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Brian Faughnan / Weekly Standard:
Dems Outmaneuvered on Impeachment (Updated) — This afternoon Dennis Kucinich took to the House floor to press his case for the impeachment of Vice President Cheney. A little while later, and as expected, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer moved to table the resolution without a debate.
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Kagro X / Daily Kos:
OK, so did you get that? — OK, no frills here: — So Dennis Kucinich offered a privileged resolution to impeach Dick Cheney. His motion entitled him to read his articles of impeachment into the record and on C-SPAN. — That gave the House leadership two days to figure out what to do …
Fox News:
Kucinich's Cheney Impeachment Resolution Stays Alive in House, Moved to Committee — WASHINGTON — Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich expressed satisfaction Tuesday with a series of procedural twists on the House floor that resulted in the Ohio congressman's impeachment articles …
Cernig / The Newshoggers:
Dems Ensure Motion To Impeach Cheney Goes Nowhere (Updated) — Updated Below — According to The Swamp, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer will move to table Dennis Kucinich's to impeach Cheney on the basis that it would split the Democratic Party. … Hoyer has backing from House Judiciary …
Davidswanson / AfterDowningStreet.org:
Kucinich's Resolution Survives Tabling Attempt, Is Referred to Committee
Kucinich's Resolution Survives Tabling Attempt, Is Referred to Committee
Mike Carney / On Deadline:
House tied in knots over resolution to impeach Cheney
House tied in knots over resolution to impeach Cheney
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Blue Crab Boulevard
Motoko Rich / New York Times:
Conservative Authors Sue Publisher — Five authors have sued the parent company of Regnery Publishing, a Washington imprint of conservative books, charging that the company deprives its writers of royalties by selling their books at a steep discount to book clubs and other organizations owned by the same parent company.
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David Stout / New York Times:
House Votes to Override Bush's Veto of Water Projects — The House voted 361 to 54 this evening to override President Bush's veto of a $23 billion water projects bill, apparently sealing Mr. Bush's first defeat in a veto showdown with Congress. — The House tally was well over the two-thirds majority needed to override a veto.
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DownWithTyranny!
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
House Steps Up Confrontation With Bush Over Spending
House Steps Up Confrontation With Bush Over Spending
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Political Machine
Stephen Grey / The Blotter:
CIA Rendition: The Smoking Gun Cable — Sometimes the music was American rap, sometimes Arab folk songs. In the CIA prison in Afghanistan, it came blaring through the speakers 24 hours a day. Prisoners held alone inside barbed-wire cages could only speak to each other and exchange …
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Atrios / Eschaton:
False Confessions — They've always been the point of torture,
False Confessions — They've always been the point of torture,
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BitsBlog
Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Poll: 77% oppose illegals' licenses — Voters oppose driver's licenses for illegal aliens by a nearly five-to-one margin, a new Fox 5/Washington Times/Rasmussen Reports poll finds. — As immigration politics explode into the presidential race, polls show Americans are taking a hard line …
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Kerry Bringing It On! — I am not making this up - a mere three years too late, Kerry has pieced together his autobiography: … Cool - Kerry has finally wrestled his personal history to the canvas. Did Douglas Brinkley, Tour of Duty author, finally allow Kerry access to Kerry's "War Notes"?
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Fox News:
John Kerry: I'm Now Prepared to Fight Off Swift Boat Veterans — Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, perhaps preparing to get back into the presidential ring one day, claims he's now armed with materials that will make war record critics from his 2004 presidential campaign go running tail between legs.
Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:
The Gs and the Ts — A new poll shows 70 percent of gay Americans are fine with excluding the transgendered from proposed federal employment protections for now. Since Bush will veto any pro-gay bills, this is more theoretically interesting than politically salient.
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The Debate Link
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Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:
The man, the technique behind Paul's haul — Trevor Lyman came from nowhere this week to earn a spot in fundraising lore by engineering a reported $4 million day for Ron Paul's dark horse Republican presidential campaign. — But the 37-year old political novice from Miami Beach isn't done yet.
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Susan Page / USA Today:
Poll finds Americans split on taking military action in Iran — Potential nuclear threat concerns respondents — WASHINGTON — Americans are concerned about Iran's nuclear program but split on whether military action should be undertaken if diplomacy and economic sanctions fail to stop it, according to a new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll.
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Jay / Stop The ACLU:
ACLU Finds Secret Torture Memos; Leftards Waterboard One Another — Update: Kender notices in this video at the 46 second mark...that when the towel is removed it keeps a shape. If you pour a gallon of water on a towel, it does not keep shape like this. There is a shield of some type under …
Michael D. Shear / Washington Post:
Kaine Claims Victory in Virginia — Democratic Party Wins at Least Four Key State Senate Races — Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine (D) claimed victory tonight in Tuesday's elections, saying his party had seized control of the state Senate and made historic gains in the House of Delegates.
Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
THE GOLDEN WINGNUT AWARD....The Wingnut Contest is over and the votes have now been tallied by the prestigious accounting firm of Pollhost.com. So without further ado, the five winners of the Golden Wingnut Award are: — John Hinderaker: "It must be very strange to be President Bush.
Sarah Lai Stirland / Wired News:
Decoy Election Websites Pretend to Root for Your Candidate — It took less than a month for Jason Francis to realize that he was not among allies at the so-called Fred Thompson Forum, a website purporting to support the candidacy of the Republican presidential contender.
Max Blumenthal / The Huffington Post:
The Demons of David Horowitz — During the week of October 21, far-right wing operative and former communist agitator David Horowitz deployed his allies to college campuses America to spout crude anti-Muslim invective. He called this event "Islamofascism Awareness Week."
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Lawyers, Guns and Money