Top Items:
Stephanie Strom / New York Times:
Anti-Bush Sign Has Bridge World in an Uproar — In the genteel world of bridge, disputes are usually handled quietly and rarely involve issues of national policy. But in a fight reminiscent of the brouhaha over an anti-Bush statement by Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks in 2003 …
Discussion:
Firedoglake, michellemalkin.com, Outside The Beltway, The Newshoggers, Wonkette, The Carpetbagger Report, Taylor Marsh, Jon Swift, AMERICAblog, The Sundries Shack, Political Machine, Hot Air, The Gun Toting Liberal™, Gateway Pundit, Weasel Zippers, The Garlic, TPMCafe blogs, Truthdig, Macsmind, Neptunus Lex, The American Street and Sister Toldjah
Peter Berkowitz / Opinion Journal:
The Insanity of Bush Hatred — Our politics suffer when passions overcome reason and vitriol becomes virtue. — Hating the president is almost as old as the republic itself. The people, or various factions among them, have indulged in Clinton hatred, Reagan hatred, Nixon hatred …
Discussion:
The Atlantic Online, Salon, Crunchy Con, Blue Crab Boulevard, Chicago Boyz and Dean's World
David Hill / The Hill:
Ron Paul: Trouble back home — While Texan Ron Paul's stock is soaring nationally, there is trouble on the home front. In September, Paul finished third in a straw poll of 1,300 Texas Republican activists who had been delegates to recent Republican conventions.
RELATED:
Rasmussen Reports:
Election 2008: Clinton 42% Giuliani 39% Ron Paul 8% — The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found Hillary Clinton leading Rudy Giuliani by three percentage points in a four-way race that includes Ron Paul running as a Libertarian candidate and Ralph Nader representing the Green Party.
Discussion:
Reason Magazine, Rasmussen Reports, The American Street, Hot Air, Los Angeles Times and protein wisdom
The Hill:
Senate Dem leaders float plan for forced filibuster — Senate Democrats might force Republicans to wage a filibuster if the GOP wants to block the latest Iraq withdrawal bill, aides and senators said Tuesday. — That could set the stage for a dramatic end-of-the-year partisan showdown …
Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
VOTER ID....The State of Indiana has the most stringent voter ID laws in the country. Democrats are always griping about this, and have even gone so far as to challenge Indiana's law in the Supreme Court. But this is just silly. In this day and age everyone has a photo ID anyway, so what's the problem?
RELATED:
New York Times:
F.B.I. Says Guards Killed 14 Iraqis Without Cause — Federal agents investigating the Sept. 16 episode in which Blackwater security personnel shot and killed 17 Iraqi civilians have found that at least 14 of the shootings were unjustified and violated deadly-force rules in effect …
Mark Z. Barabak / Los Angeles Times:
Bush strategist looks back in sadness — AT HIS TEXAS RANCH: Matthew Dowd, political strategist and former Bush advisor, says of the president: "I don't think he's evil or bad. I think he's a good person that didn't accomplish what he set out to do." — Matthew Dowd helped win the White House.
Kevin / Stop Her Now:
Trouble for Hillary in Ohio — Hillary is getting some bad news about the key state of Ohio. The most recent Quinnipiac poll is full of bad news for the former first lady. Let's run down the bullet points: — Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and New York …
Discussion:
Political Machine
RELATED:
John Hawkins / Right Wing News:
The Kathleen Willey Interview — Yesterday, I did a phone interview with Kathleen Willey, who has a new book out: Target: Caught in the Crosshairs of Bill and Hillary Clinton. — What follows is a transcript of our conversation, edited slightly for readability's sake.
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Who Wants To Be The Analog To Kos At Newsweek? — Via a number of sources, Markos Moulitsas has won a column assignment at Newsweek. In a press release, the magazine announced that Markos will occasionally appear in both the print and on-line versions of the periodical …
Richelieu / Weekly Standard:
Giuliani's House of Mirrors — The Giuliani campaign is playing a beautiful game of three card monte with the national media regarding the expectations game in Iowa and New Hampshire - not that I've ventured out of the Cathedral to actually witness such a sinful game of tricks and deceit. ...
Discussion:
The Corner
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Dissension hits Romney campaign — Mitt Romney's presidential campaign has television ads and mailings on standby to attack Rudy Giuliani but so far has not used them because of an internal dispute about the risks of a backlash in going negative on the Republican front-runner …
New York Times:
President of Columbia Is Criticized — Lee C. Bollinger, the president of Columbia University, was confronted yesterday by discontented professors who gathered more than 100 faculty signatures for a document criticizing his leadership. — Their "statement of concern," read to him at a faculty meeting …
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Should Hillary Pretend to Be a Flight Attendant? — In 2005, a year after Ellie Grossman, a doctor, met Ray Fisman, a professor, on a blind date, she was talking to her grandmother about her guy. — "Never let a man think you're smarter," her grandmother advised. "Men don't like that."
Discussion:
Whiskey Fire, NewsBusters.org, Connecting.the.Dots, Lawyers, Guns and Money and The American Street
Rep. Jim McGovern / The Huffington Post:
Senator Obama's Curious Comments on Meet the Press — I support Senator Clinton's White House bid because I believe she is the one candidate with the strength and experience to actually end the war in Iraq. — I thought Iraq was the wrong war at the wrong time and have been fighting …