memeorandum: Bush Vetoes Children's Health Bill (David Stout/New York Times)

6:50 PM ET, October 3, 2007

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Exclusive: Paul Tops $5 Mil For Quarter — Texas Congressman Ron Paul, an anti-war libertarian making his second run at the White House, will report having raised $5.08 million in the third quarter. The number, which rivals those of John McCain and Bill Richardson, was boosted thanks …

Discussion: Captain's Quarters, The Politico, Hot Air and Outside The Beltway

The Atlantic Online:

Ron Paul Raises Five Times As Much As Huckabee — Oh me of little faith. Ron Paul cannot be dismissed as a gadfly; the chance for him to outperform expectations rises exponentially with additional million dollars he raises. 5.08m is real money. There must be, within the Republican Party, a vein of anti-war libertarian sentiment.

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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:

Huckabee's Money — UPDATE, 2:15 pm: Huckabee's numbers seem even less impressive given that Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) — far more of a longshot than the former Arkansas Governor — raised more than $5 million over the last three months. — ORIGINAL POST — One of the biggest questions …

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David Weigel / Reason Magazine:

Ron Paul: Five Million Dollar Man — Ron Paul's campaign confirms that it collected $5,080,000 in the third quarter of fundraising. That's more than double the campaign's second quarter haul of $2.4 million; it's also as much as "comeback" candidate John McCain has reportedly raised.

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blog.ronpaul2008.com:
Press Release: Third Quarter Fundraising

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Libby Spencer / The Newshoggers:
Ron Paul's grassroots problem

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Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC: RON PAUL RAISES $5 MILLION!

CNN:

Dems vow fight to beat health bill veto — 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 …

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David Espo / Associated Press:

Child health veto will be election issue — WASHINGTON - President Bush cast a quiet veto Wednesday against a politically attractive expansion of children's health insurance, triggering a struggle with the Democratic-controlled Congress certain to reverberate into the 2008 elections.

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David Stout / New York Times:
Bush Vetoes Children's Health Bill

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Jonathan E. Kaplan / The Hill:
SCHIP slips as Dems trip over message

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McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Bush veto strategy threatens Republicans

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Eric Pianin / The Fix:

Sen. Pete Domenici Expected to Retire — Veteran Sen. Pete Domenici (R-N.M.) is expected to announce tomorrow that he will retire from the Senate in 2008, according to several informed sources, a decision that further complicates an already difficult playing field for Republicans next November.

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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.

Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Edwards says Obama using stolen ideas

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The Atlantic Online:
As Edwards Focus On Education, An Education Union Endorses Hillary Clinton

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Satyam / Think Progress:

White House Retaliates Against UK For Withdrawal: 'British Forces Have Performed Poorly' In Iraq — This week, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced that he would reduce British presence in Iraq from 5,500 troops to 4,500 by Christmas. The Guardian reports today that Brown will cut …

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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 …

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The Atlantic Online:

Proxies' War — The Washington Post's website has put together what's got to be the most comprehensive list of campaign foreign policy advisers anywhere. Hillary Clinton has what's clearly the most impressive list in terms of scope and quality of resumés.

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Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly: VSP WATCH....The Washington Post has compiled a list …

Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC:

Another Fred gaffe — From NBC's Joel Seidman — More gaffes from Fred Thompson: Not only has he misspoken or said he didn't know about Terri Schiavo, or the controversy about oil drilling in the Everglades, or that he was unaware that a federal judge had ruled that lethal injection procedures …

Discussion: Comments from Left Field, The Gate, The Daily Background, Oliver Willis and TIME

Darin Murphy / The Huffington Post:

Weak Has a Face, and It's Pelosi's — If there was any doubt before, which there wasn't, it's gone now. Watching Nancy Pelosi on The View yesterday morning provided the final proof that the backbone of the House is only as strong as its speaker. Her body language said it all.

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Jonah Goldberg / The Corner:

The Drug War, And Other Problems — Yesterday's brief discussion of the drug war is still eliciting lots and lots of email, as it always does. It's funny, I'd say the biggest source of my own self-censorship isn't political correctness, fear of controversy, or even aversion to copious hate mail (I get that any way).

Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:
A Conservative Approach — I'm always bashing the Cornerites …

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Daily Mail:

Schools must warn of Gore climate film bias — Schools will have to issue a warning before they show pupils Al Gore's controversial film about global warming, a judge indicated yesterday. — The move follows a High Court action by a father who accused the Government of 'brainwashing' children …

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Fred File:

Fred Thompson on Harry Reid's attacks on Rush Limbaugh — Congressional Democrats are trying to divert attention from insulting our military leader in Iraq and pandering to the loony left by attacking Rush Limbaugh. He is one of the strongest supporters of our troops, yet Democrats claim he is not being strong enough.