memeorandum: Rough road ahead for immigration bill (Washington Times)

10:40 AM ET, June 26, 2007

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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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blog.washingtonpost.com:

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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Logan Murphy / Crooks and Liars:
MSNBC's David Shuster Grills A Cheney Apologist

Discussion: The Sideshow

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.

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CNN:

Influential Republican 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."

Discussion: Chicago Tribune, The Moderate Voice, Indianapolis Star and Daily Kos

Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:

GOP Backers Offer Immigration Bill Change — Provision Would Require Illegal Residents to Return Home to Gain Legal Status — With a crucial test vote scheduled for today, Republican supporters of a sweeping immigration bill threw their weight yesterday behind a significant change …

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Nico / Think Progress:

Lugar: U.S. Must Reduce Military Presence In Iraq — Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN), the senior Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee, tonight announced his support for an immediate shift in Iraq policy, calling on President Bush "to downsize the U.S. military's role in Iraq and place …

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David Rogers / Wall Street Journal: Republicans Add Further Pressure On White House

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 …

Discussion: Outside The Beltway and Dr. Sanity

Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Inevitable: Some Democrats now calling for withdrawal from Afghanistan

Discussion: QandO

Hindrocket / Power Line: NEXT UP: U.S. OUT OF AFGHANISTAN!

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.

Discussion: The Heretik, Althouse and Washington Post

Joan Biskupic / USA Today:
Court's newcomers lead a measured push to the right

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Greg Stohr / Bloomberg: Alito Champions Business Causes in First Full High-Court Term

New York Times:
Three Bad Rulings

Discussion: Don Surber, Washington Post and ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

Agence France Presse:

Iranian forces crossed Iraqi border: report — Iranian Revolutionary Guard forces have been spotted by British troops crossing the border into southern Iraq, The Sun tabloid reported on Tuesday. — Britain's defence ministry would not confirm or deny the report, with a spokesman declining to comment on "intelligence matters".

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Tom Newton Dunn / The Sun:
Iran bombers attack Our Boys

Discussion: The Strata-Sphere, Washington Monthly and Vox Popoli

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 …

Discussion: Think Progress, Just a Bump in the Beltway and Unqualified Offerings

Jason Horowitz / New York Observer:

Rudy's New South Carolina Co-Chair — Rudy Giuliani named today as his South Carolina co-chairman Arthur Ravenel, the father of Rudy's former chair, South Carolina Treasurer Thomas Ravenel, who was indicted last week on a federal cocaine charge. — The elder Ravenel, aged 80 …

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Greg Sargent / Election Central:
Rudy's New SC Co-Chair Has History Of "Racially Charged" Remarks

Discussion: PBD and Comments From Left Field

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 …

Discussion: Carry on America, Sadly, No! and The Politico

Michael Luo / New York Times:

Romney to Tap Own Money for Campaign — Mitt Romney said yesterday he had once more turned to his personal fortune to help finance his presidential campaign and might do so again, suggesting that his fund-raising has fallen off since the first three months of the year.

Discussion: TIME and Oliver Willis

Erica Werner / Associated Press:

Feds Contact Ex-Doolittle Aide — California GOP Rep. John Doolittle's former chief of staff is providing documents to federal prosecutors investigating Doolittle and his wife in the Jack Abramoff influence-peddling scandal, the aide's attorney told The Associated Press on Monday.

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