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Noam N. Levey / Los Angeles Times:
Approval of Congress lowest in a decade — Only about a quarter of Americans approve of how it's doing its job, a poll shows; most see 'business as usual.' — WASHINGTON — Fueled by disappointment at the pace of change since Democrats assumed the majority on Capitol Hill …
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Congress Hits 10-Year Low Popularity Rating but GOP Gets No Boost; Time for a New Party? — It's taken roughly six months for the Democratic congressional majority elected last November to dissipate the public support that put it in power. The latest Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg survey finds …
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New York Times:
In Senate Vote, G.O.P. Fights Off Gonzales Rebuke — Senate Republicans blocked a symbolic no-confidence vote against Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales on Monday evening, dismissing the measure as an irrelevant gesture, though Democrats had hoped it might intensify pressure on Mr. Gonzales to resign.
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Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Senators Block Vote on Gonzales — The Senate yesterday rejected a bid to conduct a vote of no confidence in Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, as Republicans declined to defend the embattled presidential confidant but rejected the effort as a political stunt.
Eli Lake / New York Sun:
Military May Pull the Plug On Musharraf — WASHINGTON — As a political crisis boils in Pakistan, American analysts both inside and outside the government are expressing new doubts that President Musharraf will be able to hold onto power through the summer.
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Spencer Ackerman / TPMmuckraker:
Some in U.S. Intelligence See Musharraf on His Way Out
Some in U.S. Intelligence See Musharraf on His Way Out
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Alan Sepinwall / NJ.com All TV:
David Chase speaks! — What do you do when your TV world ends? You go to dinner, then keep quiet. Sunday night, "Sopranos" creator David Chase took his wife out for dinner in France, where he's fled to avoid "all the Monday morning quarterbacking" about the show's finale.
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Robert Stacy McCain / Washington Times:
'Wall' speech set Reagan apart — SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — Comparing current politicians to Ronald Reagan is a "terrible mistake," said the man who wrote Mr. Reagan's famous "tear down this wall" speech 20 years ago. — "Figures of the magnitude of Ronald Reagan only come along a couple …
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Judges Say U.S. Can't Hold Man as 'Combatant' — The federal appeals court in Richmond, Va., ruled yesterday that the president may not declare civilians in this country to be "enemy combatants" and have the military hold them indefinitely. The ruling was a stinging rejection …
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Joe Klein's stirring defense of Lewis Libby — It is difficult to recall a single episode which has been more revealing of our political culture than the collective Beltway horror over the plight of the poor, maltreated and persecuted (and convicted felon) Lewis Libby.
Washington Post:
Clinton Owes Lead in Poll To Support From Women — The consistent lead that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York has maintained over Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois and others in the race for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination is due largely to one factor: her support from women.
Charlie Savage / Boston Globe:
Disaffected conservatives set a litmus test for '08 — Want vow to curb presidential power — WASHINGTON — A new political group recently asked Mitt Romney to promise not to wiretap Americans without a judge's approval or to imprison US citizens without a trial as "enemy combatants."
John Solomon / Washington Post:
Mueller Often Uses FBI Jet Bought for Counterterrorism — When the FBI asked Congress this spring to provide $3.6 million in the war spending bill for its Gulfstream V jet, it said the money was needed to ensure that the aircraft, packed with state-of-the-art security and communications gear …
Amy Schatz / Wall Street Journal:
YouTube Fuels — and Foils — Campaigns — WASHINGTON — For months, the presidential wannabes have been churning out serious, talking-to-the-camera videos for YouTube. So far, viewers prefer the spontaneous, unauthorized, less flattering fare. — Traffic on YouTube related …
Chicago Tribune:
Carefully crafting the Obama 'brand' — From his first days in the U.S. Senate, the Illinoisan has followed a strategy envisioning a White House bid — WASHINGTON — One evening in February 2005, in a four-hour meeting stoked by pepperoni pizza and grand ambition, Sen. Barack Obama …
Michelangelo Signorile / The Gist:
High-profile Tancredo presidential campaign staffer outed — Tyler Whitney, the webmaster for the right-wing antigay Colorado Republican Rep. Tom Tancredo's presidential campaign, has been outed by the Michigan gay paper Between the Lines. I had reporter Todd Heywood on the show today.