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PALIN RESIGNATION SPLITS GOPSkeptics say Friday's events diminished and perhaps demolished Palin's 2012 presidential hopes....Date: 03 Jul 2009 23:11:02 ESTREMAINDERS: NOT SUCH A SLOW NEWS DAYRemainders: Not such a slow news day...Date: 03 Jul 2009 19:11:46 ESTPALIN PLANS TO STAY VISIBLEShe will give serious consideration to running for president in 2012, but has made no decision, friends tell POLITICO....Date: 03 Jul 2009 18:40:48 ESTQUITTERQuitter?...Date: 03 Jul 2009 16:50:54 ESTPALIN'S PRESS RELEASETransfer of power....Date: 03 Jul 2009 16:50:40 ESTPALIN DIDN'T TELL BEGICH DURING MEETINGShe didn't tell Begich....Date: 03 Jul 2009 16:21:02 ESTPALIN ANNOUNCES RESIGNATIONMove frees her to pursue presidency but also raises questions about her political standing at home....Date: 03 Jul 2009 16:02:00 ESTPALIN TO RESIGNPalin to resign...Date: 03 Jul 2009 15:50:41 ESTGOP SOURCES: PALIN WON'T RUN FOR RE-ELECTIONGOP sources: Palin won't run for re-election...Date: 03 Jul 2009 15:21:44 ESTPALIN WILL NOT SEEK RE-ELECTIONThe move frees her up to pursue a White House bid in 2012....Date: 03 Jul 2009 15:11:18 ESTTHE WORLD AWAITS (AND SPECULATES ABOUT) PALIN ANNOUNCEMENTThe world awaits (and speculates about) Palin announcement...Date: 03 Jul 2009 14:51:07 ESTACCESS SCANDAL ECHOES BEYOND POSTThe Post's flier fumble is similar to other money-making efforts by the WSJ and the Economist....Date: 03 Jul 2009 14:50:51 ESTDID THE WASHINGTON POST CROSS THE LINE?The Post's flier fumble is similar to other money-making efforts by the WSJ and the Economist....Date: 03 Jul 2009 14:40:45 ESTPALIN TO MAKE ANNOUNCEMENT FROM WASILLA AT 3Palin to make announcement from Wasilla at 3...Date: 03 Jul 2009 14:10:42 ESTLIGHT POSTING IN THESE PARTSLight posting in these parts...Date: 03 Jul 2009 12:31:32 ESTSECOND S.C. CONGRESSMAN CALLS ON SANFORD TO STEP DOWNSecond S.C. congressman calls on Sanford to step down...Date: 03 Jul 2009 12:21:10 ESTPOWELL AS CW MONITORPowell as CW monitor...Date: 03 Jul 2009 12:20:52 ESTSECOND SC CONGRESSMAN CALLS ON SANFORD TO STEP DOWNSecond SC congressman calls on Sanford to step down...Date: 03 Jul 2009 11:52:22 ESTWHAT DOES CHARLIE RANGEL DO JULY 4TH WEEKEND?Charlie Rangel working on the fourth....Date: 03 Jul 2009 10:31:43 ESTDEMS TARGET MCCONNELL, WANT TO SEND A MESSAGEDems target McConnell, want to send a message...Date: 03 Jul 2009 10:31:27 EST
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PAUL BEGALA: SARAH PALIN TURNS PROI wish Hunter S. Thompson had lived to see this. As Hunter said, "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." Sarah Palin makes Mark Foley, the congressman who sent filthy emails to pages look almost normal. She makes David Vitter, the senator who was hanging out with hookers, look a...Date: 03 Jul 2009 23:10:45 ESTROB RICHIE: SARAH PALIN'S RESIGNATION TO REDUCE WOMEN GOVERNORS TO SIXSarah Palin's surprise announcement today that she will step down this month as Alaska's governor has stirred a firestorm of conjecture about her motives and political prospects. There is one particularly concrete consequence, however: she will be the third woman governor to leave office s...Date: 03 Jul 2009 23:10:31 ESTPAUL RIECKHOFF: COMING HOME FROM WAR IS NO 4TH OF JULY PICNICI'll never forget my Independence Day at war. On July 4, 2003, I was in Baghdad, preparing to return home with my infantry platoon after six months fighting Saddam's Army and an insurgency that was just beginning to exact its toll on coalition forces. On that day, however, my expectations w...Date: 03 Jul 2009 22:41:05 ESTEVAN HANDLER: PALIN RESIGNS TO ACCEPT POST AS LUNATIC LAUREATEI'll try to be brief. People should do whatever they choose. Get married, get divorced. Run for office, resign from office. Volunteer to clean up a highway, run screaming naked down the street. Have your fun, baby, and don't let no one keep you from it. What people should not do is have th...Date: 03 Jul 2009 21:50:33 ESTSARAH PALIN "OUT OF POLITICS, PERIOD" (VIDEO)Reporters are beginning to piece together an explanation for Sarah Palin's abrupt resignation announcement that stands in stark contrast to the reasoning Palin offered in her speech. Speaking on MSNBC, Andrea Mitchell reported that, according to "people very close to Sarah Palin," she has...Date: 03 Jul 2009 21:30:41 ESTCHRIS WEIGANT: FRIDAY TALKING POINTS [84] -- THE ROCKETS' RED GLARE, THE BOMBS BURSTING IN AIRWhat separates humans from animals can be summed up as one simple thing -- the mastery of fire. Even "using tools" doesn't cut it anymore, as apes have been shown to use their own tools to achieve their own modest goals. When you get right down to it, the sole dividing line between us and...Date: 03 Jul 2009 20:30:36 ESTPALIN RESIGNING COULD BE 'SHREWD GAMBLE': BILL KRISTOLThe shocking news that Alaska Governor Sarah Palin will resign the governorship on July 26th has fueled speculation that she is preparing to run for president in 2012. Conventional wisdom has it that abandoning your state before your first (and only) term is up would not be the smartest st...Date: 03 Jul 2009 19:40:56 ESTGOP OFFICIAL WHO EMAILED WITH