memeorandum: Doddmania — While Senate rules are confusing to mere mortals … (Atrios/Eschaton)

8:01 PM ET, October 18, 2007

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Exclusive: Senator Chris Dodd Will Put A Hold On Telecom Immunity Bill — Senator Chris Dodd plans to put a hold on the Senate FISA renewal bill because it reportedly grants retroactive immunity to telephone companies for any role they played in the Bush administration's warrantless eavesdropping program, Election Central has learned.

Manu Raju / The Hill:

Leahy: Intel panel about to 'cave' on surveillance — Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) on Thursday condemned Intelligence Committee Democrats for brokering a deal with the White House that would provide retroactive immunity for telephone companies that assisted …

Discussion: Think Progress, Firedoglake, Open Left, Chris Dodd National Blog and The Carpetbagger Report

Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
Come On, Dodd Mania

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Eschaton, Salon, Hullabaloo, The Newshoggers, Open Left, The Reaction, Comments from Left Field, Daily Kos, Booman Tribune, SteveAudio, Needlenose, The American Street and TalkLeft

Atrios / Eschaton:
Doddmania — While Senate rules are confusing to mere mortals …

Discussion: TalkLeft

New York Times:

House Fails to Override Child Health Bill Veto — Supporters of a bill to provide health insurance for 10 million children failed this afternoon, as expected, to muster enough support in the House to override President Bush's veto. — The vote to override the veto was 273 to 156 …

Discussion: The Politico, The Swamp, ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES, DownWithTyranny!, Redstate, Kiko's House, Comments from Left Field, The Van Der Galiën Gazette, the talking dog, MyDD, Buckeye State Blog, Wake up America, Chuck Adkins and Wizbang

Michelle Malkin:

House showdown: The S-CHIP veto override vote; Update: Crazy Pete Stark accuses President Bush of blowing Iraqis and American troops up "for his amusement;" Update: 1:15pm Eastern Veto override fails;Update: MSM ignores Stark remarks — Update 3:20pm Eastern. See my new post on Pete StarkRavingMad.

Discussion: Weekly Standard, Captain's Quarters, Associated Press, Yahoo! News, Bluey Blog, The Politico, Firedoglake, The Swamp, BitsBlog, Macsmind, Gateway Pundit, Riehl World View, Power Line, Outside The Beltway and Don Surber

Jeff G. / protein wisdom:

BREAKING: Pelosi working on Bush Impeachment? (UPDATED) — Via Richard M, who attended a meeting of anti-war activists in Los Angeles on Sunday: … Sadly, each of these explanations seems equally plausible. Which — equally sadly — speaks volumes about today's Congressional Democrats.

Discussion: BitsBlog, Say Anything, Redstate and Hot Air

Michelle Malkin:
Stark raving mad: Diary of an unhinged Democrat

Discussion: Blogs for Bush, Flopping Aces and Gateway Pundit

Washington Post:
House Fails to Overturn Bush Veto on Children's Health Insurance

Discussion: Daily Kos, Bluey Blog and Connecting.the.Dots

Jesse Lee / The Gavel:
Democrats Vow to Insist on Covering 10 Million Children

Discussion: The Carpetbagger Report, pw pub, Open Left, Brave New Films blog, Crooks and Liars, The Democratic Daily, Think Progress, Fact-esque, The Board and Off the Kuff

CNN:
Democrats fail to override Bush SCHIP veto

Discussion: Salon, The Raw Story, PrairiePundit and Wonkette

MSNBC:

Blasts aimed at Bhutto kill more than 100 — Ex-prime minister not hurt, but at least 115 others killed, 248 injured — DEVELOPING STORY — KARACHI, Pakistan - A suicide bombing in a crowd welcoming former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto killed at least 115 people Thursday night …

Discussion: Hot Air, Captain's Quarters, GINA COBB, Gateway Pundit, PoliBlog (TM), Blue Crab Boulevard, PrairiePundit and Central Sanity

CNN:

Bomber kills 124 at Bhutto homecoming — KARACHI, Pakistan (CNN) — Two explosions killed at least 110 people and injured at least 200 Thursday night near a motorcade carrying former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, who returned to the country earlier in the day after eight years of self-imposed exile, police sources told CNN.

