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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 …
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National Review:
Bad Vibe — Something about this immigration battle doesn't sit well. For all the bitterness of our political battles, there's at least the sense that the government responds to the drift of public opinion. The Republicans in Congress turned into big spenders and the war in Iraq went poorly.
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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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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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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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Think Progress:
Obama Smeared As Terrorist Again On Fox News — This past weekend, Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) delivered a speech commemorating the 50th anniversary of his Protestant denomination, the United Church of Christ. In the speech, Obama argued that faith in the United States has been "hijacked" …
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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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Eric Moskowitz / Concord Monitor:
Joe's N.H. supporters still loyal — Lieberman allies distraught at loss — August 13. — hen Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman lost the Democratic Senate primary last week and decided to run as an independent, his old supporters in New Hampshire were watching.
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Eric Kleefeld / Election Central:Swett Keeps Running From Lieberman — Donates To Maine's Tom Allen
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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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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 …
Erik Schelzig / Associated Press:
Fred Thompson defends lobbying record — 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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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 …
Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
Cage Match: Did Griffin Try to Disenfranchise African-American Voters in 2004? — For years, Tim Griffin, the former aide to Karl Rove who's been at the center of the U.S. attorney controversy, has been dogged by allegations that he was a part of a 2004 scheme to block African-Americans in Florida from voting.
Michael R. Gordon / New York Times:
For G.I.'s in Iraq, a Harrowing Day Facing a Trap — The enemy was a phantom who never showed his face but transformed a neighborhood into a network of houses rigged to explode. — And the soldiers from Comanche Company's First Platoon confronted this elaborate and deadly trap.
Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
Bending Congressional Ears — Back in September of 2006, around the time that the provisions gutting habeas were passed in the Senate, former Reagan Justice official Bruce Fein was interviewed on The Newshour on PBS in a discussion opposite David Rivkin, who served as the designated Bush Administration policy promoter.
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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Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Web chatter vows GOP convention protests — Some groups have given a glimpse of plans for the GOP convention in St. Paul. But authorities are circumspect about their veracity. — Anarchists and antiwar organizations preparing for the Republican National Convention are planning dozens …
CQ.com:
Other GOP Senators Embrace Lugar's Call for Change of Course in Iraq — Republican senators expressed support today for Indiana Sen. Richard G. Lugar's call for an immediate change of course in Iraq. — Lugar, the top Republican and former chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee …
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