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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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A Strong Push From Back Stage — Air Force Two touched down at the Greenbrier Valley Airport in West Virginia on Feb. 6, 2003, carrying Vice President Cheney to the annual retreat of Republican House and Senate leaders. He had come to sell them on the economic centerpiece of President Bush's first term: a $674 billion tax cut.
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
The Cheese Stands Alone — "We'll make statements only today," President Bush announced to reporters yesterday as he sat with the Estonian president in the Oval Office. — No surprise there. Vice President Cheney's recent declaration that he is not part of the executive branch …
CNN:
Lugar urges Bush to change course on Iraq … WASHINGTON (CNN) — Republican support for President Bush's Iraq war policy suffered a significant crack Monday evening when Republican Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana urged the president to change course in Iraq "very soon."
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Washington Times:
Rough road ahead for immigration bill — Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times From left, Republican Sens. John Cornyn of Texas, Jeff Sessions of Alabama and Jim DeMint of South Carolina voiced their opposition to the immigration-reform bill yesterday on Capitol Hill.
David Rogers / Wall Street Journal:
Republicans Add Further Pressure On White House — WASHINGTON — President Bush faced a double barrel of dissent from Republicans who challenged the administration to change course on its two biggest initiatives at home and abroad: immigration policy and the Iraq war.
Roxana Tiron / The Hill:
Out-of-Afghanistan rumblings on the Hill — When they won control of Congress in November, Democrats pressed their case to withdraw troops from Iraq and refocus on Afghanistan, but some are growing impatient with U.S. operations in Afghanistan as well. — A few congressional Democrats …
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StrategyPage:
Taliban Admits Defeat — The Taliban has admitted defeat, in their own unique way. In recent media interviews, Taliban spokesmen announced a shift in emphasis to suicide bombings. The Taliban also admitted that the Americans had infiltrated their high command, which led to the death …
James Taranto / Opinion Journal:
The Truth About Guantanamo — Proposals to treat detainees as criminal defendants make a mockery of international humanitarian law. — Was it wishful thinking? On Thursday the Associated Press reported that, according to sources it did not name, "the Bush administration is nearing …
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New York Times:
Justices Loosen Ad Restrictions in Campaign Finance Law — The Supreme Court on Monday took a sharp turn away from campaign finance regulation, opening a wide exception to the advertising restrictions that it upheld when the McCain-Feingold law first came before it four years ago.
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Randal C. Archibold / New York Times:
28-Mile Virtual Fence Is Rising Along the Border — If the effort to catch people illegally crossing the border here in the southern Arizona desert is a cat-and-mouse struggle, the Homeland Security Department says it has a smarter cat. — It comes in the form of nine nearly 100-foot-tall towers …
Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
How the GOP Could Win — There are two ways to predict the winner of the 2008 presidential race: Check the polls or read some history. The polls tell you that with George Bush's approval ratings abysmally low; with the war in Iraq becoming increasingly unpopular; with the GOP lacking a dominant candidate …
Sudarsan Raghavan / Washington Post:
Iraqi Youth Face Lasting Scars of War — Conflict's Psychological Impact on Children Is Immense, Experts Say — BAGHDAD — Marwa Hussein watched as gunmen stormed into her home and executed her parents. Afterward, her uncle brought her to the Alwiya Orphanage, a high-walled compound nestled …
Walter Pincus / Washington Post:
Judge Discusses Details of Work On Secret Court — At 3 a.m. on Aug. 8, 1998, the day after the bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, the chief judge of a special court that supervises applications under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act was awakened at home in order …
White House:
President Bush Discusses Comprehensive Immigration Reform — Eisenhower Executive Office Building — THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all. Please be seated. Thanks for coming. Thanks for working on an immigration bill that's important for this country. I appreciate your efforts and I appreciate your time.
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Thomas B. Edsall / Huffington Post:
Fred Thompson: The Philip Morris Candidate — If Fred Thompson is elected president, he will be the first federally registered lobbyist to become Commander in Chief. Since his days as top minority counsel to the Senate Watergate Committee, Thompson has collected over $1 million in lobbying fees.
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