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- SNL destroys Hillary
- Oh my God. Watch it before it gets pulled.
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- 18 lanes. Pretty impressive.
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- The Washington Monthly: (h/t Bill W)IRAN’S WEAPONS….Tina Susman of the LA Times reports that Iranian involvement in Iraq’s civil war may not be everything it’s been cracked up to be:There was something interesting missing from Maj. Gen. Kevin Bergner’s introductory
- So Many Coincidences
- Womens Voices Womens Votes has another unfortunate coincidence in the timing of its voter registration mailings, this time in West Virginia.
- Overnight
- The schisms in The Liberal Blogosphere that have been lately discernible are to be lamented. I regret myself that it has come to this, but I must hereby hurl my despite in the teeth of The Editors.Here is a YouTube
- Bush issues new secrecy directive
- On Friday afternoon, with George Bush in Texas for his daughters wedding, the White House finally released its new Executive Branch rules for designating and disseminating what used to be known as sensitive information. The most common term in the
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- McCAIN CAMPAIGN DUMPS DOUG GOODYEAR: The PR executive John McCain just tapped to help run the GOP convention quit today after a report that his firm once represented the Burmese junta that is now...
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- This Week: Campaign Surrogate Carly Fiorina Doesn’t Believe In Economists
- First thing, was anyone else get surprised by the uncharacteristically accurate title given to Carly Fiorina in this segment of This Week with George Stephanopoulos? Normally, aren’t these surrogates usually called “advisors”? I guess I have to give the chyron
- Serbs vote in parliament elections
- BELGRADE, Serbia -- A pro-Western coalition was leading Serbias parliamentary elections, independent monitors said Sunday, suggesting that reformers might pull off a stunning upset in the closely contested vote...
- "I will never support Emily's List again."
- From Obsidian Wings blog:I honestly do not see how someone like Ellen Malcolm, who founded Emilys List, is still its President, and knows how politics works, could have written that the game is too close to call in good faith.
- What About The War?
- Without the war, there wouldnt have been any space for anyone to run against Clinton.
- McAuliffe: Need 'something big'
- Terry McAuliffe, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clintons (D-N.Y.) campaign chairman, admitted Sunday that something big would have to happen for his candidate to overtake Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.However, McAuliffe vowed that the campaign
- Air Cindy
- McCain is basically haggling over the definition of is, when it comes to campaign finance law. Not exactly the position Mr. Campaign Finance should be taking. Though its consistent with the way he went into the public finance system in
- Obama, McCain map fall strategies
- Both sides open to unmoderated debates across the country.
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- Group of Christian leaders tired of divisive politics, supports Dems issues.
- SNL's Clinton: 'I have no ethical standards'
- Last nights all new Saturday Night Live was hosted by actor Shia Labeouf. The show opened with Amy Poehler as Hillary Clinton giving a message to America. Poehlers Clinton says how the race is hopelessly deadlocked and she gives reasons
- Bloch dismissed Office of Special Council probe of Siegelman case.
- Last September, the U.S. Office of Special Council (OSC) opened an investigation “into whether partisan politics were a factor in the Justice Department’s prosecution of former Democratic Alabama governor Don Siegelman on corruption charges in 2006.” But a memo written
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- This is a tough one.It seems unlikely that hell go with Hillary for obvious reasons -- including the impossible prospect of Bill Clinton hanging out in the White House. But he should pick a woman and any other woman will
- Israel: Indictment in Olmert probe?
- A major development is expected Tuesday in the criminal probe against Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. The media has quoted senior law enforcement officials as saying that this affair is likely to remove him from office. While the nature of the
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- Gov. Matt Blunt or his top deputies ordered Missouris backup e-mail tapes to be destroyed to avoid complying with an open-records request from The Associated Press, a lawsuit filed by state investigators alleged Monday...
