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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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Kucinich's Resolution Survives Tabling Attempt, Is Referred to Committee — 4:41 The motion to send it to the Judiciary Committee passed with only about 5 Dems voting No and 3 Republicans voting Yes. Presumably the 86 Dems who voted No on tabling believed that to be enough to appease their constituents …
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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 …
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'Dennis Kucinich is on a quest of his own. He sees flying saucers and he acts like one, too' — That's from Alcee Hastings. Suffice it to say, Democratic leaders are pissed at Dennis for bringing up impeachment — I love it. Fox News is reporting that the Democratic leaders in Congress …
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House Steps Up Confrontation With Bush Over Spending
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Kucinich's Cheney Impeachment Resolution Stays Alive in House, Moved to Committee
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On Deadline, Capitol Briefing, The American Street, Blue Crab Boulevard and Weekly Standard
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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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SCHADENFREUDE ALERT....The New York Times reports today that a group of conservative authors, including Swift Boat nutball Jerome Corsi, is suing right-wing darling Regnery Publishing. The lead plaintiff is Richard Miniter, author of Shadow War: The Untold Story of How Bush Is Winning the War on Terror …
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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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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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False Confessions — They've always been the point of torture,
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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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Poll: 70% of LGBT Respondents Support Noninclusive ENDA — According to a new poll, 70% of LGBT Americans prefer passing an Employment Non-Discrimination Act that does not cover transgender people over not passing the bill at all. The poll, commissioned by the Human Rights Campaign …
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The Gs and the Ts — A new poll shows 70 percent of gay Americans …
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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.
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DownWithTyranny!, Obama HQ, AMERICAblog, Raising Kaine, michellemalkin.com and Oliver Willis
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A Letter From Iraq to My Overwrought Colleagues — In his first posting, John writes an open letter to his Foreign Service Officer colleagues about the controversial issue of directed assignments in Iraq. The issue raises an interesting question, "Should diplomats and other non-military personnel …
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"A vote for Romney is a vote for Satan" — Mitt Romney at the Republican National Hispanic Assembly Convention's prayer breakfast in Washington, July 22, 2007 — From the back room of a dilapidated used-car dealership, the televangelist Bill Keller has spent the past eight years battling to save the souls of men.
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Kathleen Willey suspects Clintons murdered husband — New book details evidence of 'smear' campaign orchestrated by Hillary — In a new book alleging a campaign of slander and intimidation orchestrated chiefly by Hillary Clinton, Kathleen Willey points a finger of suspicion at the former …
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Recession's Hidden Virtues — We are all waiting, it seems, for the next recession. Everyone knows that the business cycle hasn't been repealed, and so another recession is inevitable. Some indicators suggest that it might be sooner rather than later. The Conference Board's consumer confidence index …