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Idaho Statesman:
UPDATED 7:25 p.m. — Craig may not quit after all if he's cleared of charges, spokesman says — Sen. Larry Craig says he may fight to keep his job in the U.S. Senate after all. — "Basically, as he stated on Saturday, Senator Craig intends to resign on Sept. 30th," said his spokesman Dan Whiting via e-mail Tuesday night.
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John Miller / Associated Press:
Craig reconsidering decision to resign — BOISE, Idaho - Sen. Larry Craig says he may still fight for his Senate seat, a spokesman says — if the lawmaker can clear his name with the Senate Ethics Committee and a Minnesota court where he pleaded guilty after his arrest in an airport men's room sex sting.
ABCNEWS:
AP: Craig Reconsiders Decision to Resign — AP NewsBreak: Idaho Sen. Craig Reconsidering Decision to Resign in Uproar Over Sex Sting — Sen. Larry Craig is reconsidering his decision to resign after his arrest in a Minnesota airport sex sting and may still fight for his Senate seat, his spokesman said Tuesday evening.
New York Times:
Craig Said to Consider Not Resigning — Senator Larry E. Craig of Idaho opened the door Tuesday to returning to the Senate, creating another twist in his unfolding political drama and raising the possibility of an ugly showdown with national Republican leaders.
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Associated Press:
FALLOUT — Political support for Craig continues to erode. — Nevada Senator John Ensign, GOP leader, implying he should quit. — Senator John McCain among Republicans urging Craig to resign. — Senator Norm Coleman, R-Minn, returned $2500 Craig donation.
Jeralyn / TalkLeft:
Paper Publishes Larry Craig's Voicemail to his Lawyer — Bump and Update: Check out the voicemail Sen. Larry Craig left for his lawyer Billy Martin "on a stranger's phone" minutes before his resignation speech. Roll Call obtained the voicemail after it was offered for sale and refused by the Idaho Statesman.
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Arlen! — I'm really not sure I've ever seen such a bizarre story. Via McJoan at DailyKos I found this story at the Idaho Statesman, which, well ... there's really not explaining this ... For what it's worth I went to the Roll Call site and I didn't see any story about this.
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Logan Murphy / Crooks and Liars:
Countdown Special Comment: You have no remaining credibility about Iraq, sir. — Keith Olbermann's Special Comment tonight is without a doubt, one of his hardest hitting and most emotional to date. Keith absolutely lays waste to President Bush's lies and rhetoric about the surge.
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Keith Olbermann / MSNBC:
Bush just playing us with 'troop withdrawal' — Night is day, and death is life, and enraging the world against us is safety — SPECIAL COMMENT — And so he is back from his annual surprise gratuitous photo-op in Iraq, and what a sorry spectacle it was.
Dan Froomkin / Washington Post:
Kabuki at Camp Cupcake — What exactly was President Bush up to yesterday, making a "surprise visit" to a huge American air base in Iraq, praising the ostensible progress there and hinting at a troop reduction if things keep going so well? — One answer lies in the remarkably forthright …
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Spencer Ackerman / TPMmuckraker:
Selling War with Iran: Next Week at AEI — Barnett Rubin is the last person to set off wild speculation about war with Iran: the longtime Afghanistan expert is wonky, moderate and thoroughly analytical. But that's exactly what happened on Wednesday, when Rubin blogged that an anonymous …
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Washington Post:
Fighting for Our Handgun Ban — As mayor and attorney general of the District of Columbia, we were deeply disappointed this year when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit declared that the District's longstanding handgun ban violates the Second Amendment.
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Frederick W. Kagan / Weekly Standard:
What's Wrong with the GAO Report — Measuring failure—or the failures of measuring. — At first glance—as those who leaked it last week saw—the Government Accountability Office's report on Iraq, released today, paints a dark view of progress and prospects in Iraq.
Brian Knowlton / New York Times:
Independent Audit Finds Progress Lacking in Iraq — A report by Congressional auditors issued todayconcludes that "violence remains high" in Iraq amid mixed progress on security and that political reconciliation efforts remain far from sufficient, eight months after President Bush began his troop-increase plan.
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David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo:
STATE SECRETS — Is the D.C. Madam attempting to raise the graymail defense? Or is it the throw-everything-against-a-wall-and- see-what sticks defense? From the WaPo: … I'm not sure where this is going. A grand unified theory of scandal, perhaps? Warrantless wiretapping of Muslim men …
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ABCNEWS:
Time to Head to Congress — Gen. Petraeus Preps for Much-Anticipated Iraq Progress Report — The top military general in Iraq hinted to ABC's Martha Raddatz that next week's much-anticipated report on the status of the troop surge in Iraq would include a recommendation for troop reduction in March …
Washington Post:
Military Officials in Iraq Fault GAO Report — A bleak portrait of the political and security situation in Iraq released yesterday by the Government Accountability Office sparked sharp protests from the top U.S. military command in Baghdad, whose officials described it as flawed and "factually incorrect."
Dean Barnett / Weekly Standard:
The Lopsided Netroots — Why there's no conservative Kos. — In early August, the collection of liberal blogs that refers to itself as "the Netroots" held its annual convention. The convention's name, "YearlyKos," invokes the allure of the liberal blogosphere's most powerful entity, the Daily Kos.
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