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9:40 PM ET, September 26, 2007

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Couric weighs in on Iraq, Rather  —  Her take on the news  —  Speaking at the National Press Club Tuesday evening, CBS "Evening News" anchor Katie Couric pulled back the curtain on her personal views of both the war in Iraq and former "Evening News" anchor Dan Rather.
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Rather chokes up, and hunkers down  —  "I'm not in this — mostly — with anybody else."  —  Former CBS "Evening News" anchor Dan Rather choked back tears on several occasions today when discussing his decision to file a lawsuit against CBS and he left many audience members with a sense …
The Corner:
The Nefarious "We"  —  Close readers may have noticed that I am increasingly vexed by cosmopolitanism, the idea that we are not citizens of a country or products of a place but rather "citizens of the world."  See this old G-File, particularly the second half for a fuller explanation of my views.
Eric Boehlert / Media Matters for America:
Dan Rather is right
Greg Sargent / Election Central:
Kyl-Lieberman Iran Amendment Passes By Huge Margin  —  The Kyl-Lieberman Iran amendment — which ratchets up the confrontation with Iran by calling for the designation of its Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization responsible for killing U.S. troops — just passed overwhelmingly, 76-22.
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Martin Kady II / The Politico:
Softened Iran resolution passes Senate
Discussion: The Swamp
Greg Gordon / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Ohio, Florida laws could dampen Democratic voting  —  WASHINGTON — Ohio and Florida, which provided the decisive electoral votes for President Bush's two razor-thin national election triumphs, have enacted laws that election experts say will help Republicans impede Democratic-leaning minorities from voting in 2008.
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Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
Dem Defection Sends Voter Fraud Guru to Full Senate  —  As I reported yesterday, the Senate Rules Committee met this morning about the nomination of Hans von Spakovsky to the Federal Elections Commission.  —  This morning's result: faced with the defection of a Democrat on the committee …
Susan Crabtree / The Hill:
Senate Rules panel moves controversial FEC pick
Discussion: Firedoglake and Daily Kos
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Mark Hemingway / The Corner:
Gotcha!  Err, maybe not...  So remember when David Shuster excoriated Rep. Marsha Blackburn on MSNBC for not knowing the name of the most recent soldier from her district to have died in Iraq?  It went something like this: … Well, it turns out that Pvt. Jeremy Bohannon isn't from Blackburn's district.
Discussion: The Jawa Report
David Saltonstall / NY Daily News:
Rudy Giuliani fires chief fundraiser  —  In a sign of potential money woes, Rudy Giuliani has fired his presidential campaign's chief fundraiser and brought in a top rainmaker for President Bush, The Daily News has learned.  —  Anne Dunsmore, who took control of Giuliani's …
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Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Rudy makes change atop finance team
Discussion: CNN Political Ticker and MSNBC
Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
House Votes Overwhelmingly To Condemn MoveOn; Large Majority Of Dems Votes "Aye"  —  This one came out of nowhere: The House of Representatives, which of course enjoys a much larger Dem majority than the Senate, just voted overwhelmingly to condemn MoveOn for its ad criticizing General Petraeus.
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DemHillStaffer / Daily Kos:
Breaking: House Votes to Condemn MoveOn  —  Using a procedural move, the top Republican on the Appropriations Committee, Jerry Lewis, just got a vote on an amendment that condemns MoveOn, by name, for the Petraeus ad.  —  What's worse?  Most Democrats voted for it!!!
Reuters:
"Childrens do learn," Bush tells school kids  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Offering a grammar lesson guaranteed to make any English teacher cringe, President George W. Bush told a group of New York school kids on Wednesday: "Childrens do learn."  —  Bush made his latest grammatical slip …
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Peter Baker / Washington Post:
Bush: No Child Left Behind Is Working
Discussion: The Gate
Editor and Publisher:
Scoop for Spanish Daily: Transcript of Private 2003 Bush Talk Promising Iraq Invasion  —  NEW YORK El Pais, the highest-circulation daily in Spain, today published what it said was the transcript of a private talk between President George W. Bush and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar on February 22 …
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Ali / Think Progress:
Spanish Notes Reveal Bush Was Hell-Bent On War, Despite Claiming 'I've …
Discussion: European Tribune
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Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC:
First Read: Biden's Iraq resolution passes  —  From NBC's Ken Strickland  —  In a strong rebuff to the Bush Administration on Iraq, the Senate overwhelming approved a plan by Biden that essentially calls for breaking Iraq into three sections: Kurd, Sunni, and Shia.
Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:
Freedom's Front Line  —  Here's a gripping first-person report from Burma today: … Read it all.  The Times of London has several blog reports from inside the country.  From one eyewitness: … Check out uploaded pics at Saffron Revolution.  BurmaDigest is also a good resource for breaking news.
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William McCall / Associated Press:
2 Patriot Act Provisions ruled unlawful
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Report: Arafat aide seriously ill
Discussion: Yourish.com
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Eliot Spitzer threat to sue Bush on immigrants' health care
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Ads target top Dems during debate
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Get the ACLU Out of Our Bathrooms
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Laura McGann / TPMmuckraker:
Watchdog Calls for Investigation of GOP Rep's Mucky Earmark
Discussion: Daily Kos and Instapundit.com
The Corner:
Re: Shush, Scheuer
Gary Hart / The Huffington Post:
Unsolicited Advice to the Government of Iran
Discussion: Weekly Standard
Media Matters for America:
CNN's Sanchez: O'Reilly "screamed at the top of his lungs …
Satyam / Think Progress:
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