memeorandum: Clinton to Propose Universal Health Care (Robert Pear/New York Times)

9:50 AM ET, September 17, 2007

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Joseph Goldstein / New York Sun:

Bush To Tap Mukasey for Justice — Schumer Suddenly Turns Guarded — President Bush's choice of Michael Mukasey, a retired judge from New York who has received the support of Senator Schumer, to be the next attorney general signals that the White House wishes to avoid a Senate confirmation battle.

Discussion: Los Angeles Times, Redstate, Guardian and The Mahablog

Washington Post:

Ex-Judge Is Said to Be Pick At Justice — Democrats Likely To Accept Him as Attorney General — President Bush has selected retired federal judge Michael B. Mukasey as his new attorney general, sources said yesterday, moving to install a law-and-order conservative at the Justice Department …

Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:

Schumer Eats His Words, Up-Chucks — Chuck Schumer has begun his rapid retreat from his statements of support for Michael Mukasey. The New York Sun reports that Schumer, who had openly championed Mukasey as a "consensus candidate" to replace Alberto Gonzales as Attorney General …

Discussion: The Van Der Galiën Gazette and rubber hose

Jeralyn / TalkLeft:
Sources: Mukasey to Accept AG Position

Discussion: CNN

New York Times:
Bush to Name Ex-Judge as Successor to Gonzales

Discussion: Bench Conference, TIME and Outside The Beltway

Mike Allen / The Politico:
Bush plans to pick Mukasey for A.G.

Discussion: Liberty Pundit, PoliPundit.com, Weekly Standard and CNN

Philip Shenon / New York Times: Bush Expected to Name Judge as Gonzales's Successor

thinkprogress.org:

Fox censors Sally Field's anti-war speech at Emmy's. — At tonight's Emmy Awards show, the audience cheered Sally Field's acceptance speech, which the recognized mothers of U.S. troops. "Surely this [award] belongs to all the mothers of the world," she stated. "May they be seen, may their work be valued and raised.

Discussion: Reason Magazine, Confederate Yankee, Comments From Left Field, Taylor Marsh, DownWithTyranny!, Don Surber, First Draft, Shakespeare's Sister, Sister Toldjah and TalkLeft

Tomoneil / Los Angeles Times:

Gold Derby by Tom O'Neil — Wow! They censored Sally Field! — "If mothers ruled the world, there wouldn't be any god -" Emmy winner Sally Field said before the Emmycast cut off her sound and pointed the camera away from the stage so viewers would be distracted.

Discussion: The Carpetbagger Report, Greatscat!, The Atlantic Online, Hullabaloo and The Democratic Daily

SilentPatriot / Crooks and Liars:

Emmy Awards: Sally Field Censored by FOX — At last night's 59th Annual Emmy Awards, Sally Field, who won Best Lead Actress in a Drama Series for her role as Nora Holden Walker in ABC's "Brothers and Sisters," was censored by FOX as she was about to make a point about the Iraq War. — Download (1868) |

Discussion: Right Wing Nut House, Althouse, Make Them Accountable, EW.com, New York Times and Associated Press

Bob Woodward / Washington Post:

Greenspan: Ouster Of Hussein Crucial For Oil Security — Alan Greenspan, the former Federal Reserve chairman, said in an interview that the removal of Saddam Hussein had been "essential" to secure world oil supplies, a point he emphasized to the White House in private conversations before the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Discussion: Guardian, The Oxford Medievalist, Tammy Bruce, The Huffington Post, Economist's View, The Agonist, TIME: Swampland and The Blue State

Los Angeles Times:

Greenspan: 'The Iraq war is largely about oil' — The former Federal Reserve chairman makes the comments in his new book, out today. — WASHINGTON — "The Iraq war is largely about oil," former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan says in his new book — an assertion disputed by lawmakers and the U.S. Defense secretary.

Discussion: Heading Right and Captain's Quarters

Krishna Guha / Financial Times:
Greenspan alert on US house prices

Discussion: European Tribune and Calculated Risk

Edmund L. Andrews / New York Times:
A 'Disappointed' Greenspan Lashes Out at Bush's Economic Policies

Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …

Tahman Bradley / Political Radar:
Bush vs. Greenspan: White House Fires Back

Discussion: The Blue State, Cliff Schecter and Washington Wire

Beth Fouhy / Associated Press:

Clinton to offer health care plan — DES MOINES, Iowa - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton is unveiling a sweeping health care proposal Monday that would require everyone to carry health insurance and offer federal subsidies to help reduce the cost of coverage.

Discussion: New York Post, Don Surber, NewsBusters.org, Wizbang, Macsmind, eyeon08.com, JammieWearingFool, Vox Popoli and PoliPundit.com

Robert Pear / New York Times:
Clinton to Propose Universal Health Care

Discussion: The Politico, Taegan Goddard's …, MSNBC, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Washington Monthly, ParaPundit, The Democratic Daily, TalkLeft and Prairie Weather

CNN:

Blackwater Security banned from Iraq — BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — Iraq's Interior Ministry has revoked the license of Blackwater Security Consulting, an American firm whose contractors are blamed for a Sunday gunbattle in Baghdad that left eight civilians dead.

Discussion: Shakespeare's Sister and Blogs of War

Joshua Partlow / Washington Post:

State Dept. Convoy Attacked in Baghdad, Sparking a Shootout — Security Guards Kill 9 Civilians, Iraqis Say — A U.S. State Department motorcade came under attack in Baghdad on Sunday, prompting security contractors guarding the convoy to open fire in the streets.

Discussion: Truthdig

CNN:

O.J. demands his stuff in profanity-laced tape — LAS VEGAS, Nevada (CNN) — O.J. Simpson walked into a Las Vegas hotel room barking orders, hurling profanities and repeatedly accusing someone of stealing his things, according to a recording that a celebrity news Web site claims came from the incident.

Discussion: Captain's Quarters, The Moderate Voice, Los Angeles Times and TMZ.com

CNN:
Police: No bail for O.J. after robbery arrest

Discussion: Pajamas Media, E! Online, Tammy Bruce, Ed Driscoll.com, TMZ.com, Scared Monkeys, The Moderate Voice, Shakespeare's Sister and the talking dog

Washington Post:

Crocker Blasts Refugee Process — Iraqis Could Wait 2 Years for Entry, Ambassador Says — The U.S. ambassador to Iraq warned that it may take the U.S. government as long as two years to process and admit nearly 10,000 Iraqi refugees referred by the United Nations for resettlement to the United States …

Discussion: New York Times, Prairie Weather, FP Passport and Truthdig

Des Moines Register:

Dems urge different Iraq exit plans at steak fry — Indianola, Ia. — Each of six Democratic presidential candidates, appearing at Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin's annual steak fry in Indianola, argued to the most active core of party activists in Iowa Sunday that they can end the war in Iraq.

Discussion: MSNBC, Daily Kos, New York Times, Open Left and TPM Election Central