memeorandum: Senators Pull All-Nighter For Debate On Iraq War (Washington Post)

9:30 AM ET, July 18, 2007

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Live-Blogging The Senate Iraq Filibuster — [ThinkProgress is at the Capitol building, live-blogging the all-night conservative filibuster of Iraq withdrawal legislation.] — 12:27 AM: 1,000 people gathered outside the Capitol tonight for a rally and candlelight vigil.

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Washington Post:

Senators Pull All-Nighter For Debate On Iraq War — GOP Denounces Effort As Political Theatrics — Democrats rolled out cots and ordered pizzas as they settled in for a marathon Senate debate on Iraq last night that featured numerous speeches but little chance of getting any closer to resolving the stalemate over how to end the war.

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Carl Hulse / New York Times:

Democrats Lack Support to Force Vote on Pullout — A handful of Republicans who have distanced themselves from President Bush on the war in Iraq refused Tuesday to back a plan to withdraw American troops from the conflict, leaving Senate Democrats short of the support needed to force a vote on their proposal.

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Michelle Malkin:

The Senate slumber party-Open thread Update: 10:10pm Stunts and snoozes...now Lieberman speaks Update: Dems in the majority whine, "Let us vote"...11:54pm Menendez screams about "tyranny of the minority;" mocking Democrat placards Update: 12:30am Reid wants an 11:00am cloture vote …

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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:

Republicans Call Reid's Bluff — Harry Reid kept the Senate in business all night long as a way to publicize the fact that Republicans won't allow cloture on an amendment for retreating from Iraq. For some reason, Reid apparently thought that this would somehow break the will of the Republicans …

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Democrats.senate.gov:
Reid: Democrats Heed Call Of American People, Continue Fight …

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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
McClatchy on why...

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Karina / The Gavel:
Candlelight Call to Action

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Hindrocket / Power Line:
A MAN ADDRESSES THE BOYS

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Jay Newton-Small / Time:
Do the Dems Want to Win on Iraq?

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Michael Abramowitz / Washington Post:

Intelligence Puts Rationale For War on Shakier Ground — The White House faced fresh political peril yesterday in the form of a new intelligence assessment that raised sharp questions about the success of its counterterrorism strategy and judgment in making Iraq the focus of that effort.

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Fred Kaplan / Slate:

Read It and Weep — EVEN BUSH'S INTELLIGENCE REPORT SAYS THE WAR IN IRAQ IS MAKING US LESS SAFE AT HOME. — The National Intelligence Estimate that was released today—titled "The Terrorist Threat to the Homeland"—amounts to a devastating critique of the Bush administration's policies on Iraq, Iran, and the terrorist threat itself.

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Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
The National Intelligence Estimate

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John Bresnahan / The Politico:
GOP establishment rallies around Bush

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New York Times:
Bush Aides See Failure in Fight With Al Qaeda in Pakistan

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ESPN:

Falcons' Vick indicted by grand jury in dogfighting probe — Michael Vick has been indicted by a federal grand jury in connection with the dogfighting probe of his property in Virginia. — The indictment alleges that Vick and his co-defendants began sponsoring dogfighting in early 2001 …

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The Smoking Gun:
Michael Vick Indicted

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Steve Verdon / Outside The Beltway:
Michael Vick Indicted on Charges of Dog Fighting

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Michael Saul / NY Daily News:

Attorneys in Rudy firm buck boss — With partners like these, who needs enemies? — Rudy Giuliani is a named partner at Bracewell & Giuliani, but that hasn't stopped some of the law firm's attorneys from backing his rivals for President. — Nearly one-third of the firm's attorneys …

Aaron Blake / The Hill:
Obama vows to look into High Court nominees' 'hearts'

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Tina Daunt / Los Angeles Times:
Winfrey, Obama just the ticket

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Associated Press:

US: Top al-Qaida in Iraq figure captured — BAGHDAD - The U.S. command said Wednesday the highest-ranking Iraqi in the leadership of al-Qaida in Iraq has been arrested, adding that information from him indicates the group's foreign-based leadership wields considerable influence over the Iraqi chapter.

Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
US Captures Top AQI Figure

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Frederic J. Frommer / Associated Press:

Lawmaker admits error in Nazi reference — WASHINGTON - The nation's first Muslim congressman said Tuesday that he erred in comparing the Bush administration's response to Sept. 11 to an event that led to Adolf Hitler's consolidation of power in Nazi Germany.

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Jackie Kucinich / The Hill:
Reps. Cantor, Wamp blast Ellison for 9/11 comments

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Rebecca Keeble / NEWS.com.au:

Gore's message loses bite — Decrease Increase - — Submit comment: — ONLY one week after Live Earth, Al Gore's green credentials slipped while hosting his daughter's wedding in Beverly Hills. — Gore and his guests at the weekend ceremony dined on Chilean sea bass - arguably one of the world's most threatened fish species.

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Washington Post:

Papers Detail Industry's Role in Cheney's Energy Report — At 10 a.m. on April 4, 2001, representatives of 13 environmental groups were brought into the Old Executive Office Building for a long-anticipated meeting. Since late January, a task force headed by Vice President Cheney …

Michael A. Fletcher / Washington Post:

White House Had Drug Officials Appear With GOP Candidates — White House officials arranged for top officials at the Office of National Drug Control Policy to help as many as 18 vulnerable Republican congressmen by making appearances and sometimes announcing new federal grants …

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Patrick O'Connor / The Politico:

Earmarks gone wild — What's a paltry one million dollars to a member of Congress? — Well, apparently not enough to know if an organization about to receive that big block of cash actually exists. — Republican Rep. Jeff Flake of Arizona, the fiscal crusader who's never met an earmark he likes …

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