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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, Think Progress, The Anonymous Liberal, Washington Wire, michellemalkin.com and The Huffington Post
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, The Politico, michellemalkin.com, The Carpetbagger Report, MyDD and Patterico's Pontifications
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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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 …
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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JustOneMinute, D-Day, MyDD, Hullabaloo, Hot Air, Atlas Shrugs, Riehl World View, www.redstate.com and Open Left
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St. Petersburg Times:
Considering new energy plan, Obama softens stance on drilling — ST. PETERSBURG — Long an opponent of offshore drilling, Sen. Barack Obama offered encouraging words for a bipartisan energy plan that would permit oil drilling within 50 miles of Florida's west coast.
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NewsRadio 740 - KTRH:
Bush Family on Rush — The Bush family called in to the Rush Limbaugh show this morning. Listen Here! — RUSH: What are...? (interruption) Interrupting for what? — THE PRESIDENT: Hello! — RUSH: Oh, jeez. The president? — THE PRESIDENT: Rush Limbaugh? — RUSH: Yes, sir, Mr. President.
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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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Hot Air, Marc Ambinder, Casting Stones, Texas on the Potomac, The Other McCain and www.redstate.com
Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State:
The nonpuzzle of the close election polls — The economy is going badly, Bush is unpopular, so why is Obama up only slightly in the polls? This is the question that is (currently) puzzling the political world. A quick answer: the economy isn't going so badly by historical standards …
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 …
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Plouffe: McCain attacks ‘helped our campaign,’ moneywise — In a video sent to donors, Obama campaign manager David Plouffe says the campaign received 100,000 contributions yesterday, a third of them from first-time donors. — “I think John McCain has harmed himself in the last week …