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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.
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.
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
McClatchy on why... FILIBUSTER. IT WON'T BITE. — McClatchy on why tonight's filibuster isn't a filibuster ... Here's another beaut just out from the AP in which David Espo describes tonight's events but refuses to use the word 'filibuster' until he gets around to describing …
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 …
Harold Meyerson / Washington Post:Spineless Sages — Top GOP Senators Only Talk Against the War
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Daily Kos
Democrats.senate.gov:Reid: Democrats Heed Call Of American People, Continue Fight …
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Taylor Marsh
Media Matters for America:On Good Morning America, Sawyer falsely claimed Reid "vows to filibuster"
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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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John Bresnahan / The Politico:
GOP establishment rallies around Bush — The Republican establishment is rallying to the defense of President Bush and his controversial war strategy, with some GOP members of Congress cherry-picking intelligence about a resurgent Al Qaeda to buy at least two more months for Bush's Iraq strategy.
Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
The National Intelligence Estimate — Because we hate downloading .pdfs as much as you do, here's the latest National Intelligence Estimate in full text. — Key Judgments — We judge the US Homeland will face a persistent and evolving terrorist threat over the next three years.
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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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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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 …
Aaron Blake / The Hill:
Obama vows to look into High Court nominees' 'hearts' — Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) sent a strong signal Tuesday that he would appoint pro-abortion rights Supreme Court justices but stopped short of endorsing a litmus test. — After a speech heavily critical of the new Supreme Court …
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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 …
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.
CNN:
YouTube politics: Candidates lose control — WASHINGTON (CNN) — It was one of the most talked about moments in the 2006 campaign: "Lets give a welcome to Macaca, here. Welcome to America and the real world of Virginia." — That was then-Virginia Republican Sen. George Allen's controversial remark …
Richard Beeston / Times of London:
Security services 'foil plot to kill Berezovsky at the London Hilton' — Boris Berezovsky fled Britain three weeks ago on the advice of Scotland Yard, amid reports that he was the target of an assassination attempt by a suspected Russian hitman. — The exiled tycoon and fierce critic …
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