Democrats trying to figure out Iraq funding legislation they can get Bush to sign are working on a bill without timelines and without much of the unrelated domestic spending that fattened up previous versions. But they may attach a minimum wage hike to the bill. Will anti-war members bolt? Should they?
I never liked the idea of buying …
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Juan Cole plays his usual valuable role in sifting through the news from hell. Despite his disclaimers–and he’s entirely correct to disclaim–I found his speculation about some sort of political shakeup imminent in Baghdad to be interesting:
So of the central club, al-Hakim is now absent [taking lung cancer treatment in Iran]. And,
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On a blogger conference call just now, McCain fired the first shot in what is sure to be a series of ongoing frontal assaults on Mitt Romney. According to someone on the call, in response to a question about Romney’s immigration position, McCain said he’d “wait a couple of weeks and see if the winds change and Mitt comes back around” to …
We’re all in New York, meeting with our colleagues to determine the very future of the Republic. Feel free to leave suggestions here for how you’d like to see the 2008 campaign covered — either by us or by the media in general or by yourselves.
Keep it relatively clean, if you can. Easier to forward to the boss that way.
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Most horse race polls are useless this early in a presidential campaign. National polls are totally useless–a reflection, mostly, of name recognition. Local polls are interesting or not, depending on the state. Iowa and New Hampshire polls are more interesting than others, since those presidential politics is a major industry in those …
John Edwards hits New Hampshire like a snowstorm, covering the state from Keene to Claremont to Lebanon.
Hillary Rodham Clinton Meets announces a “major policy initiative” at North Beach Elementary School in Miami Beach, Fla.
John McCain gives a policy speech to the Oklahoma State Legislature.
Michelle Obama does a coffee talk at …
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Just watched the debate on Meet the Press. I thought Dodd won, mostly because Gingrich lost–which was surprising becausee Newt has a quick mouth and is usually pretty good at these things. In this case, however, Gingrich was enslaved by history–constantly making false comparisons to World War II (Guadalcanal was tough!) and the …
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Deborah Howell of the Washington Post. I agree with this.
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…if we could do something like this?.
I know Kouchner and he is just first-rate. But the striking thing about this is what is says about Sarkozy, who is willing to appoint someone to his inner circle who disagrees with him and is willing to say so. Listen to Kouchner about his agreements and disagreements with the new boss:
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Okay, I’m now totally into the immigration meltdown mania, especially since — in addition to amnesty burgers — the immigration foes are also offering a dead rat with a string to swing it on:
Here’s the rub as to why people are so angry. The critical Border Security provisions that must be enacted before we jump ahead to the
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To be honest, I haven’t been paying full attention to the immigration bill debate, but if all of the rhetoric is like this, I’m gonna start reading up:
It was true in 1986. It’s as true as ever in 2007. Wimpy will get his amnesty burgers and the Beltway fools who keep deluding themselves about the false promise of immigration
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John Moe weighs in on the Rs here.
Why wasn’t this posted earlier? BECAUSE OF TEH BIAS, of course!
