memeorandum: Romney Eyes Huckabee Lead (Washington Post)

2:50 PM ET, December 29, 2007

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Bhutto exhumation okay, Pakistan official says — ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) — The Pakistani government has no problem with officials from Benazir Bhutto's political party exhuming the slain opposition leader's body if they see a need to do so, an Interior Ministry spokesman said Saturday.

Discussion: Guardian, Hindustan Times, The Newshoggers, The Moderate Voice, Voice of America, The Gun Toting Liberal™, Associated Press, At-Largely, Time, The Impolitic, Macsmind, On Deadline and Blogs of War

Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT FOREIGN POLICY....In October, David Brooks …

Discussion: Matthew Yglesias

Telegraph:
Pakistan offers to exhume Benazir Bhutto

Discussion: Jules Crittenden, Captain's Quarters, Agence France Presse, New York Times, A Blog For All, PoliGazette, Time and New York Post

Washington Post:
The Pakistan Test — Some presidential candidates show …

Discussion: Ben Smith's Blogs, TalkLeft and CNN

David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Remarks on Pakistan Are Tailing Huckabee

Discussion: MSNBC, Wizbang, CALIFORNIA YANKEE, Betsy's Page, Brendan Nyhan and The Politico

CNN:
Three causes of death for Bhutto in 36 hours

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, BAGnewsNotes, THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS, skippy the bush kangaroo, Hot Air and Associated Press

Washington Post:
U.S. Fears Greater Turmoil In Region

Discussion: Political Machine, AMERICAblog, Prairie Weather, PBD, MSNBC, New York Times and Asia Times

Robert Novak / Real Clear Politics:

Huckabee Slipping — WASHINGTON — While public polls show Mike Huckabee leading Mitt Romney in Iowa, a new survey of an oversized sample shows Huckabee slipping and no longer ahead of Romney. — A private corporate interest commissioned a phone bank survey of 15,000 Iowans …

Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …, Captain's Quarters and Power Line

Washington Post:

Romney Eyes Huckabee Lead — Onetime Favorite Launches 11th-Hour Attacks — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney launched a fresh attack Friday on rival Mike Huckabee, raising the stakes in the tense two-person contest in Iowa that could prove critical to both candidates' hopes of winning the GOP nomination.

Discussion: The New Republic, Captain's Quarters, Boston Globe, The Caucus, MSNBC and PoliGazette

New York Times:

Candidates Digging for a Deeper Pool of Iowa Voters — DES MOINES — Senator Barack Obama is on the hunt for Iowans who have never participated in the state's presidential caucuses, including independent voters under 50 and students who will be 18 by the general election.

Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:

Romney dings McCain again in immigration-only NH spot — Mitt Romney continues to pour it on in New Hampshire, going up with a new spot today directly contrasting his immigration record with that of John McCain.

Los Angeles Times:
Romney at center of GOP ad battle

Discussion: Hotline On Call, Hot Air and Riehl World View

Marc Hansen / Des Moines Register:
McCain could be comeback codger

Discussion: The Caucus

Faiz / Think Progress:

Kristol: The New York Times ‘Should Be Prosecuted,’ 'It Isn't A First-Rate Newspaper' — For years, Bill Kristol has been at the forefront of a vitriolic right-wing crusade against the New York Times. Sadly, the Times has chosen to reward him for it. — After the New York Times …

Discussion: THE LIBERAL JOURNAL, Wake up America and Booman Tribune

Matthew Yglesias:

All's Well — When I heard that Bill Kristol was leaving Time I got seriously worried about the state of the world. After all, everyone knows that conservative pundits don't get held accountable for saying tons and tons of wrong stuff — that's not how it works.

Discussion: Blog of the Moderate Left, The Edge of the American West, The Huffington Post, American Power, Washington Monthly, Bark Bark Woof Woof and The Anonymous Liberal

Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:

Kristol gets an unearned promotion — Recently cast off from Time magazine, presumably for writing shallow, predictable tripe, the Weekly Standard's William Kristol is getting a promotion of sorts. … If the report is accurate, and Kristol is joining the Times' roster …

Discussion: NewsBusters.org, UrbanGrounds, alicublog, Lawyers, Guns and Money and Angry Bear

Matt Bai / New York Times:

Invisible Blogger — The sidewalks of Harlem's main thoroughfares are wide and inviting, and in the 1960s the kids playing “boxball” shared the asphalt squares with some of the greatest orators in creation. The most famous spot for speechifying was the “Speakers' Corner” …

Discussion: Liberty Street, Chris Dodd National Blog, Tom Watson, driftglass, Althouse, American Street and TBogg

Jesse Wendel / Group News Blog: NY Times Magazine: Steven Gilliard Jr.

Ann Althouse / Althouse:
“You may have seen that some Hillary Clinton 'sock puppets …

Discussion: The Caucus

Aaron Keith Harris / xeniagazette.1upmonitor.com:

Hobson helps make gas station a reality — WILBERFORCE — More than 25 years after he nearly ran out of gas there, Rep. Dave Hobson was finally able to fill up in Wilberforce Thursday at a new Speedway SuperAmerica gas station at U.S. Route 42 and Brush Row Road.

Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:

Because Oil Companies And Pizza Hut Couldn't Afford It — I've figured out how to get conservatives and liberals together on the issue of pork. All we need to do is show how earmarks put money in the pockets of a progressive bete noir, and if possible, throw in a dash of Congressional cluelessness.

Discussion: The Newshoggers

Rudy Giuliani / You Decide 08!:

RUDY GIULIANI VETERANS' CO-CHAIRMAN RESIGNS OVER MUSLIM REMARKS — A co-chairman for Rudy Giuliani's veterans' coalition in New Hampshire resigned Saturday after telling a British newspaper that Muslims need to be chased “back to their caves." — The response was swift …

Discussion: Unfogged, Washington Monthly, The Carpetbagger Report, Horses Mouth and Blue Hampshire

Michelle Malkin:

Impeachment Watch: Extreme BDS in Vermont — Frustrated by the failure of the Dem leadership to carry through with impeachment, some Bush-haters in Brattleboro, Vermont want to subject President Bush and VP Cheney to arrest if they set foot in their town. Consider it sort of a do-it-yourself impeachment alternative:

Discussion: The Corner, The Sundries Shack, Hot Air, Dohiyi Mir, Dr. Sanity, JammieWearingFool, Associated Press, BitsBlog, Impeach Bush For Peace, Runnin' Scared and The Jawa Report

Chuck Simmins / America's North Shore Journal:

A Milestone in Iraq You Won't See in the Paper — Sometime on December 27, 2007, in a fierce gun battle in Al Kut, a milestone was reached. — The 20,000 AIF [Anti Iraqi Forces] terrorist was killed by our troops. — In many ways that anonymous soul typifies the war as it is now being fought.

Discussion: Jules Crittenden