquarium reproduced without mating, a genetic analysis shows.  —  This form of asexual reproduction, called parthenogenesis, has been found in other vertebrate species, including some snakes and lizards.
Discussion: AMERICAN DIGEST
 
 
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