- Beer, Bowling and Bull Virus Strikes Again
- So now Hillary Rodham Clinton, educated at Wellesley and Yale Law, earner (with her husband) of $100 million in the last seven years, is talking about the elitist Barack Obama, formerly of the Harvard Law Review and possessor of a
- BREAKING: Wesley Clark reportedly called Hillary tonight, urging her to drop out
- Weve just been told that General Wesley Clark, a strong Clinton supporter and fellow Arkansan, called Hillary tonight to tell her its over.In addition to our source, the king of the pundits, Mark Halperin, drops
- NYT: Clinton advisers dispirited, campaign broke
- Are there are any real Democrats still working on that campaign? You people are part of the problem. You are hurting our chances of beating McCain in the fall. Youre as bad as
- Obama Takes Lead in Superdelegate Count
- Via Jake Tapper: Sen. Barack Obama moved into the lead today in the last category that Sen. Hillary Clinton had claimed to have an edge -- support among the Democratic Partys superdelegates. The Illinois Democrat grabbed the superdelegate lead thanks
- The video every SuperDelegate should see
- CBS News tonight was brutal to Hillary. It complied a bunch of the press coverage - again, brutal. Worst of all, they quote one of Hillarys own top strategists who says he told her (and then told the media he
- "Clinton official" tells Wash. Post: "We lost this thing in February." Okay, then wrap it up.
- Todays Washington Post gets the scoop on what some Clinton insiders are thinking. First, a top Clinton aide admits now what weve been saying. They lost a long time ago:Absent some sort of miracle on May 31st, its going to
- Intimidation Politics
- David Brooks writes this morning about the combative nature of the Clinton campaign. In watching Hillary try to intimidate her former employee Geoge Stephanopoulos, he marveled at her ability to spin her sham gas-tax holiday.This wasnt just shameless spin, it
- The Wright context
- In the just-published issue of National Review, Stanley Kurtz provides a detailed look at Rev. Wrights black liberation theolgy. He...
- Open Thread
- From “Meet the World,” a series of “flag graphs” by 25-year-old Brazilian artist Icaro Doria. h/t Sorghum Crow.Open Thread below…
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- Rumsfeld blames the generals for poor pre-war planning.
- In February 2003, Gen. Eric Shinseki famously predicted that “several hundred thousand” troops would be needed for post-war hostilities in Iraq. According to documents recently released by the Pentagon in response to The New York Times’s expose on its propaganda
- Superdelegates start to make their move?
- George Stephanopoulos said uncommitted superdelegates supporting Barack Obama “will come three, four, five at a time, and this nomination will be locked up.” We’re still a ways from a “locked up” nomination, but there was some movement on the superdelegate
- Election Thread
- ELECTION THREAD....Was I wrong? In the end, Obama won North Carolina by 14 points and Hillary Clinton eked out only a bare 2-point win in Indiana. Gas tax pandering didnt work, the arithmetic is even more stacked against her than...
- Banks: Law Can't Bother Us
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- Bernanke, the genious
- No, you dont say?High rates of delinquency and foreclosure can have substantial spillover effects on the housing market, the financial markets, and the broader economy, Bernanke said in remarks prepared for delivery to the Columbia University School of Business in
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- Should be fun, Howie Kurtzs Reliable Sources, maybe at 10AM Eastern, maybe later (Pope stuff is messing with the schedule tomorrow morning). My friend Jim Geraghty from National Review Online is going to be on with me. Jim liked the
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- The reviews are in. Lanny Davis is the undisputed winner of the worst spinner of the year. Tough competition, but he pulled it out with his latest screed at Huffington.Davis put together his top ten list about Obama. We put
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- North Carolina Republican Ad Says Obama Is Too 'Extreme'
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- Last week Bill Moyers sat down with Leila Fadel while she was stateside to receive a George Polk Award for Foreign Reporting. In this interview she bluntly lays bare all the spin on Iraq and Iran in a way that
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- Catblogging Research Note
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- “The people who know him like him least”
- Familiarity breeds...
- Former White Southern Senators Endorse Hopey
- Two conservative, Southern ex-Democratic senators have endorsed Barack Obama for president, even though their region of the country still makes its dollar via chattel slavery. Hooray for free blacks...
- The TED Spread
- THE TED SPREAD....The TED spread is the difference between the interest rate on 3-month treasury bills (safe as houses, um, well, really safe, anyway) and the rate banks charge each other for 3-month loans (the LIBOR rate). Id never heard...
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- Who's Not Bitter?
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- Debate Thread
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- Unflattering Photo Will Make Hillary Win Pennsylvania
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- Attack from multi-millionaires (Clinton & McCain) on Obama backfires -- big time.
- Yesterday, Hillary Clinton and her friend, John McCain, teamed up to attack Obama. It was another frivolous -- and disingenuous -- attack over remarks Obama made describing the lives and frustrations of real Americans. As if Clinton and McCain have