PALIN MOMENTS BEFORE DECISION, EXPLAINS HER MOVEThe head of the Republican Governor's Association said on Friday that in emails sent to him moments before she announced her resignation as governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin discussed expanding the role she played in the Republican Party. "Part of her decision is she wants to spend more tim...Date: 03 Jul 2009 19:40:38 ESTGOP OFFICIAL WHO TALKED WITH PALIN MOMENTS BEFORE DECISION, EXPLAINS HER MOVEThe head of the Republican Governor's Association said on Friday that in emails sent to him moments before she announced her resignation as governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin discussed expanding the role she played in the Republican Party. "Part of her decision is she wants to spend more tim...Date: 03 Jul 2009 19:31:13 ESTDAVID WALLECHINSKY: SARAH PALIN: NEXT STOP FOX?Speculation about the reason behind Sarah Palin's surprise resignation as governor of Alaska has centered on her national political ambitions, possible unrevealed legal problems and maybe yet another pregnancy. More likely, Fox News or another TV network has made her an offer she can't refu...Date: 03 Jul 2009 19:30:38 ESTSARAH PALIN RESIGNATION SPEECH: FULL VIDEO, TEXTAlaska Governor Sarah Palin stunned the political world today with her announcement that she will resign as governor on July 26th. In a speech held at her home in Wasilla, Alaska -- described by CBS News as "rambling and sometimes confusing" -- she offered some details about her decision....Date: 03 Jul 2009 19:11:29 ESTPALIN'S BROTHER: SARAH FED UP WITH "NON-STOP NEGATIVE MEDIA BLITZ" (VIDEO)Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's brother called into Fox News and said he was surprised by her shocking announcement that she will resign the governorship, and he believes that at least part of her decision stems from a "non-stop negative media blitz" that was consuming her and her staff's tim...Date: 03 Jul 2009 19:11:20 ESTPALIN RESIGNS: MEGHAN STAPLETON, PALIN SPOKESWOMAN, INSISTS PALIN'S NOT BUCKLING UNDER THE PRESSURE (VIDEO)Meghan Stapleton, Governor Sarah Palin's spokeswoman, called into Fox News to defend her stunning decision to resign the Alaska governorship on July 26th. Stapleton insisted that Palin felt she could do more for the country by stepping down and strongly denied any claims that she's 'buckli...Date: 03 Jul 2009 19:11:11 ESTPALIN RESIGNS: STEPPING DOWN AS GOVERNOR, MOVE SHOCKS POLITICAL ANALYSTSWASILLA, Alaska — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin surprised supporters Friday and announced she is resigning from office at the end of the month without explaining why she plans to step down _ throwing into question whether she would seek a run for the White House in 2012. The news rattles a...Date: 03 Jul 2009 19:10:59 ESTJOHN R. BOHRER: PALIN'S LAMEST EXCUSEAfter getting over the initial shock of hearing that Sarah Palin is going to resign, it kind of makes sense when you stop to think about it. Running for reelection in 2010 would mean having to spend a lot more time (and contributor's money) in Alaska, and then being a lame duck would bring...Date: 03 Jul 2009 19:10:43 ESTFRANCESCA BILLER-SAFRAN: FIREWORKS BRIGHTER FOR BLACKS THIS FOURTH OF JULYAs a person of mixed race, I have had many blacks since Obama's election confide in me with comments along these lines, "We finally have a brother in the White House, and that's more than I ever thought would happen." An African-American friend who manages a local grocery store still has a...Date: 03 Jul 2009 18:50:45 ESTJOHN RIDLEY: THIS FOURTH: FREEDOM, CRISPUS AND GAY LINGUISTS (REMIXED)The following was originally posted on Huffington Post for the 4th of July in 2007. With the recent discharge of West Point graduate and Arabic linguist First Lt. Dan Choi from the New York National Guard for the high crime of wanting to serve his country openly, the piece seemed due for a...Date: 03 Jul 2009 18:50:31 ESTRACHEL SKLAR: SARAH PALIN, YOU OWE THE MEDIA AN APOLOGY"I told you so" moments are pretty sweet — and thanks to Sarah Palin, now I've got one. Ten months to the day after her speech at the Republican National Convention, I would like for this woman to eat her words: I'm not a member of the permanent political establishment. And I've learn...Date: 03 Jul 2009 18:30:42 ESTADELE STAN: SARAH PALIN WILL BE BACKThere's nothing surprising in Sarah Palin's decision not to run for re-election as governor of Alaska. After all, if you've got a shot to become leader of the free world, it helps to have nothing but time to give the people of Iowa and New Hampshire in the year leading up to their caucus a...Date: 03 Jul 2009 18:00:38 ESTSARAH PALIN RESIGNATION SPEECH: FULL VIDEOAlaska Governor Sarah Palin stunned the political world today with her shocking announcement that she will resign as governor on July 26th. She gave a speech in Wasilla, Alaska earlier detailing her decision. Watch it below. function onAd() { return '';...Date: 03 Jul 2009 17:50:52 EST -
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ALTER: RESIGNATION IS PALIN'S OPENING FOR 2012NewsweekSarah Palin's resignation speech sounds the the first shot of her presidential bid...Date: 03 Jul 2009 22:50:48 ESTMICHELLE OBAMA REACHES OUT TO DC'S POORNewsweekAway from the cameras, the Michelle Obama is reaching out to DC's poor and neglected...Date: 03 Jul 2009 14:51:24 ESTDOCUMENTS REVEAL CHAOS OF GITMO’S EARLY DAYSNewly released documents and memos about the first years of operation of the jail at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, portray a chaotic operation that its own commanders described as dysfunctional....Date: 03 Jul 2009 03:20:52 ESTLITTLE U.S. LEVERAGE IN HONDURAN COUPThe coup that deposed the president of Honduras exposed the small leverage that even millions of dollars in aid and longtime military cooperation will buy....Date: 02 Jul 2009 20:40:48 ESTOBAMA DELAYS RELEASE OF CIA REPORTThe Obama administration said Thursday that it needs two more months to review an internal CIA report on the agency's secret detention and interrogation program before making it public....Date: 02 Jul 2009 19:10:55 ESTSEN.: SOTOMAYOR ADVISED 'EXTREME' GROUPA top Republican senator said a Puerto Rican legal advocacy group advised by Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor took extreme positions on capital punishment, abortion and racial quotas....Date: 02 Jul 2009 18:32:24 ESTOBAMA TALKS RUSSIA, SOTOMAYOR, JOBS, JACKSONBefore departing for the holiday weekend, President Barack Obama sat down with The Associated Press, talking Russia (Putin "still has a lot of sway"), joblessness (he's "deeply concerned"), and Michael Jackson (he's got the late singer's songs on his iPod)....Date: 02 Jul 2009 15:03:41 ESTBIDEN TO MEET WITH IRAQ LEADERSVice President Joe Biden arrives in Iraq to visit U.S. troops and meet with Iraqi leaders, including President Jalal Talabani and Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki....Date: 02 Jul 2009 14:11:22 ESTOBAMA TALKS JOBS, JACKSON, AND RUSSIAWith joblessness rising, President Barack Obama said Thursday he was "deeply concerned" about unemployment and conceded that too many families are worried about "whether they will be next" to suffer economically....Date: 02 Jul 2009 13:22:19 ESTOBAMA HEALTH CZAR LED COMPANIES IN TROUBLENancy-Ann DeParle, President Barack Obama’s health policy czar, served as a director of corporations that faced scores of federal investigations, whistleblower lawsuits and other regulatory actions, according to government records reviewed by the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American Universi...Date: 02 Jul 2009 10:52:04 ESTGROUP'S RECORDS TELL LITTLE ABOUT SOTOMAYORDocuments released by a Puerto Rican civil rights organization offer little evidence about Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's role in the cases and causes the organization took up....Date: 01 Jul 2009 18:11:23 ESTWHICH AL FRANKEN WILL SHOW UP IN WASHINGTON?Al Franken arrives in Washington next week to claim a seat that stood vacant for half a year — but will he be the passionate, sometimes angry liberal or the cautious, serious politico?...Date: 01 Jul 2009 17:03:36 ESTFINEMAN: WHAT TO EXPECT FROM AL FRANKENNewsweekMinnesota's new senator is no clown....Date: 01 Jul 2009 16:51:25 ESTOBAMA PITCHES HEALTH PLAN, HUGS CANCER PATIENTAt an emotional forum in Virginia, President Barack Obama hugged a cancer patient Wednesday and vowed to bring greater efficiency and accessibility to the nation's health care system....Date: 01 Jul 2009 15:21:38 ESTOBAMA HUGS CANCER PATIENT, PITCHES OVERHAULAt an emotional forum in Virginia, President Barack Obama hugged a cancer patient Wednesday and vowed to bring greater efficiency and accessibility to the nation's health care system....Date: 01 Jul 2009 15:02:40 ESTOBAMA PITCHES HEALTH CARE PLANS IN VIRGINIAPresident Barack Obama says he recognizes the heavy price tag of revamping the health care system but that it would be much more costly to do nothing....Date: 01 Jul 2009 14:01:12 ESTWHITE HOUSE NOT APPEALING TRANSGENDER RULINGThe Obama administration is not fighting a nearly $500,000 judgment for a Library of Congress hiree who lost the job while undergoing a gender change from a man to a woman....Date: 01 Jul 2009 13:51:39 ESTOBAMA TAKES HEALTH CARE PITCH TO VIRGINIAPresident Barack Obama is taking his pitch for health care revisions to Virginia, holding a town hall forum and fielding questions via the Internet....Date: 01 Jul 2009 11:52:51 ESTFRANKEN WINS PROTRACTED MINN. SENATE RACEAl Franken refused his rival's calls for an election night concession last November, choosing instead to begin vote counting and courtroom haggling that stretched almost eight months and ultimately landed him a seat in the U.S. Senate....Date: 01 Jul 2009 09:32:23 ESTHEALTH OVERHAUL MEANS BIG MEDICARE CHANGESIf you're not a Medicare recipient, your parents probably are, or soon will be. And you yourself will be on Medicare eventually. That’s a reason to pay attention as Congress debates an overhaul of health insurance....Date: 01 Jul 2009 09:21:01 EST
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UPDATE: PALIN TO RESIGN AS ALASKA GOVERNORUPDATED POST: KTUU-TV in Anchorage now reports that Palin not only won't seek re-election, but will resign later this month. Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell (R) will replace her at the governor's picnic; he won't run for a full term in 2010. ORIGINAL POST: Gov. Sarah Palin (R) has announced she will not run f...Date: 03 Jul 2009 15:41:53 ESTPALIN WON'T SEEK RE-ELECTION IN 2010Gov. Sarah Palin (R) has announced she will not run for re-election in 2010, CNN reports. She's scheduled to make an announcement shortly. The decision frees Palin to travel in the Lower 48 as she considers a potential run for president in 2012. A re-election campaign could also have been tough on t...Date: 03 Jul 2009 15:30:52 ESTMR. OBAMA GOES TO MOSCOWIn the next few days, I plan to be blogging regularly, here and at The Y-Files, on Barack Obama's trip to Moscow and especially the Russian coverage of his visit. I didn't really expect much from the trip, but so far, it is shaping up to be quite fascinating. Evidently, Obama is spending a lot of [...Date: 03 Jul 2009 01:31:48 ESTTHE USS SANFORD TAKES ON MORE WATERIn addition to the pressure Governor Mark Sanford is getting from the growing list of Republicans (and Democrats) in the Palmetto State now calling for his regisnation, a new poll Sanford is losing the battle of public opinion as well. A day after last week's press conference in which Sanford first...Date: 02 Jul 2009 18:11:50 ESTNH SEN POLL: AG AYOTTE (R) LEADS HODESA UNH/Granite State Poll released today finds that former senator John Sununu (R) would fare well against Rep. Paul Hodes (D) in a race for Senate in New Hampshire (June 24-July 1, 505 LV, MoE +/- 4.4%). Unfortunately for Republicans, Sununu -- who was bounced out of office last November -- announce...Date: 02 Jul 2009 15:03:57 ESTNOT LIKE USThe lastest from the Global War on Terror Overseas Contingency Operation: Pakistan's top Taliban leader, Baitullah Mehsud, is buying children as young as 7 to serve as suicide bombers in the growing spate of attacks against Pakistani, Afghan and U.S. targets, U.S. Defense Department and Pakistani o...Date: 02 Jul 2009 10:52:41 ESTHUMAN RIGHTS AND KHODORKOVSKYA group of American pundits which includes people as different as William Kristol and Leon Wieseltier is appealing to Barack Obama to make democracy and human rights a priority on his Moscow visit. Grani.ru reports (in Russian) that, according to Obama's top Russia advisor, Michael McFaul, about ha...Date: 02 Jul 2009 10:52:27 ESTSANFORD & DONEI don't know what possessed Governor Mark Sanford to spend four hours sitting on the couch unburdening himself to the Associated Press as if their reporters were therapists, but it seems that decision pretty much sealed his fate. After all, when people start referring to you as the "blubbering love...Date: 02 Jul 2009 09:34:47 ESTQUINNIPIAC: OBAMA JOB APPROVAL AT 57%New Quinnipiac University poll (June 23-29, 3,063 RV, MoE +/- 1.8%) shows President Obama's job approval rating at 57% (down two points from June) and his disapproval rating at 33% (up two points from June). While these numbers remain healthy, Assistant poll director Peter Brown says they also conta...Date: 02 Jul 2009 09:01:05 ESTRICCI AND THE NEW YORK TIMESYesterday's New York Times editorializes on the Ricci v. DeStefano decision. They point out, correctly, that the 5-4 ruling in favor of the plaintiffs is hardly a stinging rebuke to Supreme Court nominee Sonya Sotomayor, who ruled against them earlier as a federal circuit court judge. The dissenti...Date: 02 Jul 2009 01:31:36 ESTSC DEMS CALL FOR SANFORD RESIGNATIONWith more details about South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford (R) leaking out every day, the state Democratic Party is now calling for his resignation. "Every day that members of the General Assembly spend talking about Sanford's state-funded romance is another day these Republican leaders aren't tacklin...Date: 01 Jul 2009 13:21:43 ESTST. PETE TIMES: CRIST SOLD OUTThe St. Pete Times dropped a scathing editorial today on Florida Gov. Charlie Crist (R) for signing a bill that transfers management authority of water pumping and wetlands destruction away from the five governing boards that allowed for public comment. Here's a sample: Gov. Charlie Crist's sellout...Date: 01 Jul 2009 11:12:02 ESTPALIN, ON RACE WITH OBAMA: 'I'D WIN'Not a presidential race, but actually running. In a long interview with Runner's World, former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin said she would beat President Obama in a long distance race. "I betcha I'd have more endurance," Palin said, when asked if she could beat him. "So if [it] were a lo...Date: 01 Jul 2009 10:51:24 ESTNJ GOV POLL: CHRISTIE +6A new FDU/PublicMind poll shows former U.S. Attorney Chris Christie (R) with a narrower edge over Gov. Jon Corzine (D) in this year's gubernatorial race than other polls. But the governor still has ground to make -- up even among Democrats -- if he hopes to be re-elected, as a strong majority say th...Date: 01 Jul 2009 07:40:52 ESTFRANKEN 'EXCITED' TO GET TO WASHINGTONSenator-elect Al Franken said today that he is "excited" to finally get to Washington to serve the people of Minnesota as their newest senator. "Let me say thank you to the people of Minnesota for your patience, for your thoughts and prayers, and for giving me the opportunity to work for you in Was...Date: 30 Jun 2009 17:51:45 ESTCOLEMAN CONCEDES MINNESOTA SENATE RACENorm Coleman has conceded the Minnesota Senate race to Democratic challenger Al Franken, following the state Supreme Court's 5-0 ruling today that Franken won the race. "The state Supreme Court has spoken," Coleman said at an afternoon press conference. "I respect its decision and I will abide by it...Date: 30 Jun 2009 16:51:10 ESTHODES LEADS SUNUNU(?)New Hampshire-based pollster ARG finds that Representative Paul Hodes leads former Senator John Sununu by a 40%-34% margin in a potential 2010 matchup. This is in contrast to the May UNH poll that had Sununu leading Hodes 46%-41%. Of course, a poll that was not in contrast to the reality of the...Date: 30 Jun 2009 16:11:29 ESTMN SUPREME COURT RULES 5-0 FOR FRANKENAlmost eight months since the November election, the Minnesota State Supreme Court ruled 5-0 in favor of Democrat Al Franken, who won the official recount by 312 votes. From the St. Paul Pioneer-Press: It is U.S. Sen. Al Franken. The Minnesota Supreme Court today decided that Franken, a Democrat,...Date: 30 Jun 2009 14:41:47 ESTFL GOV POLL: MCCOLLUM +6If the election for governor of Florida were today, Attorney General Bill McCollum (R) would defeat Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink (D) by 6 points, according to a new Mason-Dixon poll (June 24-26, 625 RV, +/- 4%). Almost four in 10 respondents didn't recognize Sink's name, while McCollum -- who l...Date: 30 Jun 2009 13:21:54 ESTSANFORD'S ROLLING DISCLOSURETurns out Mark Sanford's declaration that his affair with Maria Belen Chapur was a innocent friendship for seven or so years before blossoming into a romantic relationship wasn't entirely accurate. Sanford now tells the AP his first romantic encounter with Chapur came in 2001, and that there have be...Date: 30 Jun 2009 12:51:21 EST -
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SO WHY DID THIS CRAZY PALIN LADY QUIT THE ALASKA GOVERNOR JOB SHE JUST STARTED TWO YEARS AGO?First of all, Sarah Palin, go to HELL for ruining your editor’s day of patriotic rest and BBQ. Second, why did you really quit, crazy lady? We admit to “jumping to conclusions” (trying to hurry up and get back outside to our cocktails and friends), but the story may be more complic...Date: 03 Jul 2009 19:21:02 ESTSARAH PALIN ‘NOT TAKING THE QUITTER’S WAY OUT’Some of us have been on vacation since Wednesday, at the delightful Beach, but how could we miss Sarah Palin’s latest cosmic sack o’ lies and demons and terror? Watch her “I’m going to resign because governing a state is hard when you have absolutely no interest in governing...Date: 03 Jul 2009 16:51:15 ESTSARAH PALIN RESIGNSCome on, we are supposed to be celebrating AMERICA this July 4th Weekend, but of course with Sarah Palin, it’s all about Sarah Palin. So she has RUINED our Independence Day by announcing that she’s quitting the governor’s job (boring!) and handing over power to the lieutenant gove...Date: 03 Jul 2009 16:11:43 ESTIS OUR PRESIDENT TOO DIPLOMATIC?: A POLITICO EXPOSECryptofascist warblog The Politico has won the long weekend (and, by retroactive default, the Revolutionary War) with their crucial SCOOP on Obama’s weird obsession with pronouncing proper nouns—names of places he’s visiting, names of people he’s speaking to, that sort of thing—in...Date: 03 Jul 2009 14:21:47 ESTAMERICA’S CAR WIZARD DRIVES A JAPANESE CAROH SCANDAL this youngling Brian Deese, a 14-year-old hired by the president to reform the auto industry — the American auto industry, that is — does not even drive an American car. Instead he drives a two-door Honda Civic hatchback with a shitty paint job, referred to informally as the &...Date: 03 Jul 2009 11:21:23 ESTCOW PORN JUDGE OFFICIALLY ADMONISHEDHa ha ha we randomly clicked on this LA Times headline thinking, “Alex Kozinski, isn’t she that rich NYT gal with the plastic surgery and the surrogates?” But no, duh, the name should ring a bell because Alex Kozinski is the infamous cow porn judge who shocked America last June wit...Date: 03 Jul 2009 10:01:27 ESTHAPPY PRE-INDEPENDENCE DAY!Profound economy-related insight: continued widespread unemployment is bad because “people without jobs tend not to spend much money.” [Washington Post] Iran plans to try some local British embassy staff for fomenting unrest. Thank goodness the US doesn’t have any embassies in Ira...Date: 03 Jul 2009 09:01:05 ESTA CHILDREN’S TREASURY OF PATRIOTIC JULY 4 VIDEOSSam the American Eagle was, of course, both the first blogger and the first warblogger, a creature so deeply patriotic that he figured out how to make his youtubes only appear on the American Wide Web. Yes, it’s almost the three-day Holiday Weekend, so let’s enjoy some cheap video clips...Date: 02 Jul 2009 17:41:42 ESTMARK SANFORD’S LOVE NOVEL KILLED BY MEAN OLD CONSERVATIVE PUBLISHERSOnce upon a time, this nobody governor in, uhh, one of the southern states, but not a famous one like Florida, got a book deal. He was supposed to write about how to be conservative or something, A Southern Gentleman’s Guide To Being Conservative, but then this nobody governor turned into Mark...Date: 02 Jul 2009 16:51:13 EST‘WOOP-WOOP! THAT’S THE SOUND OF DA AYATOLLAH!’If you thought Marion Barry could dance, think again! Because Al Sharpton is nimble as a ballerina. [Michelle Malkin] With all its student loans and Mongolian hordes of credit card debt, California is having a hard time paying the bills! But that hasn’t stopped the California State Legisla...Date: 02 Jul 2009 15:41:02 ESTHERE’S ANN COULTER SAYING ‘SENATOR NORM COLEMAN’ AGAIN AND AGAIN, FOR NO REASONWatching this weirdly edited video clip makes us feel like we just downed a coffee mug full of Liquid Vicodin, but perhaps you people will get something deeper, or maybe your heads will explode, just like poor Al Franken’s … or, Senator Al Franken’s head, right? [The Connecticut F...Date: 02 Jul 2009 14:02:32 ESTCAN BLACK FEMALE REPORTERS DELIVER THE HARD-HITTING EAST WING REPORTAGE AMERICANS CRAVE?Throughout the history of American journalism, reporters have upheld one vital standard: asking the tough questions and holding to account the most powerful person in the nation, which is to say, the First Lady. But is our national legacy of unbiased investigative East Wing reporting suddenly in per...Date: 02 Jul 2009 13:52:22 ESTSLEAZY WASHINGTON POST SELLING ‘ACCESS’ TO CEOS, FOR $25,000America’s neo-con pamphlet the Washington Post can be found festering in certain driveways from Reston to Chevy Chase, but sometimes that’s not good enough for the powerful CEO or lobbyist who wants to, say, beat the shit out of Richard Cohen in person. This is why Post publisher Kathari...Date: 02 Jul 2009 13:22:41 ESTINDEPENDENCE DAY, WONKABOUT STYLEThis Independence Day is going to be amazing because our savior, Barack Obama, is in the White House, and therefore America is once again a country worth celebrating! Follow our Do’s and Don’ts to make this July 4th the most enjoyable than any since 1776. DO: Check out an outdoor pool...Date: 02 Jul 2009 12:50:56 EST‘I WILL REFRAIN FROM YOUR DEGRADING VIEWS IN THE FUTURE’Somehow it seems unlikely that this dude, who vows not to read Wonkette ever again, has read much of it in the past. Subject: Disgraceful From: Jerry to tips Your recent article on Official Romney Portrait Unveiled is disgraceful. I will refrain from your degrading views in the future. It’s p...Date: 02 Jul 2009 12:23:05 ESTOBAMA HAS A LAUGH WITH AVIATRIXESYesterday while the rest of you were out shopping for booze or maybe just emptying out the still in anticipation of today’s 12th annual National Unemployment Day, President Obama was hard at work hanging out with a bunch of pilots — some pretty awesome lady pilots from World War II, and...Date: 02 Jul 2009 11:11:35 ESTUNEMPLOYMENT RATE STILL THRIVING!In these difficult times, when it seems everything is declining — corporate profits, individual incomes, assorted varieties and levels of a thing we used to call “hope” — one thing grows ever larger and more robust: our unemployment rate. Let’s hear it for the magical n...Date: 02 Jul 2009 10:23:03 ESTCAT FINALLY GETS MARK SANFORD’S TONGUENow that we don’t have to worry about Iraq anymore, we can start worrying about Afghanistan instead, where a “major operation” was just launched. [CNN] Soon California won’t be able to pay its bills and it will start issuing IOUs scratched out on bits of scrap paper as ̶...Date: 02 Jul 2009 09:35:15 ESTFOX NEWS WILL DESTROY AMERICA (WITH BIN LADEN’S NUKES?) TO SAVE ITWell, this is sort of what we all imagined, in our darkest & drunkest moments. Here’s a Fox News show features a weird jabbering middle-aged baby with hair plugs on the left side of the screen and some guy who claims to be a Bush Administration anti-Bin Laden official on the right, and,...Date: 02 Jul 2009 02:11:43 ESTSARAH PALIN SHOULD JUST MAKE EXERCISE DVDSOh, there is more to the Runner’s World interview with Sarah Palin than a simple Q&A about the regrets of falling down on the jogging trail and the Secret Service keeping her vile secret. There’s a whole photo spread, with seven online pictures of Sarah lookin’ all perky and a...Date: 01 Jul 2009 18:30:55 EST
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SARAH PALIN RESIGNS AS ALASKA GOVERNOR, CITING PROBES AND FAMILY NEEDSSarah Palin, the Republican Alaska governor who captivated the nation with a combative brand of folksy politics, announced her resignation yesterday in characteristic fashion: She stood on her back lawn in Wasilla, speaking into a single microphone, surrounded by friends and neighbors in baseball.....Date: 03 Jul 2009 22:40:22 ESTANALYSIS: ONCE AGAIN, THE ENIGMA THAT IS SARAH PALIN PLAYS IT BY HER RULESSarah Palin demonstrated once again yesterday that she is one of America's most unconventional politicians, following an unpredictable path to an uncertain future....Date: 03 Jul 2009 22:40:00 ESTADVOCACY GROUPS SHOULD HALT ATTACKS ON MODERATE DEMOCRATS, OBAMA SAYSPresident Obama, strategizing yesterday with congressional leaders about health-care reform, complained that liberal advocacy groups ought to drop their attacks on Democratic lawmakers and devote their energy to promoting passage of comprehensive legislation....Date: 03 Jul 2009 20:20:17 ESTREPUBLICAN COMEBACK TERRITORY IN CALIFORNIAGeorge F. WillSANTA MONICA, Calif. -- California's campaigns introduce candidates not only to the state's voters but also to its immensity. In Bakersfield, Meg Whitman, 52, the former CEO of eBay who is campaigning for the 2010 Republican gubernatorial nomination, learned about carrots....Date: 03 Jul 2009 20:00:13 ESTPALIN TO RESIGN AS ALASKA GOVERNOR BY END OF MONTHAlaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) announced this afternoon she will resign from office by the end of the month and return to private life, a stunning decision by last year's Republican vice presidential candidate to leave office before the end of her first term....Date: 03 Jul 2009 19:00:57 ESTANALYSIS: PALIN PLAYS BY HER OWN RULES, AGAINSarah Palin demonstrated once again today that she is one of America's most unconventional politicians following an unpredictable path to an uncertain future....Date: 03 Jul 2009 19:00:04 ESTPALIN TO RESIGN, FOCUS ON PRESIDENTIAL RUNAlaska Gov. Sarah Palin is looking to build a national political operation in advance of 2012. (AP Photo/Chris Miller, File) Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will resign her office later this month, according to several sources familiar with her decision, freeing her to build a national political team and tr...Date: 03 Jul 2009 16:10:24 ESTPALIN WILL NOT RUN FOR REELECTION IN 2010Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will not seek a second term in 2010, according to sources familiar with the governor's thinking, freeing her to build a national political team and travel the country in support of an expected 2012 presidential bid. Palin's decision comes amid polling that showed her losing a...Date: 03 Jul 2009 16:00:24 ESTTHE CASE AGAINST RICHARD NIXONEarlier this week we made the case for Richard Nixon's inclusion in the Fix Political Hall of Fame. Today we make the opposite argument. Any conversation about Nixon and his legacy begins and ends -- necessarily -- with Watergate. The break-ins at the Democratic National Committee headquarters, whic...Date: 03 Jul 2009 14:20:29 ESTKRISTOL VS SCHMIDT, ROUND 2The war of words between conservative columnist Bill Kristol and Steve Schmidt, former campaign manager for John McCain's 2008 presidential bid, has ensnared another senior adviser, Mark Salter, who has come to Schmidt's defense after a recent appearance by Kristol on "Fox & Friends". During that ap...Date: 03 Jul 2009 11:50:21 ESTPRESIDENT OBAMA DELIVERS REMARKS ABOUT INNOVATION AND JOBSDate: 03 Jul 2009 02:20:47 ESTJUSTICE DEPT. SEEKS MORE TIME TO REVIEW REPORT ON INTERROGATIONSThe Justice Department asked a federal court yesterday for two more months to review an internal CIA report on the agency's interrogation program before releasing a new version of the document to the American Civil Liberties Union, which has sued to make it public....Date: 03 Jul 2009 02:20:32 ESTSANFORD DIDN'T IMPROPERLY USE STATE MONEY, SOUTH CAROLINA OFFICIALS SAYSouth Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford did not improperly use state money to pay for trips to New York and South America to see his Argentine mistress, state law enforcement officials concluded yesterday, as the governor reiterated that he has no plans to step down despite mounting pressure to do so....Date: 03 Jul 2009 02:20:17 ESTBOOK REVIEW: 'THE WAXMAN REPORT' BY HENRY WAXMAN"The Waxman Report" explains, at least, how Congress can work, and it is fun to read. You finish it with gratitude to the voters of Beverly Hills and nearby areas who keep returning this ornery fellow to the House to challenge entrenched special interests....Date: 03 Jul 2009 02:20:03 ESTOBAMA, PARTY TOUT LOWER FIGURE FOR HEALTH REFORMSenate Democrats and President Obama, trying to assuage fears over the cost of health reform, yesterday touted new estimates that put the price tag for one bill at $611 billion over the next decade....Date: 02 Jul 2009 22:00:22 ESTNEW WHITE HOUSE OFFICE TO REDEFINE URBAN POLICYNEW YORK -- Once upon a time, when cities were poor and suburbs were rich, "urban policy" meant programs to alleviate poverty....Date: 02 Jul 2009 21:31:17 ESTWASHINGTON POST PUBLISHER CANCELS PLANNED POLICY DINNERS AFTER OUTCRYWashington Post Publisher Katharine Weymouth yesterday canceled plans for a series of policy dinners at her home after learning that marketing fliers offered corporate underwriters access to Post journalists, Obama administration officials and members of Congress in exchange for payments as high .....Date: 02 Jul 2009 21:30:45 ESTOBAMA SUPPORTS Â?ROBUST' PROTECTION FOR CATHOLIC HEALTH-CARE WORKERSPresident Barack Obama said today that he still favors a "robust" federal policy protecting health-care workers who have moral objections to performing some procedures even though he plans to roll back a Bush administration rule that expanded such protection....Date: 02 Jul 2009 21:30:19 ESTDHS CYBERSECURITY PLAN WILL INVOLVE NSA, TELECOMSThe Obama administration will proceed with a Bush-era plan to use National Security Agency assistance in screening government computer traffic on private-sector networks, with AT&T as the likely test site, according to three current and former government officials....Date: 02 Jul 2009 21:00:56 ESTCOURT FILING SHOWS EVIDENCE CHENEY SWAYED WHITE HOUSE RESPONSE TO CIA LEAKA document filed in federal court this week by the Justice Department offers new evidence that former vice president Richard B. Cheney helped steer the Bush administration's public response to the disclosure of Valerie Plame Wilson's employment by the CIA and that he was at the center of many rel.....Date: 02 Jul 2009 21:00:24 EST -
NEW YORK TIMES
BIDEN AND IRAQ'S PRIME MINISTER DO THE PHOTO-OPThe CaucusThe meeting between Biden and Maliki produces few public statements....Date: 03 Jul 2009 17:10:37 ESTPALIN TO RESIGN AS GOVERNOR OF ALASKAThe CaucusGov. Sarah Palin of Alaska announced Thursday that she would step down by the end of the month and not seek a second term as governor, allowing her to seek the Republican nomination for president in 2012....Date: 03 Jul 2009 16:11:17 ESTDUELING ADS HIGHLIGHT THE POLITICS OF CLIMATE-CHANGE LEGISLATIONThe CaucusA coalition of left-leaning groups sponsors ads to counter Republicans' efforts to target possibly vulnerable Democrats in swing-districts who voted for the legislation in the House....Date: 03 Jul 2009 14:21:17 ESTPOWELL EXPRESSES CONCERNS OVER OBAMA'S PACKED AGENDAThe CaucusThe retired statesman indicated in a CNN interview that he has talked with Obama administration officials about taking on too many costly initiatives at once....Date: 03 Jul 2009 10:40:41 ESTEARLY WORD: A SNAFU AT THE WASHINGTON POSTThe CaucusThe nation's capital has been buzzing about a newspaper's controversial plans -- now canceled -- to request that lobbyists underwrite access to exclusive meetings with top journalists and government officials....Date: 03 Jul 2009 10:31:04 ESTEARLY WORD: A SNAFU AT THE POSTThe CaucusOfficial Washington business may be closed for the holiday weekend, but the city is still buzzing about the news that The Washington Post made, and then had to cancel, plans to charge lobbyists and trade groups as much as $250,000 off-the-record access to "those powerful few" - a group that include...Date: 03 Jul 2009 09:50:48 ESTSANDSTORMS GREET BIDEN IN BAGHDADThe CaucusThe vice president has begun an entire day of meetings with United States commanders and Iraqi officials....Date: 03 Jul 2009 09:10:36 ESTCHINESE FIREWORKS DISPLAYDavid BrooksWhen contemplating the United States and its future, it’s impossible not to think about America’s role in the world and its relationship with China....Date: 03 Jul 2009 01:31:02 ESTREPUBLICANS QUESTION SOTOMAYOR'S ROLE IN PUERTO RICAN GROUP'S LEGAL BATTLESThe CaucusWhite House and G.O.P. senators disagree over whether Sotomayor can be closely tied to controversial lawsuits pursued by a civil-rights organization....Date: 02 Jul 2009 18:31:54 ESTBILL CLINTON TO HEADLINE MALONEY FUND-RAISERThe CaucusThe former president is the featured guest at a fund-raiser long planned for Maloney, but her more recent threats to challenge Gillibrand for the Senate puts Clinton in a bit of a pickle....Date: 02 Jul 2009 18:22:15 ESTWAXMAN IS OUT OF THE HOSPITALThe CaucusCalifornia congressman, hospitalized after fainting in his office, is "in good spirits. " ....Date: 02 Jul 2009 18:11:06 ESTLEAD FOUND IN WHITE HOUSE GARDENThe CaucusThe administration insists the levels are within acceptable limits....Date: 02 Jul 2009 17:41:18 ESTBILL CLINTON STEPS INTO N.Y. SENATE FIGHTThe CaucusThe former president is the featured guest at a fund-raiser long planned for Maloney, but her more recent threats to challenge Gillibrand for the Senate puts Clinton in a bit of a pickle....Date: 02 Jul 2009 17:31:47 ESTBIDEN BEGINS HIS VISIT IN IRAQThe CaucusThe vice president has been tasked to be the top administration envoy to Iraq....Date: 02 Jul 2009 17:01:41 ESTS.C. OFFICIALS: SANFORD DIDN'T MISUSE STATE FUNDS IN LIAISON TRAVELSThe CaucusThe governor's travel and time spent with his mistress broke no laws as far as state expenses and use of state property are concerned, according to a top law enforcement official....Date: 02 Jul 2009 16:40:45 ESTWHITE HOUSE ISSUES MEMO IN WAKE OF WASHINGTON POST FLAPThe CaucusIn light of an uproar over a newspaper flier seeking lobbyists' money in exchange for attendance with administration advisers and reporters at a salon on health care, the White House has issued a new advisory for staff receiving invitations to outside events....Date: 02 Jul 2009 16:11:20 ESTOBAMA ON THE ECONOMY, AFFIRMATIVE ACTION AND MOREThe CaucusThe president sits down for an interview with the A.P., touching on many issues....Date: 02 Jul 2009 14:10:58 ESTWHITE HOUSE SALARIES LISTEDThe CaucusEarnings of the president's staff are reported to Congress....Date: 02 Jul 2009 12:00:56 ESTTHE EARLY WORD: MORE LOST JOBSThe CaucusThe unemployment rate inches upward, providing more evidence of a sustained downturn....Date: 02 Jul 2009 09:51:01 ESTTO BE OR NOT TO BE (COUNTED, THAT IS)The CaucusThree Republicans chide one of their own who has threatened to boycott the 2010 census....Date: 01 Jul 2009 19:51:03 EST -
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