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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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Pajamas Media:
SECRET REID PLAN FOR IMMIGRATION BILL — Pajamas Media has learned that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid may be using an "unprecedented combination of legislative procedures" to push through the controversial Kennedy Immigration Bill - today! In fact, it may already be in progress by the time you read this.
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New York Times:Immigration Bill Clears Test Vote in Senate
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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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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...
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Ben Smith / The Politico:
Ann Coulter, Dem fundraising superstar — Is Ann Coulter good for anything other than Democratic fundraising any more? It's the only context in which I ever see her name. — In this video — which I got from the Edwards campaign's fundraising pitch — she's expressing the hope that Edwards is killed in a terrorist attack.
Associated Press:
GOP blocks union bill in Senate — WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans on Tuesday blocked a bill that would allow labor unions to organize workplaces without a secret ballot election. — Democrats were unable to get the 60 votes needed to force consideration of the Employee Free Choice Act …
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Steven Greenhouse / New York Times:Senate Republicans Block Labor Bill
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The Supreme Irony of Life
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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Jesse Lee / The Gavel:
Chairman Waxman Writes to White House Counsel Fielding on Security Violations — Chairman Henry Waxman of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, who produced the initial report on Vice President Cheney's disregard for rules governing the handling of classified information …
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TPMmuckraker, Talking Points Memo, Think Progress, Hullabaloo, Norwegianity and The Carpetbagger Report
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John Bresnahan / The Politico:
Voinovich calls for gradual withdrawal from Iraq — Following up on comments by Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.), Republican Sen. George Voinovich (Ohio) called today for President Bush to begin planning for a gradual withdrawal of U.S. combat forces from Iraq. — In a letter to President Bush …
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John Bresnahan / The Politico:Lugar gets a meeting with White House aides on Iraq
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CQ.com, Crooks and Liars, Associated Press, AMERICAblog, The Carpetbagger Report and The Next Hurrah
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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The Daily Howler:
AND WHY DIDN'T COHEN KNOW IT? At long last, Fitzgerald expressed his view—and the press corps failed to report it: — EVERYTHING HE NEEDED TO KNOW ABOUT WARMING SHE (SIC) LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN: We saw, too late, that our Brother Drum had issued a fatwa about that Post column.
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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 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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The Right's Field
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:
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.
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.
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