Discussion: Right Wing Nut House, The Jawa Report, Counterterrorism Blog and Human Voices

Michelle Malkin:
Bloody (un)welcome: Assassination attempt on Bhutto

Discussion: Associated Press and Sky News

Spencer Ackerman / TPMmuckraker:

Mukasey: President Can Break Some Laws — While Mukasey doesn't think there's an inherent presidential right to torture — which he said is explicitly prohibited by the Constitution — that's not to say he doesn't take a broad interpretation of the president's Article II authority.

Discussion: Balkinization, New York Times, Think Progress, Comments from Left Field, Prairie Weather and The Heretik

Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:

Is Waterboarding Torture? Mukasey: Yes, if It's Torture — Mukasey has firmly established that he's against torture — yesterday he even compared it to the Holocaust (see also here). — But what exactly does that mean? Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) asked Mukasey if he thought waterboarding was Constitutional.

Discussion: Balloon Juice

Houston Chronicle:

Paul, Obama draw support from military voters — WASHINGTON — Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul, the congressman from the Houston area who opposes the Iraq war, has gotten more contributions than any other White House contender from donors identified as affiliated with the military.

Discussion: Weekly Standard, The Atlantic Online, Outside The Beltway and Donklephant

Sadly, No!:

Wingnuttery — Keep it up, GOP. Please, please, please keep acting crazy. — For those with bad eyes, Mr. King has created a chart claiming the S-CHIP really stands for "Socialized Clinton-style Hillarycare for Illegals and their Parents." — Guys, you've done outdone yerselves on this one.

Discussion: CNN, Fact-esque, Norwegianity, The Progressive Perspective and Balloon Juice

Amanda / Think Progress:
Rep. King's new name for SCHIP.

Discussion: Daily Kos, Salon and The Rachel Maddow Show

The Corner:

Aztlan North — Incidentally, while hobnobbing with those Midwesterners at Storm Lake, Iowa—their surnames mostly taken from the Stockholm, Oslo, and Berlin phone books—I heard a couple of times the remark that in this little corner of rural Iowa, the student body in the schools is half Hispanic.

Discussion: MoJoBlog and Vox Popoli

John Derbyshire / Media Matters for America:
NRO's Derbyshire on percentages of Hispanics enrolled in school …

Discussion: culturekitchen

Brian Maloney / The Radio Equalizer:

Rush Limbaugh eBay Auction, Anti-Conservative Smear Campaign — SMASHING EXPECTATIONS — Reid Smear Letter Bidding Reaches Shocking Level — *** FLASH - $851,000! When bidding reached $10,000, we were amazed. And when it ratcheted up to $45,000, many were astounded.

Discussion: Salon, A Blog For All, NewsBusters.org, Little Green Footballs and Blue Crab Boulevard

CNN Political Ticker:

Clinton blasted over 'hippie museum' — WASHINGTON (AP) — Hippies used to say if you remember Woodstock, you weren't really there. Republicans say presidential contender Hillary Clinton can forget about getting $1 million in taxpayer funds for a Woodstock museum.

Discussion: The Politico, The Swamp, Conservative Belle and Hot Air

Ideas Primary:

ENDING THE STALEMATE ON IRAQ — President Bush's approval rating is in the low 30s. Congress's is even lower. Voters want a new strategy in Iraq, and they are clearly disgusted at the inability of the President and Congress to agree on one. — The logjam in Congress on the most pressing issue …

Discussion: Think Progress, democracyarsenal.org and TPMCafe blogs

Multi-National Force:

72-year-old concerned citizen takes down suicide bomber — Multi-National Corps - Iraq — Public Affairs Office, Camp Victory — APO AE 09342 — FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — RELEASE No. 20071018-04 — 72-year-old concerned citizen takes down suicide bomber — 2nd BCT, 3rd Inf. Div.

Discussion: Gates of Vienna and Gateway Pundit