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12:50 PM ET, October 3, 2007

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Jonathan E. Kaplan / The Hill:
SCHIP slips as Dems trip over message  —  Democratic leaders on Tuesday moved quickly to shift public attention to President Bush's expected veto of a children's health insurance program from a surtax to pay for the war in Iraq.  —  Democrats had been reveling in their good fortune …
Discussion: The Swamp and Right Voices
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CNN:
Bush vetoes child health insurance bill  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Bush on Wednesday vetoed legislation expanding a children's health insurance program by $35 billion over five years.  —  Bush exercised the veto at 10 a.m. ET before leaving the White House for a trip to Lancaster …
Jennifer Loven / Associated Press:
Bush vetoes child health insurance plan  —  WASHINGTON - President Bush, in a sharp confrontation with Congress, on Wednesday vetoed a bipartisan bill that would have dramatically expanded children's health insurance.  —  It was only the fourth veto of Bush's presidency …
Caren Bohan / Reuters:
Bush vetoes bill on children's health care
Discussion: Power Line
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy / The Huffington Post:
My Challenge to the President
Discussion: Democratic Strategist
Associated Press:
Bush vetoes child health bill
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Michael Abramowitz / Washington Post:
Bush Vetoes Children's Health Insurance Plan
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
They Met A Tax They Didn't Like!  —  Wisconsin Rep. David Obey …
Discussion: The Swamp
Chris Frates / The Politico:
SCHIP supporters storm Capitol Hill
Discussion: The Swamp
Washington Post:
Clinton Widens Lead in Poll  —  Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has consolidated her place as the front-runner in the contest for the Democratic presidential nomination, outpacing her main rivals in fundraising in the most recent quarter and widening her lead in a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
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Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Edwards says Obama using stolen ideas  —  Former Sen. John Edwards's (D-N.C.) campaign widened its sights Tuesday to include Democratic rival Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) and his foreign policy speech commemorating the five-year anniversary of his first speech against the Iraq war.
Quinnipiac University News and Events:
October 3, 2007 - Clinton Tops Giuliani By 11 Points In New York State, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Favorite Son And Daughter Dominate Party Primaries  —  Sen. Hillary Clinton leads the Republican front-runner, former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani 52 - 41 percent in the 2008 …
Richelieu / Weekly Standard:
Media Blasphemy  —  Another day, another blasphemy against rational political analysis by the media.  This time, a new national poll from the Washington Post complete with howls of new insight: It's over. … Media polling is strange journalism.  The media both creates a story by conducting …
Discussion: The Corner
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Parsing the Polls: Inside the Clinton Surge
Discussion: Open Left, Raising Kaine and TIME
Patrick Healy / New York Times:
Clinton Steals Obama's Fund-Raising Thunder
Discussion: The Politico
Byron York / National Review Online:
Limbaugh Makes His Case  —  On Monday evening, September 24, Rush Limbaugh was struck by a story that appeared on ABC's World News with Charles Gibson.  "A closer look tonight at phony heroes," Gibson said in his introduction to the report, which was about men who claim to be veterans but are not.
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Times - Limbaugh A "Victim", Like MoveOn  —  Carl Hulse and the NY Times finally (and belatedly) sidle up to the phony Rush Limbaugh "phony soldiers" story, adopting a moral equivalence pose and explaining nothing: … Eight paragraphs in and no real bacground on the phony controversy.
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Limbaugh Latest Victim in War of Condemnation  —  Having abandoned for now their effort to force President Bush to withdraw troops from Iraq, Democrats are not giving ground against a lesser nemesis: Rush Limbaugh.  —  With the help of liberal advocacy groups, the Democrats in Congress …
Patrick Ruffini:
Kos Traffic Numbers Inflated by 60%  —  Yesterday, I had the good "fortune" of being frontpaged on Daily Kos.  The post sat atop the site for two hours.  According to Google Analytics, the link produced 1,164 visitors yesterday.  —  For the traffic behemoth Kos is portrayed as, that seems low …
Griff Witte / Washington Post:
Pakistan Seen Losing Fight Against Taliban And Al-Qaeda  —  PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Pakistan's government is losing its war against emboldened insurgent forces, giving al-Qaeda and the Taliban more territory in which to operate and allowing the groups to plot increasingly ambitious attacks …
New York Times:
From Errand to Fatal Shot to Hail of Fire to 17 Deaths  —  It started out as a family errand: Ahmed Haithem Ahmed was driving his mother, Mohassin, to pick up his father from the hospital where he worked as a pathologist.  As they approached Nisour Square at midday on Sept. 16 …
Libby Spencer / The Newshoggers:
Ron Paul's grassroots problem  —  Paul has the most enthusiastic supporters in the race.  I can appreciate their energy and motivation and for the most part I've found them to be articulate and reasonable people.  But word up, your man is being perceived as the kook candidate …
 
 
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Duane R. Patterson / Townhall.com:
Retirement With Class  —  Yesterday at Fort Myer, Virginia …
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Vote on Iraq Again and Again
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Missile Defense System Is Up and Running, Military Says
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RIAA anti-P2P campaign a real money pit, according to testimony
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