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Jennifer Loven / Associated Press:
Bush vetoes health and education bill — NEW ALBANY, Ind. - President Bush, escalating his budget battle with Congress, on Tuesday vetoed a spending measure for health and education programs prized by congressional Democrats. — He also signed a big increase in the Pentagon's non-war budget although …
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Anne Flaherty / Associated Press:
Reid calls on Bush to withdraw troops — WASHINGTON - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Tuesday that Democrats won't approve more money for the Iraq war this year unless President Bush agrees to begin bringing troops home. — By the end of the week, the House and Senate planned to vote …
Peter Baker / Washington Post:
Bush Veto Sets Stage for Budget Battle — President Bush vetoed a $606 billion spending bill Tuesday that would have funded education, health and labor programs for the current fiscal year, complaining that it was larded with pork and too expensive as he took aim at a top priority of the new Democratic Congress.
New York Times:
Bush Vetoes Major Domestic Spending Measure — President Bush on Tuesday vetoed a major spending measure that would have funded education, health care and job training programs, saying it contained money for too many of the special projects known as earmarks.
Ezra Klein:
His Ideas Are Good, But I Want More Bullet Points — So we're back to arguing about John Edwards' plan to strip members of Congress of their health care if they don't pass comprehensive reform. I'm always astonished at how bizarrely literally pundits act when they approach this idea.
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Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
Creative Destruction — The best case against universal health care. — More than a decade ago, Michael Kinsley, the journalist and former editor of this magazine, developed Parkinson's disease—a degenerative condition that impairs motor and speech control, producing tremors, rigidity, and eventually severe disability.
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The Fact Hub:
Sen. Edwards Proposes Unconstitutional Law In New Ad — Sen. Edwards has a new TV advertisement about health care where he proposes the following law: … The problem is, Sen. Edwards doesn't have the power to take health care away from Congress unilaterally—he'd have to propose a law.
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Ben Smith / The Politico:
Vultures circling in Iowa — A key Obama supporter in Iowa, former Democratic Party Chair Gordon Fischer, offered a glimpse into where his campaign sees growth: In scooping up Edwards supporters. — "It's going to move much more to a two-person race - Barack Obama and Hillary," …
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Jeff Zeleny / The Caucus:A Not-So-Perfect Picture of Party Unity
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Jonah Goldberg / The Corner:
Say It Enough Times It Must Be True — First the Clinton campaign whines that the other candidates were picking on the girl. Then, standing up to Russert is like standing up to Hitler. Then Bill Clinton compared Russert to the Swift Boat Vets. Now the Clinton campaign is warning Wolf Blizter that he better not "pull a Russert."
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Roger Simon / The Politico:Note to HRC staffers: Trust your candidate
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The Politico:
Democrats remain stalled on Iraq debate — As the congressional session lurches toward a close, Democrats are confronting some demoralizing arithmetic on Iraq. — The numbers tell a story of political and substantive paralysis more starkly than most members are willing to acknowledge publicly, or perhaps even to themselves.
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Brian Faughnan / Weekly Standard:Dems Fool Netroots: Quietly Fund Iraq While Talking Tough
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WJXT-TV:
Man Found Dead, Stuck In Cat Door — \32-Year-Old Trying To Get In Girlfriend's Home — ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. — St. Johns County deputies recently launched an investigation into what they called one of the strangest accidents they've ever seen when a man was found dead after getting stuck in a cat door.
Greg Sargent / Election Central:
Full Video: McCain Says Supporter's "Bitch" Query About Hillary Is "An Excellent Question" — Below we noted that a local Fox affiliate had reported on a John McCain event in South Carolina where he'd stood by while one of his supporters called Hillary a "bitch."
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The Sandmonkey / Rantings of a Sandmonkey:
Karim Amer is getting tortured in Prison — Abdel Karim Soliman, famously now known as Karim Amer, who got jailed for "disdain for religion" and "insulting the president" on his blog, is reportedly getting tortured by the Prison authorities. … I wish I could say I am surprised by this …
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Atrios / Eschaton:
Mortgage Reform and Anti-Predatory Lending Act of 2007 — It's one of those below the radar things, but there's a fight brewing between mortgage brokers and the rest of us over legislation. There's legislation to outlaw something called "yield spread premiums" in which brokers are given …
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Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:
Turn-Around In Iraq — My optimistic military emailer from yesterday, it needs to be said, added this vital caveat: … And the news on that front remains as dire as ever. That's why I find Glenn Reynolds' view of what's happening in Iraq to be more than typically glib.
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Post Critic Page Apologizes for E-Mail Remarks To Barry Aide — A Pulitzer Prize-winning writer for The Washington Post has apologized to D.C. Council member Marion Barry for sending an intemperate e-mail to his spokesman. — "It's the stupidest thing I've done in 30 years in journalism," music critic Tim Page said yesterday.
Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Court takes no action on gun case — The Supreme Court on Tuesday announced no action on a new case testing the meaning of the Second Amendment — an issue the Court has not considered in 68 years. The Orders List contained no mention of either the District of Columbia's appeal (07-290) …
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