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John Bresnahan / The Crypt's Blogs:
House Dems turn out the lights but GOP keeps talking — Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and the Democrats adjourned the House, turned off the lights and killed the microphones, but Republicans are still on the floor talking gas prices. — Minority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) …
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Confederate Yankee:
Obama's Netroots Supporters Continue “Blog Burning” — Let's Party Like It's 1933. — Tell me once more how progressives love free speech. … Online activists thought to be loyal to Barack Obama are once against using Google's software tools to target rival political blogs for elimination as spam blogs.
Edward Epstein / CQ.com:
House Adjourns, But Republicans Linger to Bash Democrats on Energy — The C-SPAN cameras were gone and the microphones were off, but that didn't stop a small group of Republicans from taking over the floor after the House adjourned for five weeks to attack Democrats for leaving town without doing something to lower gas prices.
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Power Line, Washington Wire, michellemalkin.com, The Anonymous Liberal and The Huffington Post
Mark Hemingway / The Corner:
The Guerilla Congress — I just got back a short while ago …
The Guerilla Congress — I just got back a short while ago …
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The Hill's Pundits Blog
John Bresnahan / The Crypt's Blogs:
Dems turn out the lights but GOP won't go home Part II
Dems turn out the lights but GOP won't go home Part II
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Political Machine, michellemalkin.com, The Carpetbagger Report, MyDD, The Hill and Patterico's Pontifications
CBS News:
Exclusive: Al Qaeda No. 2 Injured? — Unverified Letter Obtained By CBS News Urgently Requests Doctor To Treat Ayman al Zawahiri — (CBS) Ayman al Zawahiri - the second most powerful leader in al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden's No. 2 - may be critically wounded and possibly dead …
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Dr. Rusty Shackleford / The Jawa Report:
Report: Al Qaeda #2 Ayman al-Zawahiri Dead!?! (Bumped) — Stratfor reports that the United States is attempting to verify rumors coming out of Pakistan that al Qaeda's #2, Ayman al-Zawahiri, was killed in a July 28 Predator airstrike. — Intelligence sources told The Jawa Report last week …
Mark Mooney / ABCNEWS:
Obama Aide Concedes ‘Dollar Bill’ Remark Referred to His Race — Obama Strategist Calls McCain's Attack Ad Insulting; McCain Camp Defends It — Sen. Barack Obama's chief strategist conceded that the Democratic presidential candidate was referring to his race when he said Republicans …
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Adam Smith / The Buzz:
Obama responds to race card charge — In an interview with the St. Pete Times and Bay News 9 for Political Connections, Barack Obama brushed off the charge from the John McCain campaign that he was injecting race into the campaign: — “I was in union, Missouri which is 98 percent white …
Dan Balz / The Trail:
Race Card Charges and Campaign Discord Mark Dog Days of Summer
Race Card Charges and Campaign Discord Mark Dog Days of Summer
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Mike Glover / Associated Press:
Obama shifts, says he may back offshore drilling — ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Friday he would be willing to support limited additional offshore oil drilling if that's what it takes to enact a comprehensive policy to foster fuel-efficient autos and develop alternate energy sources.
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Gavin M. / Sadly, No!:
Even Worseness: The Even-Worsening — Um, wow. You know that Amy Chozick piece in the Wall Street Journal that asks whether Barack Obama might not be fat enough to be President? — Here's the on-the-ground research that enabled Ms. Chozick to pose such a bold and allusive query:
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Richard Blair / All Spin Zone:
Anthrax Suspect Kills Self - How Conveeeeeeeenient... Bruce Ivins, a bioweapons scientist at Ft. Detrick, Md. reportedly killed himself via overdose earlier this week. He was about to be indicted in connection with the 2001 anthrax attacks (remember those?).
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Ben Smith / The Politico:
Obama camp responds: ‘sad...juvenile antics’ — Barack Obama's campaign responded sharply to a new McCain webad depicting Obama as a parody of a biblical prophet. — “It's downright sad that on a day when we learned that 51,000 Americans lost their jobs, a candidate for the presidency …
Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Race Tied at 44% — Registered voters evenly split in their support for Obama versus McCain — PRINCETON, NJ — According to Gallup Poll Daily tracking from July 29-31, John McCain and Barack Obama are now tied at 44% in the preferences of national registered voters.
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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
McCain's Ad Formula Employs Lowest Common Denominator — In a celebrity-driven culture that has left little space for John McCain, the Republican presidential candidate has decided to go tabloid. — By featuring Paris Hilton and Britney Spears in an attack ad against Barack Obama …
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TPM Election Central
Ben / Think Progress:
Judge on Rove's citizen arrest: 'It's about time.' — Last Friday, police in Des Moines, Iowa arrested four people who attempted to make a citizens' arrest of former top White House aide Karl Rove, who was in town to speak at a GOP fundraiser. A retired minister and three members …
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Iowa Politics
Michael Saul / NY Daily News:
Hil, no! Don't nominate me — Hillary Clinton has decided against being nominated for President at the Democrats' Denver convention, but many of her more die-hard partisans may vote for her anyway. — A source close to the New York senator confirmed she won't file a formal request …
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Blooper: Hannity punks himself on anti-McCain Campain ad. — Friday bloopers! — Sean Hannity was in fine form last night as he had his fresh new Obama-GOP-attack-talking points ready to go. (I don't think Scott McClellan passed them off this time.) He wanted his audience …