Top Items:
Roger Simon / The Politico:
Obama, Edwards attack; Clinton bombs debate — PHILADELPHIA - - We now know something that we did not know before: When Hillary Clinton has a bad night, she really has a bad night. — In a debate against six Democratic opponents at Drexel University here Tuesday, Clinton gave the worst performance of her entire campaign.
Discussion:
New York Times, MSNBC, Spin Cycle, QandO, CNN Political Ticker, Real Clear Politics, Examining Presidential …, The Caucus, MyDD and TalkLeft
RELATED:
New York Times:
A Pitched Debate: Clinton Hears It From Her Rivals — Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York came under withering attack from the rest of the Democratic presidential field last night in a pitched two-hour debate that her opponents used to challenge her candor and electability and to portray …
Discussion:
The Swamp, CNN Political Ticker, michellemalkin.com, The Atlantic Online, New York Post, The Van Der Galiën Gazette, Brian Beutler, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, MSNBC, Sharoncobb, No More Mister Nice Blog, Brains and Eggs, The American Street, Brilliant at Breakfast, Spin Cycle, Boston Globe, Hot Air, Corrente and Slog
Washington Post:
Clinton's Foes Go on the Attack — Front-Runner Is Target in Season's Liveliest Democratic Debate — With just over two months until the first primary contest, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's Democratic rivals aggressively challenged their party's front-runner here Tuesday night …
Discussion:
The Newshoggers, The BLT, The Caucus, Norwegianity, CNN, BitsBlog, Althouse, Tennessee Guerilla Women and The Moderate Voice
New York Times:
The Democratic Debate on MSNBC — The following is a transcript of the Democratic Presidential debate in Philadelphia, as provided by Federal News Service. — PARTICIPANTS: — FORMER SENATOR JOHN EDWARDS (D-NC) — SENATOR BARACK OBAMA (D-IL) — MODERATORS: — MR. WILLIAMS: Senator Obama, we'll begin with you.
Bryan / Hot Air:
Video: Hillary Clinton flip flops around Eliot Spitzer's licenses-for-illegals plan Updates and additions — Let's call this Exhibit A in the case against Hillary Clinton for president. In the following clip we see her radicalism, her shrillness, her inability to finesse a tough question, and her condescension to her opponents.
Susan Milligan / Boston Globe:
Democrats focus attacks on Clinton at debate
Democrats focus attacks on Clinton at debate
Discussion:
TownHall Blog
Jeffrey Mize / Columbian:
Police report sheds new light on Curtis encounter — State Rep. Richard Curtis, R-La Center, admitted to having sex with a man he met at an adult video store in Spokane last week, according to a police report released Tuesday afternoon. — The police report offers a damning and far different version …
RELATED:
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
NGRs = Not Gay Republicans — Unsolicited advice from TPM to closeted Republican politicians: if you offer to pay a guy $1000 to have sex with you, don't try to wriggle out of paying the thousand dollars. — More advice: if you get into a payment dispute with the guy you paid to have sex with you …
Discussion:
The Sideshow
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Jay Rockefeller channels Dick Cheney's fear-mongering to urge telecom amnesty — Leading telecom advocate Fred Hiatt this morning turned over his Washington Post Op-Ed page today to leading telecom advocate Jay Rockefeller, the Democratic Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman …
RELATED:
Anne Gearan / Associated Press:
Longtime Bush adviser leaving State Dept — WASHINGTON - Karen Hughes, who led efforts to improve the U.S. image abroad and was one of President Bush's last remaining advisers from the close circle of Texas aides, will leave the government at the end of the year.
RELATED:
Keith L. Alexander / Washington Post:
Judge Who Lost Pant Suit Loses Job — Roy L. Pearson Jr., the administrative law judge who lost his $54 million lawsuit against a Northeast Washington dry cleaner, lost his job yesterday and was ordered to vacate his office, sources said. — Pearson, 57, who had served as a judge for two years …
Associated Press:
Tax law: Are you eating those pumpkins? — DES MOINES, Iowa - The Iowa Department of Revenue is taxing jack-o'-lanterns this Halloween. The new department policy was implemented after officials decided that pumpkins are used primarily for Halloween decorations, not food, and should be taxed …
Pajamas Media:
Shocking Inside DC Scandal Rumor: A Media Ethics Dilemma — So I was down in DC this past weekend and happened to run into a well-connected media person, who told me flatly, unequivocally that "everyone knows" The LA Times was sitting on a story, all wrapped up and ready …
Guardian:
Post-Islamism — The future of Islamic reform lies with post-Islamism - a recognition that politics rather than religion provides for welfare in this life. — There is universal consensus that Muslim dictatorships, supported by the west, are the root of evil.
Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
Leahy to White House: Thanks for Nothing — Last week, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) pronounced himself pleased that the administration had handed over four "previously undisclosed documents" relating to the administration's interrogation policies.
RELATED:
The Fix:
UFOs and Alien Life — In the weird last minutes of the debate (the period, by the way, when The Fix made it onto the basketball court in high school) Rep. Dennis Kucinich (Ohio) gave us a highlight. — Asked about the statement by actress Shirley MacLaine that Kucinich had seen a UFO at her house, Kucinich said that he had.