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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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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Countdown to amnesty; Update: Bush calls bill "amnesty" (sort of); Update: Heart-ache, 64-35; Update: 15 16 Republicans switched from no to yes — The cloture vote's scheduled for 11:50. Updates will appear here throughout the day. Bush's people are optimistic — with good reason, says the boss, who has her ear to the ground.
Washington Times:Rough road ahead for immigration bill
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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.
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 …
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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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Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
AMERICA'S DRUG HABIT....No healthcare system is perfect, and the various European national systems each have problems of their own. Pointing that out is perfectly kosher in healthcare debates, but where does Andrew Sullivan get this kind of stuff from?
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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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David Rogers / Wall Street Journal:Republicans Add Further Pressure On White House
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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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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 …
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 …
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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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.
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.
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 …
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.
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