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I'm Told — Senator Reid just went to the Senate floor and asked people to bid on the Rush letter. — 40-some minutes to go.... UPDATE: Here's a raw transcript from the Senate:
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Jennifer Parker / Political Radar:
Bidding Over $2M for Dems Anti-Rush Letter — ABC News' Z. Byron Wolf Reports: Who says the political fingerpointing in Washington is all for naught? — Back in September, when Democrats and Republicans were sniping at each other over the Iraq war, Republicans passed a nonbinding resolution …
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RushLimbaugh.com Home:
Betty Casey Wins Smear Letter at $2,100,100; Rush Matches Bid; MC-LEF Will Get a Total of $4.2M — BEGIN TRANSCRIPT — RUSH: Well, we have a winner. The auction is over. The final bid remained at $2,100,100. The winning bidder, the high bidder: Betty Casey. More about Betty Casey in due course.
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Harry Reid And The Letter Of Doom — Harry Reid tried his best to put the best possible spin on the Rush Limbaugh letter that just sold to a Republican philanthropist for $2.1 million dollars. Rush will put up a matching $2.1 million donation to a charity that assists the children of Marines …
Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
Dodd Goes to the Mat: Says He Will Filibuster FISA — He said he "might have to." And he will. — From the Dodd campaign: … Finally someone willing to filibuster and cut through the ocean of glue the Senate seems to be swimming in. — This is awesome. Go Dodd. — Update: Just added — YouTube above.
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Greg Sargent / Election Central:
Dodd Will Filibuster Telecom Immunity Bill If Reid Brings It To Vote
Dodd Will Filibuster Telecom Immunity Bill If Reid Brings It To Vote
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Ring Wing goes bonkers over Rep. Pete Stark's comments: Take the C&L Poll … After Rep. Pete Stark made his harsh statements against the Republicans and Bush over the SCHIP veto, the right wingers are trying to change the subject again by feigning outrage against him. Stark also didn't fall for the MoveOn ad outrage also.
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Satyam / Think Progress:
Fox News anchor slams Bush's SCHIP double standard. — Yesterday, on Fox News' All Star Panel, conservative Roll Call editor Mort Kondracke slammed President Bush's SCHIP "compromise," which "cut[s] off about a million children from the rolls." Kondracke called Bush out on making …
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Chris Achorn / My Two Sense:
Did Michael Graham Admit To Pedophilia On Glenn Beck Show? — A very weird statement was made last night on the Glenn Beck television show. One of the guests Glenn Beck brought on to talk about birth control in a Maine middle school was Michael Graham who is a radio talk show host …
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Martin Hodgson / Guardian:
Activists send underwear to Burmese embassies — Activists exasperated at the failure of diplomacy to apply pressure on Burma's military regime are resorting to a new means of protest against the regime's recent crackdown: sending female underwear to Burmese embassies.
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Martin Kady II / The Politico:
Martinez resigns as general chair of RNC — Sen. Mel Martinez (R-Fla.) will resign as general chairman of the Republican Party today, saying he wants to spend more time on his work as Florida's GOP senator, Politico has learned. — Martinez, who took the job nine months ago as the public face …
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Los Angeles Times:
An unlikely treasure-trove of donors for Clinton — The candidate's unparalleled fundraising success relies largely on the least-affluent residents of New York's Chinatown — some of whom can't be tracked down. — NEW YORK — Something remarkable happened at 44 Henry St., a grimy Chinatown tenement with peeling walls.
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Fox News:
FOX To Air Controversial Documentary on Islam — A controversial film that PBS axed from its documentary series about the post-Sept. 11 world will be broadcast for the first time nationwide this week by the FOX News Channel. — The documentary, originally titled "Islam vs. Islamists," …
ABCNEWS:
EXCLUSIVE: The Case for Israel's Strike on Syria — Official: Air Attack Targeted Nascent Nuclear Facility Built With North Korean 'Expertise' — Israeli officials believed that a target their forces bombed inside Syria last month was a nuclear facility, because they had detailed photographs taken …
The Nose On Your Face:
The New York Times' Employee Entrance Exam — Comrade: — This is a simple test we use at The New York Times to ensure that our employees reflect a variety of social, political, and economic beliefs. Please read each question thoroughly, and then select your answer with a number 2 pencil.
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Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
Obama wants official fired for comments — WASHINGTON - Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama said Friday the head of the Justice Department's voting rights division should be fired for saying voter ID laws hurt the elderly but aren't a problem for minorities because they often die before old age.
Opinion Journal:
What Happened at Haditha — The massacre that wasn't, and its political exploitation. — The incident at Haditha—or the massacre, as it is often called—is due for a wholesale rethinking. The allegations are that in 2005 U.S. Marines went on a killing spree and deliberately executed 24 Iraqi civilians.