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Marc Ambinder is reporting that McCain has also lost Mark Salter. The departure of Salter and Weaver marks the end of one of the most charismatic and legendary political braintrusts this town has seen — especially considering that they never actually won the presidency. Journalists regarded Salter as McCain’s alter-ego and he was the …

Which just issued this statement, even as John McCain speaks from Senate floor about Iraq:

ARLINGTON, VA – Terry Nelson, Campaign Manager and John Weaver, Chief Strategist for John McCain 2008 issued the following statements:

“This morning I informed Senator McCain that I would be resigning from his presidential campaign, effective

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Between the battle over Iraq policy that is beginning on the Senate floor and the confrontation over executive privilege that appears headed toward the courts, there has never been a moment in his presidency when George Bush so badly needed public confidence and goodwill. Instead, along comes the new USA Today/Gallup poll, showing his …

Slate’s Dickerson with a smart, irritated, funny piece on Scooter Libby:

A lot has been written about how the Libby commutation undermines the rule of law, which Republicans are supposed to care about. The White House ducks this criticism. That’s bad enough, but to be expected. What’s deeply galling is simultaneously trying to portray

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Ana: You missed one additional reason that older people have Facebook pages. Some of us–I’ll cop to it–are there trying to find out what’s on our kids’ pages. At least, that was my initial reason. But then I found out that I would have to actually impersonate a high schooler to infilitrate his group, and–well, that was just too …

Dogs Against Romney, via Andy via Professor B.

The AP dug into the relationship between Fred (for some reason now called “Fred!” by the wingnutsphere) and Nixon (or, as I like to call him, N!x@n).

Nixon was disappointed with the selection of Thompson, whom he called “dumb as hell.” The president did not think Thompson was skilled enough to interrogate unfriendly witnesses and would

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A light post to get us started this morning: Over the weekend, I taped a short, light segment about Facebook with Howie Kurtz and Jeff Jarvis for “Reliable Sources.” Kurtz had written a piece about Facebook and, as inevitably happens when an MSMer writes about what the kids are up to, the topic burgeoned from a topic to, well, a thing. …

The Los Angeles Times’ Michael Finnegan reports this on the paper’s website:

Former Tennessee Sen. Fred D. Thompson, who is campaigning for president as a “pro-life” Republican, accepted a lobbying assignment from a family-planning group to persuade the first Bush White House to ease a controversial abortion restriction, according to a

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My fiendish plan worked! Justin has stepped in to explain a bit about the Dems and trade policy:

In general, I don’t think the Dem candidates are really all that anti-trade. I certainly haven’t heard them talk about rolling back existing trade agreements or picking Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown as a running mate (although I’ll admit, I

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