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Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Americans Widely Disappointed With Democrats in Congress — Majority more displeased than content with handling of seven issues — PRINCETON, NJ — Amidst a swirl of public dissatisfaction about the Iraq war, the economy, government corruption, and with President Bush more generally …
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Tapscott's Copy Desk:
Gallup documents public disgust with Congress; Big Government faces paralysis by promise — Gallup's latest survey turns up extensive evidence of deep public disgust with the performance of the Democratic majority in Congress. On six major issues, Gallup found solid majorities either disappointed …
David S. Broder / Washington Post:
The Icebergs Ahead For the Democrats — As the Democratic presidential race finally gets down to brass tacks, two issues are becoming paramount. But only one of them is clearly on the table. — That is the issue of illegal immigration. A very smart Democrat, a veteran of the Clinton administration …
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Greg Sargent / Horses Mouth:
David Broder Again Writes About Clinton Marriage — Less Than A Week After Vowing Not To — Wow, that didn't take long. David Broder, in a chat with readers last Friday: … David Broder, in his column today: … Now, Broder can write about whatever the hell he wants, as far as this blog is concerned.
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The Atlantic Online
Thomas E. Ricks / Washington Post:
Iraqis Wasting An Opportunity, U.S. Officers Say — With Attacks Ebbing, Government Is Urged to Reach Out to Opponents — CAMP LIBERTY, Iraq — Senior military commanders here now portray the intransigence of Iraq's Shiite-dominated government as the key threat facing the U.S. effort in Iraq …
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Washington Post:
Strategic Drift — With apparent disregard for the opinion of the American people, the debate over whether the large U.S. military presence in Iraq threatens our national security has been put on hold. Both political parties seem resigned to allowing the Bush administration to run out the clock …
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The American Street
Jake Tapper / ABCNEWS:
Pardon Me? — Hillary Clinton Takes Cash From Recipients of Husband's Controversial Pardons — Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., speaks about her health care policy on Sept. 18, 2007. An examination of Clinton's fundraising donors reveals three donors …
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Jason Zengerle / The New Republic:
Is a Unified Field Theory of Hillary Hatred Possible? — Ross Baker gives a quote to the NYT about Hillary that shows why political scientists make bad political strategists: … That's a devastating accusation all right—but it's devastating to the candidate who makes it.
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Bill Walsh / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
Jefferson case could change bribery laws — Congress moves to redefine 'official acts' — WASHINGTON — Bribery has been around as long as politics, but recent provocative legal challenges have prompted Congress to look at rewriting the laws to spell out more clearly what it means to be on the take.
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Martina Stewart / CNN Political Ticker:
New Attorney General opposes changes to wiretap law
New Attorney General opposes changes to wiretap law
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Think Progress
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Mitt Romney: Perfect tough guy for right-wing war cheerleaders — A New York Times profile this morning details what Mitt Romney was doing during the Vietnam War. Although the article reflects quite poorly on his character, it demonstrates why his candidacy is resonating among our country's right-wing war-cheerleading faction.
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Agence France Presse:
Saudi punishes gang rape victim with 200 lashes — A court in the ultra-conservative kingdom of Saudi Arabia is punishing a female victim of gang rape with 200 lashes and six months in jail, a newspaper reported on Thursday. — The 19-year-old woman — whose six armed attackers …
New York Times:
U.S. Is Looking Past Musharraf in Case He Falls — Almost two weeks into Pakistan's political crisis, Bush administration officials are losing faith that the Pakistani president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, can survive in office and have begun discussing what might come next, according to senior administration officials.
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Ari Melber / The Nation:
NEW CLINTON QUESTIONS?... As Hillary Clinton aims to regain momentum in tonight's presidential debate, new videos have surfaced on YouTube with young voters asking her questions that are similar to the fake question posed by a Grinnell college student last week.
Gretchen Morgenson / New York Times:
Foreclosures Hit a Snag for Lenders — A federal judge in Ohio has ruled against a longstanding foreclosure practice, potentially creating an obstacle for lenders trying to reclaim properties from troubled borrowers and raising questions about the legal standing of investors in mortgage securities pools.
Daniel Henninger / Opinion Journal:
1968: The Long Goodbye — Can America rise above the divisions of the 1960s? Not yet. — It's too bad Barack Obama wasn't able to meet Abbie Hoffman. I don't know if Hillary Clinton ever met Hoffman, who died in 1989, but like any young person up and running in America in the late 1960s, she knows him well.
Washington Post:
Mr. Chavez's Coup — TENS OF thousands of Venezuelan students marched to the Supreme Court in Caracas last week to protest the new "socialist" constitutional reform that President Hugo Chavez is preparing to impose on the country. On their return, students from the Central University …