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Nico / Think Progress:
Elizabeth Edwards Confronts Coulter During Live Television Appearance — Elizabeth Edwards confronted right-wing pundit Ann Coulter during a live interview on MSNBC this afternoon, charging that Coulter's "personal attacks" on former senator John Edwards and others were based on "the language of hate."
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Elizabeth Edwards confronts Ann Coulter — During Hardball's love in with Ann Coulter—Elizabeth Edwards, the wife of John Edwards called in and asked her to stop lowering the bar with personal attacks in our country's political debate. Coulter was not ready for this one... Download (3398) |
Logan Murphy / Crooks and Liars:
Ann Coulter Attacks John Edwards On Good Morning America — From an e-mail from John Edwards' Campaign: … As you'll see from the clip, the caption read "Republicans Losing Ground?" and we see just why that's happening when Annie opens her trap. Way to go, ABC...
John Aravosis / AMERICAblog:Ann Coulter wishes John Edwards were assassinated
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Michelle Malkin:
Shamnesty document drop: The "Clay Pigeon" amendment Update: Pounding Reid...and getting your RNC refund Update: House GOP passes anti-amnesty resolution — 10:43pm Eastern. Here's an easy-to-use, interactive video phone guide to the shamnesty senators who voted YEA on cloture today.
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Rick Klein / Political Radar:
Bush Calls Immigration Bill "Amnesty" — ABC News' Rick Klein reports: President Bush has spent a whole lot of time in recent months claiming that the immigration bill isn't "amnesty." — But in describing the measure Tuesday morning, an apparent slip of the tongue suggested otherwise …
National Review:Bad Vibe — Something about this immigration battle doesn't sit well.
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Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
Lugar Urges Quick Shift in Iraq War Strategy — After offering a bleak assessment of the Bush administration's strategy in Iraq, Senator Richard G. Lugar of Indiana, the ranking Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee, said today that he was urging lawmakers and President Bush …
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Bill Schneider / CNN:
Poll: GOP support on Iraq starts to waver … WASHINGTON (CNN) — Public support for the war in Iraq has fallen to a new low. Not only that, but Republican support is beginning to waver. — President Bush's troop buildup, or "surge," meant to quell the sectarian violence is now in place.
ABCNEWS:
Another GOP Senator Urges Pullout — Republican Voinovich Joins Lugar in Calling for a Shift in Strategy in Iraq — Sen. George Voinovich said Tuesday the U.S. should begin pulling troops out of Iraq, joining Richard Lugar as the second Republican lawmaker in as many days to suggest President Bush's war strategy is failing.
John Bresnahan / The Politico:Lugar gets a meeting with White House aides on Iraq
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blog.washingtonpost.com:
Leaving No Tracks — Sue Ellen Wooldridge, the 19th-ranking Interior Department official, arrived at her desk in Room 6140 a few months after Inauguration Day 2001. A phone message awaited her. — "This is Dick Cheney," said the man on her voice mail, Wooldridge recalled in an interview.
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James V. Grimaldi / Washington Post:
Judge Orders Prison Time for Ex-Interior Deputy — A federal judge rejected the tearful pleas of the former second-ranking official in the Interior Department yesterday and sentenced him to 10 months in prison for a felony conviction of obstructing a Senate investigation into corrupt lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
New York Times:
Poll Shows Liberal Ideas Gaining With Young People — Young Americans are more likely than the general public to favor a government-run universal health care insurance system, an open-door policy on immigration and the legalization of gay marriage, according to a New York Times/CBS News/MTV poll.
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Erik Schelzig / Associated Press:
Fred Thompson defends his lobbying past — NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Fred Thompson, a likely Republican presidential candidate, on Tuesday defended his work as a Washington lobbyist, telling The Associated Press that lobbying is an important part of life because "government's got their hands in everything."
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Hindrocket / Power Line:PUTTING A FACE TO A NAME
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a picture is worth a thousand posts — That is a horrible picture of VIvi!! — KARLA — RO, I AGREE WITH U ON MOSTLY EVERYTHING. BUT SOMEHOW I FOUND THE PICTURE OF VIVI DISTURBING. I DON'T EVEN LET MY CHILDREN PLAY WITH ANYTHING SIMILAR TO THAT. IT'S JUST A COMMENT. BUT OH WELL!!!!!!
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Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:
Shticko — Reason has a good review of the latest Michael Moore movie. Moore is both a practiced liar and not-too-smart. The implication that "free healthcare" run by the government is somehow immune to the laws of economics is classic Moore boilerplate:
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Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:AMERICA'S DRUG HABIT....No healthcare system is perfect …
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Sally Quinn / Washington Post:
A GOP Plan To Oust Cheney — The big question right now among Republicans is how to remove Vice President Cheney from office. Even before this week's blockbuster series in The Post, discontent in Republican ranks was rising. — As the reputed architect of the war in Iraq …
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Chris Good / The Hill:Cheney's office dismisses Dems' outrage on documents
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Dave Kilcullen / SWJ Blog:
Understanding Current Operations in Iraq — I've spent much of the last six weeks out on the ground, working with Iraqi and U.S. combat units, civilian reconstruction teams, Iraqi administrators and tribal and community leaders. I've been away from e-mail a lot, so unable to post here at SWJ …
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