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Bush confronted Rove's sins in church — Fired and brimestone — If you're going to fire someone, you want to make sure you do it in a place where the now-unemployed can't make a scene. — You know...a place like, say, a church. — That, according to a new book - “Machiavelli's Shadow” …
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The Huffington Post
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Justin Rood / ABCNEWS:
President Met Disgraced Lobbyist At Least Six Times — The White House Had Previously Acknowledged Only Two Meetings — The White House had stronger ties to disgraced superlobbyist Jack Abramoff than it has publicly admitted, according to a draft congressional report released Monday.
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The Gavel
Laurie Kellman / Associated Press:
McClellan to testify before House in CIA leak case — WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush's former spokesman, Scott McClellan, will testify before a House committee next week about whether Vice President Dick Cheney ordered him to make misleading public statements about the leaking of CIA agent Valerie Plame's identity.
The Raw Story:
DEM LAWMAKER PRESENTS ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT AGAINST PRESIDENT BUSH — An Ohio Democratic lawmaker and former presidential candidate has presented articles of impeachment against President George W. Bush to Congress. — Thirty-five articles were presented by Rep. Dennis Kucinich to the House …
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Joseph A. Palermo / The Huffington Post:
Dennis Kucinich Makes History Again - Impeach Bush! — Representative Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, just finished reading on the House floor a 35-count impeachment resolution against President George W. Bush. Kucinich's lengthy and detailed indictment of this wayward president is the most thorough and powerful case made to date.
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The Other McCain
Matthew Hay Brown / The Swamp:
Kucinich: Impeach Bush — Rep. Dennis Kucinich, who introduced legislation last year to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney, is now aiming higher. — On the House floor this evening, the Ohio Democrat proposed impeaching President Bush. In language similar to that in the articles …
Oliver Willis:
John McCain: Putin Is The President Of Germany — You learn new things all the time! — (Nobody tell Angela Merkel that Pooty-poot got her job!)
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Cernig / Newshoggers.com:
Senile? — John McCain thinks Putin is president of Germany!
Senile? — John McCain thinks Putin is president of Germany!
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Brilliant at Breakfast
Dave Johnson / The Huffington Post:
Today's Obama Smear Attempt — Here's one of the ways the right's smear machine works. Far-right blogs post something. Then a site higher up their food chain picks it up, like NewsMax, CNSNews, WorldNetDaily or Politico. Then the Drudge Report or Moon's Washington Times gets it from there and spreads the story further.
The Campaign Spot:
Obama Could Debunk Some Rumors By Releasing His Birth Certificate. — Having done some Obama-rumor debunking that got praise from Daily Kos (a sign of the apocalypse, no doubt), perhaps the Obama campaign could return the favor and help debunk a bunch of others with a simple step: Could they release a copy of his birth certificate?
Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Obama Takes Lead Over McCain, 48% to 42% — Has consistently led McCain since Clinton decided to suspend campaign — PRINCETON, NJ — Barack Obama is enjoying a modest bump in support following Hillary Clinton's exit from the presidential race.
Washington Post:
The Reformers As Fundraisers — Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain are turning their undivided attention to the general election this week, loading their schedules with fundraising events that will fuel their campaign through the summer. But advisers to the White House hopefuls …
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John M. Broder / New York Times:
With Fall Vote in View, Obama Assails McCain on Economy
With Fall Vote in View, Obama Assails McCain on Economy
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Daily Kos
Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
Playing the Carter card — In separate interviews today, John McCain compared Barack Obama to Jimmy Carter. — Speaking to Fox's Carl Cameron, McCain raised Carter's name, putting a face on his assertion that Obama wants to return “to the failed policies of the '60's and '70's.”
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Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
Obama Says He's Partnering With Elizabeth Edwards On Health Care — Obama's speech in Raleigh launching his economy tour is underway, and towards the end, during a discussion of health care, he drops a surprise aside that wasn't in the speech's prepared remarks: … More on this when we can establish the details.
Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
Austan Goolsbee Lives! — Now that the Dem primary is officially over, it's safe for the Obama campaign to let economics adviser Austan Goolsbee (remember NAFTA-gate?) start publicly making the case for Obama's economic policies. — And so, today on a conference call today with reporters …
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CNN:
McCain resurrects call for gas tax holiday — From CNN Political Producer Peter Hamby, CNN's Dana Bash — WASHINGTON (CNN) - With gas prices reaching a national average of four dollars a gallon — a record high — John McCain is planning to resurrect his call for a national gas tax holiday …
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The Carpetbagger Report, Reuters, Obsidian Wings, Below The Beltway, Jonathan Martin's Blogs, The Reaction, Argghhh!, Blog entry and Don Surber
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See-Dubya / michellemalkin.com:
Why the MyBO antisemitic moonbats matter (and why the site may have been pulled?) — NOTE: As I write this, I see Charles reporting that the whole MyBarackObama site has been taken offline. For maintenance? Will it return, or is it going under the bus? — A few bloggers whose opinions …
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GINA COBB, The Sundries Shack, The Urban Grind, Israel Matzav, damnum absque injuria and Salon
Thomas Lifson / American Thinker:
What kind of war crimes trials does Obama plan? (updated) — Barack Obama's plan for imposing unity on the nation after he takes office apparently entails a close look at war crimes trials for Bush administration officials. He has even said so in an interview with Will Bunch of the Philadelphia Daily News.
Michael Luo / New York Times:
For Clinton, Millions in Campaign Debt and Limited Options — With her campaign now officially suspended, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is confronting still another challenge: whittling down what is believed to be the largest presidential campaign debt in history.
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Swampland