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3:55 PM ET, August 2, 2007

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Jon Krawczynski / Associated Press:
Hopes Dim in Minneapolis for Survivors  —  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Divers searched the Mississippi River for bodies Thursday among the submerged cars and twisted steel left by deadly interstate bridge collapse, their hopes of finding survivors having dimmed.  —  "This is not a rescue operation any longer …
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Stephen Flynn / Popular Mechanics:
Minn. Bridge Collapse Reveals Brittle America: Expert Op-Ed  —  Yesterday's tragedy makes it clear that the U.S. has been squandering its infrastructure legacy by turning a reckless blind eye to critical upgrades, says a national security expert, former Coast Guard officer and senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Dan Browning / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Bridge was rated 'structurally deficient' in 2005  —  The highway bridge that collapsed into the Mississippi River on Wednesday was rated as "structurally deficient" two years ago and possibly in need of replacement.  —  The highway bridge that collapsed into the Mississippi River on Wednesday was rated as …
Rose Garden / White House:
President Bush Offers Sympathies and Assistance to Minneapolis and Calls on Congress to Act Before Recess  —  THE PRESIDENT: Good morning.  I just finished a Cabinet meeting.  One of the things we discussed was the terrible situation there in Minneapolis.  We talked about the fact …
Jon Krawczynski / Associated Press:   Police: More victims in submerged cars
Deb Riechmann / Associated Press:
White House cites deficiencies in bridge
Discussion: Attytood
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The Politico:
Obama on nukes: policy or character?  (Updated)  —  The latest Obama story, from an interview with The Associated Press, isn't online yet, but get ready: It's an interview* in which Obama initially rules out the use of nuclear weapons entirely, then seems to take it back:
Peter Brookes / New York Post:
BARACK'S BLUNDER  —  INVADE A NUCLEAR POWER?  —  IN an "I am too tougher than Hillary" speech, Sen. Barack Obama warned Pakistan yes terday that as commander-in-chief he might act unilaterally if Islamabad didn't do more against the terrorists there.  —  "Let me make this clear …
John Harwood / Wall Street Journal:
America's Economic Mood: Gloomy  —  Broad Public Pessimism  —  Spurs Democratic Candidates  —  To Target Business Interests  —  WASHINGTON — Americans are feeling decidedly sour about the economy and those in charge of it, fueling Democratic efforts to target business interests in the 2008 election campaign.
Discussion: Thought Theater, MSNBC and Pollster.com
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Editor and Publisher:
170 Cancel 'WSJ' Subscriptions — But How Many Will Follow?
Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:   Edwards assails rivals over News Corp.
Newsweek:
Judge's ruling spurs scramble for spy powers  —  A federal judge's secret ruling restricting the intelligence community's surveillance powers helped spur a Capitol Hill bid to grant Bush new authority.  —  A secret ruling by a federal judge has restricted the U.S. intelligence community's surveillance …
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AJStrata / The Strata-Sphere:
Congressional Idiots Telling al-Qaeda How To Subvert Our Protections  —  Want to know WHY there is Executive Privelege in a time of war?  Because American lives are at stake and the debate in Congress completely neutralizes our so called SECRET defenses against another 9-11.
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The Corner:   General Obama  —  Many have jumped all over Sen. Obama's suggestion …
Los Angeles Times:
D.C. elites want you to shush on Iraq  —  Be afraid when the same centrist consensus that has a lousy track record on the war lashes out at partisans.  —  By By Matthew Yglesias  —  The united states is now well into the fifth year of a war in Iraq that has, at a cost of hundreds of billions of dollars …
Discussion: Ezra Klein
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David Stout / New York Times:
With Rove Absent, Aide Is Grilled by Senate Panel  —  The Senate Judiciary Committee grilled a young political aide from the White House today about the firings of nine United States attorneys and voiced disdain for a man who was not there: the aide's boss, Karl Rove, President Bush's chief political adviser.
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Melanie Markley / Houston Chronicle:
Students must remember 'God' in Texas pledge  —  Texas students will have four more words to remember when they head back to class this month and begin reciting the state's pledge of allegiance.  —  This year's Legislature added the phrase "one state under God" to the pledge …
Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
Shockingly Predictable  —  White House thumbs nose at yet another Congressional hearing.  H/T to nolo for the find: … As nolo points out, they aren't relying on any case law precedent to make this claim but, rather, a musty old memo that former Justice Rehnquist penned back in his DOJ days.
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Nolo / indict dick cheney:
senator leahy's august 1, 2007 response re rove and jennings
Discussion: TalkLeft
Editor and Publisher:
Bush Insults BBC Political Editor at Press Conference  —  NEW YORK At a recent press conference at Camp David, President George Bush insulted BBC political editor Nick Robinson, the Daily Mirror reports.  —  Robinson, who has asked Bush pointed questions in the past such as whetherthe president was …
Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
Edwards: "Giuliani is Bush on Steroids"  —  Just got back from an Edwards event in San Francisco.  He threw out a lot of red meat — in particular savaging the big oil, drug, and insurance companies — and these deep blue Americans loved every minute of it.  —  Edwards is awesome on the stump.
Discussion: No More Mister Nice Blog and MSNBC
Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
Specter: Gonzales A "Wily Witness"  —  So here's Sen. Arlen Specter's (R-PA) verdict on Alberto Gonzales' testimony, delivered during this morning's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing with Karl Rove's aide Scott Jennings.  —  Gonzales, he says, sought to mislead the committee …
 
 
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Rob / Say Anything:
Ed Schultz Blames Bush For Minnesota Bridge Collapse
Byron York / National Review Online:
The Vast Left-Wing Establishment
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Joseph L. Bruno / Opinion Journal:
A Special Counsel for Spitzer
ABCNEWS:
Deadly Bridge Collapses Through the Decades
Associated Press:
Bush administration readying immigration crackdown on employers
Discussion: Wake up America and Lonewacko
Mike Soraghan / The Hill:
House Dems upset over split on war
John D. Dingell / Washington Post:
The Power in the Carbon Tax
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NBC4:
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Hugh Hewitt / Townhall.com:
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Robert Pear / New York Times:
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