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Thursday, April 26, 2007
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Josh Marshall: "Rep. Renzi (R-AZ): Two hundred grand here, two hundred grand there ... who can keep track?"
"2008 pres"
6:46:57 PM 
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Andrew Sullivan: "Another win for marriage equality in New England. Well, it isn't exactly civil marriage, but it is a form of 'spousal union' which gives all 'the same rights, responsibilities, and obligations as married couples'. The term 'spousal union' strikes me as a breakthrough - a euphemism that isn't really a euphemism."
"2008 pres"
6:40:44 PM
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Riverbend pens a sad, sad, goodbye to Baghdad (and home).
Pew Research Center: "With battle lines drawn over legislation funding the Iraq war, the public is showing little appetite for compromise. Overall, a solid majority of Americans (59%) continue to say they want their representative to support a bill calling for a U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq by August 2008, while just a third want their representative to vote against such legislation."
Colorado Confidential: "Colorado Senators [Ken Salazar and Wayne Allard] split their support for the Iraq-Afghanistan Emergency Supplemental bill today, which passed the Senate on a 51-48 vote, after passing the House of Representatives yesterday on a vote of 218-208.
"2008 pres"
6:13:13 PM
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Mitt Romney (via the AP): "'It's not worth moving heaven and earth spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person [Osama bin Laden],' Romney said.
Political Wire: "Sen. Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign has already undergone a 'course correction' in the wake of Sen. Barack Obama's unexpected popularity, according to Time."
Political Wire: "Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) has called on Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to resign, 'becoming the most prominent Republican to desert the White House over the bungled firing of U.S. attorneys,' reports The Politico."
"2008 pres"
6:08:42 PM
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Spot-on: "While most Republicans would rather support a candidate who opposed abortion rights and supported the Second Amendment, they also realize that, even after seven years of George W. Bush's religious-right mobilization efforts, Americans would be hard pressed to elect such a person. With notable exceptions, like the 2002 California governor's race, Republicans recognize that they, like the Democrats, are a minority party. So, yes, the Religious Right will vote for Rudy Giuliani just as it voted for Arnold Schwarzenegger in California in 2003 and again in 2006.
"Why? Republicans don't like being losers."
"2008 pres"
6:56:36 AM
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Josh Marshall: "It's hard to get too surprised about this stuff anymore. But according to the Post, Karl Rove deputies gave GOP campaign briefings to top officials in at least 15 government agencies last year. Who's vulnerable, who's not and how you can use your agency's resources for the team effort -- that seems to have been the basic idea. Pretty much every department got a briefing. And oddly enough NASA too. That must have been an interesting one."
"2008 pres"
6:39:30 AM
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Captain's Quarters: "The House rejected the message from General David Petraeus, the man the Senate sent just three months ago to command the American forces in Iraq, and voted for a supplemental spending bill that will require the start of an American withdrawal by October 1. It passed on the barest of majorities and has no hope of surviving a veto, but the Democrats insist that they will play this game of chicken all the way to its conclusion."
"2008 pres"
6:36:53 AM
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