memeorandum: Reid To Force Senate Into All-Night Session Tuesday (Bob Geiger)

8:15 PM ET, July 16, 2007

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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 …

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.

Discussion: BobGeiger.com, The Daily Background, The Next Hurrah, The Carpetbagger Report, Obsidian Wings, Watching Those We Chose, Shakesville, Left in the West and Truthdig

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 …

Discussion: On Deadline and Truthdig

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.

Discussion: Firedoglake, Taylor Marsh, Crooks and Liars, The Huffington Post, Campaign for America's Future, The Impolitic and TalkLeft

Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
GOP: Grand Obstruction Party

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Crooks and Liars, Sirotablog, Pandagon and Sadly, No!

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.

Discussion: The Carpetbagger Report and The Democratic Daily

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.

Discussion: HillaryClinton.com, The Fix, Liberal Values, Inside Long Island Politics, Sister Toldjah and Hot Air

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."

Discussion: MyDD

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 …

Discussion: Done With Mirrors, The Washington Note and The American Mind

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.

Discussion: Opinions You Should Have, Seeing the Forest, Tom Watson and Taylor Marsh

Fred Hiatt / Washington Post:
What Clinton (Almost) Doesn't Say — Presidential candidate …

Discussion: Think Progress, TalkLeft and MaxSpeak

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.

Discussion: Bad Attitudes, Daily Kos, The Carpetbagger Report, No More Mister Nice Blog and Gateway Pundit

Robert Burns / Associated Press:

Pace: Another troop buildup possible — BAGHDAD - The U.S. military's top general said Monday that the Joint Chiefs of Staff is weighing a range of possible new directions in Iraq, including, if President Bush deems it necessary, an even bigger troop buildup.

Discussion: The Newshoggers, Think Progress, AMERICAblog and Daily Kos

Dan Froomkin / Washington Post:
How Bush Uses His Generals

Discussion: Cliff Schecter and The Atlantic Online

Robert Burns / Associated Press:
Pace: US Weighs Larger 'Surge' in Iraq

Discussion: Corrente and Connecting.the.Dots

Faiz / Think Progress: Voinovich: Bush Has 'F—ed' Up The War, Needs To Start Thinking About His Legacy

The Atlantic Online:

It's Official: McCain's Press Staff Resigns — Sen. John McCain's top three press aides resigned this morning, Republicans close to the campaign said and one of those aides confirmed. — The campaign's research director and two other press staffers also stepped down.

Discussion: Blue Jersey, Boston Globe, A Blog For All, CBS News, PoliPundit.com, Balloon Juice, Donklephant, National Review and Sister Toldjah

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 …

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, Connecting.the.Dots, TIME: Swampland, The Carpetbagger Report and Shakesville

Rick Klein / Political Radar:
McCain Press Staff Quits

Discussion: TalkLeft and Salon

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.

Discussion: Pajamas Media and Clayton Cramer's BLOG

Associated Press:
Man killed outside Colo. governor's office

Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard

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 …

Discussion: The Volokh Conspiracy and Bluey Blog

David Nakamura / Washington Post:
D.C. to Appeal Handgun Case to High Court

Discussion: Cato-at-liberty, The Atlantic Online and Reason Magazine

Glenn Greenwald / Salon:

The GOP is the party of the Iraq war — A new prong of conventional wisdom has arisen that the prime reason for the collapse of John McCain's presidential campaign is his vigorous support for the war in Iraq. Arianna Huffington became the latest pundit to spout this reasoning, when she wrote today: