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Tuesday, March 27, 2007
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Talking Points Memo: "A new poll finds that nearly six in 10 back the House Dem bill mandating withdrawal from Iraq by Fall 2008. Yet somehow, your media commentators keep reflexively recycling the bogus claim that Congressional Dems are offering voters nothing."
Harry Reid (via the New York Times): "'He can swagger all he wants,' Mr. Reid said, 'but we have 3,241 dead Americans.'"
Thanks to Political Wire for the link.
Oliver Willis: "Look, the fact that Tony Snow has cancer is really horrible for him and his family, but this morning about 53 people were blown up in Iraq. Yet, the first five questions in the White House press conference were all about Snow's cancer, the size of the cancer, whether the President would visit him, etc. The mainstream press simply because they see Tony Snow everyday abdicates their position of privilege in the White House press room and ignores the continued chaos in Iraq."
"2008 pres"
2:22:04 PM 
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The Borowitz Report: "In a bold attempt to end the controversy over the sacking of eight United States attorneys, President George W. Bush today offered the fired prosecutors what he called 'exciting new positions' in Iraq. With the President facing pressure from Congress over the firing of the attorneys and funding for the continuing war effort, Mr. Bush told reporters at the White House that sending the 'surge' of eight U.S. attorneys to Baghdad was a 'win-win' solution to both problems."
Thanks to NewMexiKen for the link.
Captain's Quarters: "Two major developments took place in the controversy over Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and the firings of eight federal prosecutors late last year. Gonzales offered his first public explanation of the apparent discrepancy between his statement on March 13th and the release of a memo on Friday, while one of his aides revealed that she would invoke her Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination if forced to testify."
"2008 pres"
2:00:11 PM
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Andrew Sullivan: "The latest head-to-head polls in the presidential race shows that Obama does better than either Clinton or Edwards against Giuliani and McCain."
pollster.com "A new Rasmussen Reports automated survey of 608 likely Republican primary voters and 757 likely Democratic primary voters nationwide (conducted 3/19 through 3/22) finds: Among Democrats, Sen. Hillary Clinton (at 37%) leads both Sen. Barack Obama (25%) and former Sen. John Edwards (17%) in a national Democratic primary; Among Republicans, former Mayor Rudy Giuliani (at 35%) leads Sen. John McCain (15%), former Speaker Newt Gingrich (11%), and former Gov. Mitt Romney (8%) in a national Republican primary."
Political Wire: "'As a senator and now as a presidential candidate,' Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) 'has cultivated relationships with generals and admirals, prepped herself on wartime needs and strategy, and traveled to Iraq and Afghanistan,' notes the New York Times. 'For Mrs. Clinton, exhibiting a command of military matters is not just about learning from her husband's experience. It could be vital to her, as a woman seeking to become a wartime commander in chief, to show the public that she is comfortable with military policy and culture -- and with the weight of responsibility that accompanies life-and-death decisions.'"
Krusty Konservativ: "The American Research Group recently conducted a presidential poll of Iowans. The poll was conducted from March 19th through March 22nd; they surveyed 600 (515 Republicans, and 85 Independents) likely Republican caucus goers living in Iowa. Here is how the presidential hopefuls placed. Republicans: Rudy Giuliani - 29%; John McCain - 29%; Fred Thompson - 12%; Mitt Romney - 10%; Newt Gingrich - 7%; Chuck Hagel - 1%; Tom Tancredo - 1%; Tommy Thompson - 1%; Brownback, Huckabee, Hunter, Paul, and Gilmore finished with less than 1%; 11% of those surveyed were undecided."
Thanks to the Caucus Cooler for the link.
Duncan Hunter (via Blogs for Bush) manages to call on Reagan's ghost in the second paragraph of his guest post, writing, "National Journal ranks me as the most conservative member of Congress running for the Presidency based on my lifetime voting record. So, I don't need to hire an army of consultants to turn me into a conservative. My record hasn't changed since I was swept into office by the Reagan Revolution 26 years ago. In fact, someone recently pointed out to me that I have more experience in Congress than the top three Democratic candidates combined."
Colorado Pols: "Tom Tancredo continues to move closer to becoming a full-fledged candidate for President. Political commentator Bay Buchanan announced today that she is leaving CNN to become Tancredo's senior advisor, and expects a formal announcement on a Tancredo candidacy in about a week."
MSNBC: "GOP Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a frequent critic of the war, stopped short of calling for Bush's impeachment. But he made clear that some lawmakers viewed that as an option should Bush choose to push ahead despite public sentiment against the war."
"2008 pres"
1:21:46 PM
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Say hello to the Competitive Enterprise Institute. They are refuting many of the connected dots in Al Gore's movie An Inconvenient Truth. They write, "An Inconvenient Truth (AIT), Al Gore's film and book on 'The planetary emergency of global warming and what can be done about it,' purports to be a non-ideological exposition of climate science and moral common-sense. In reality, AIT is a lawyer's brief for global warming alarmism and energy rationing. The only facts and studies Gore considers are those convenient to his scare-them-green agenda. And in numerous instances, he distorts the evidence he cites."
Thanks to Jay Ambrose (via Ocala.com): for the link. Mr. Ambrose adds, "The assertion about a cities-submerging sea rise isn't just a minor part of the Gore film, but one of its exclamation marks, a mighty statement about this mighty, warming catastrophe that's headed our way, only now it is time for Gore to say, 'Oops, sorry about that, folks.' The scientific consensus as expressed in the recent U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is that the rise will not be 20 feet by 2101, or 15 or 10 or 5. It likely won't even be 20 inches, which is to say, we clever human beings will be able to adapt.
"If you think maybe that's it -- that the movie's errors end there -- you haven't read a recent New York Times story in which rank-and-file scientists express concern that the movie confuses extreme speculation with certainty or learned how major think tanks, buttressing their criticisms with documentation, have had at the Oscar-winning movie and companion book with a vengeance. True, some scientists adore Gore, but there are not a few dissenting scientists who have a hard time finding an inarguable word in any of his warming pronouncements."
"2008 pres"
7:07:05 AM
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