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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.
New York Times:   Democrats Lack Support to Force Vote on Pullout
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Republicans Call Reid's Bluff
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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.
Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
The National Intelligence Estimate
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and News Hounds
John Bresnahan / The Politico:
GOP establishment rallies around Bush
New York Times:
The Politics of Fear
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
R. Milhous Giuliani  —  With the same rootless confidence that causes people to ignore hurricane warnings, many social conservatives remain in denial about Rudy Giuliani's chances of winning the Republican nomination.  —  But with three debates and eight months as the Republican front-runner under his belt …
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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 …
Discussion: Bloomberg and MSNBC
Tina Daunt / Los Angeles Times:
Winfrey, Obama just the ticket
Discussion: LA Observed
Bachscnn / CNN Political Ticker:   CNN Political Ticker AM
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.
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Harold Meyerson / Washington Post:
Spineless Sages  —  Top GOP Senators Only Talk Against the War  —  Anyone searching for the highest forms of invertebrate life need look no further than the floor of the U.S. Senate last week and this.  These spineless specimens go by various names — Republican moderates …
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.
Discussion: Hot Air and Ed Driscoll.com
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Jackie Kucinich / The Hill:
Reps. Cantor, Wamp blast Ellison for 9/11 comments
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.
David Corn / Washington Post:
Why Bush Is A Loser  —  Who knew Bill Kristol had such a flair for satire?  —  How else to read his piece for Outlook on Sunday, in which he declared, "George W. Bush's presidency will probably be a successful one"?  Surely Kristol, the No. 1 cheerleader for the Iraq war, was mocking himself …
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 …
Discussion: Brian Beutler
Carlin Romano / Chronicle of Higher Education:
If We Don't Call Them Names, the Terrorists Win  —  After the terrorist near misses in London and Glasgow, British officials did the expected.  They raised their nation's threat-assessment level.  They weighed the balance between civil liberties and new, tougher security measures.
Discussion: Angry Bear
 
 
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