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Bob Geiger:
Reid To Force Senate Into All-Night Session Tuesday — Forcing his Republican colleagues to put up or shut up on the notion of an up-or-down vote, Senate Majority leader Harry Reid (D-NV) just moments ago announced that he will immediately file a cloture motion on the Reed-Levin troop redeployment bill and …
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Nico / Think Progress:
BREAKING: Reid To Force All-Night Filibuster On Iraq Withdrawal — Moments ago, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) announced that in response to conservative obstructionism, he plans to force war supporters to physically remain in the Senate and filibuster Iraq withdrawal legislation.
Fox News:
Reid Threatens to Keep Senate Up All Night, Republicans Yawn — WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has threatened to keep the Senate awake all night Tuesday to protest GOP blocking tactics on moves to compel U.S. troop withdrawals from Iraq. — Senate Republican leaders …
Chris Bowers / Open Left:
Memo to Senate Democrats: Force Republicans To Actually Filibuster — In an interview with the Young Turks on Friday, Senator Kent Conrad indicated that there was "growing consensus" in the Democratic Senate caucus to actually make Republicans stand in the well of the Senate and filibuster popular Democratic legislation.
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Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:Sen. Reid: Do Your Job And Make Them Stand And Filibuster
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Democrats.senate.gov: Reid: Republicans Must Allow Up-Or-Down Vote On Amendment To Change Course In Iraq
Taylor Marsh:
BREAKING NEWS: Joseph Wilson Endorses Hillary Clinton — The blogs got it first. … A conference call announcing the endorsement of Hillary Clinton by Joseph Wilson was just held with bloggers to hear the breaking news. This is a huge deal for Candidate Clinton and a big endorsement for her candidacy.
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Taylor Marsh / The Huffington Post:
BREAKING: Joseph Wilson Endorses Hillary Clinton — The blogs got it first. … A conference call announcing the endorsement of Hillary Clinton by Joseph Wilson was just held with bloggers to hear the breaking news. This is a huge deal for Candidate Clinton and a big endorsement for her candidacy.
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Greg Sargent / Election Central:
Joe Wilson Endorses Hillary! — Joe Wilson just endorsed Hillary during an ongoing conference call with liberal bloggers. — Wilson just said that "she is the one candidate in my judgment who understands the need to get America out of harm's way," and into a "political process."
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Steve Clemons / The Huffington Post:
Joe Wilson Endorses Hillary — Hillary Clinton's Director of Online Everything, Peter Daou, sent a tantalizing email today inviting a handful of political bloggers to a conference call with a mystery endorsement of the campaign. I called him and didn't press very hard as he preemptively and craftily said …
Jeralyn / TalkLeft:
Hillary's Latest Endorsement: Joseph Wilson — I just finished a blogger conference conference call with the Hillary Clinton campaign. — Hillary has picked up a big new endorsement: Former Ambassador Joseph Wilson. — Joe says he has known Hillary for over a decade and has spent a lot of time discussing Iraq with her.
Dan Froomkin / Washington Post:
How Bush Uses His Generals — President Bush says that he should be trusted on military issues because he listens to his commanders. But he has a tendency to celebrate his generals when they're providing him political cover — then stick a knife in their backs when they're no longer of any use to him.
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
More Departures From McCain '08 — In a widely expected move, Sen. John McCain's (R-Ariz.) press department resigned en masse today. — Communications director Brian Jones stepped down, along with deputies Matt David and Danny Diaz. Research director Brian Rogers and South Carolina …
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Ronpauldelaware / Delaware's Ron Paul Blog:
Military Favors Ron Paul Over McCain — The US Federal Election Commission has released the Selected Presidential Reports for the 2007 July Quarterly, and there are a few surprises. No surprise, of course, is that people in the armed services and veterans overwhelmingly support the Republican Party.
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Mike McPhee / Denver Post:
Troopers kill gunman in Capitol — State troopers shot and killed an armed man who attempted to enter Gov. Bill Ritter's office inside the state Capitol this afternoon. — The man, who claimed he was "the emperor," said he was going to take over the state government.
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CNN:
GOP senator to Rove: Bush legacy on the line in Iraq — WASHINGTON (CNN) — A Republican senator says he warned top White House aide Karl Rove that President Bush quickly needs to craft a workable plan to withdraw U.S. troops fom Iraq in order to salvage his legacy.
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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
UPDATE: Second Amendment case headed to Court — Local government officials in Washington, D.C., announced Monday they will appeal to the Supreme Court in a major test case on the meaning of the Second Amendment. The key issue in the coming petition will be whether the Amendment protects …
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Dan Gillmor / Center for Citizen Media:
Citizen Media: A Progress Report — In my keynote at last month's OhmyNews International Citizen Reporters' Forum in Seoul, I was asked to offer a year-on-year progress report on the state of citizen journalism. To sum up: — We've come a long way. There's a growing recognition and appreciation of why citizen journalism matters.
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