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Remind me again which party has the majority in the U.S. Senate? Via Reuters:
Senate leaders on Thursday announced a bipartisan compromise on an overhaul of U.S. immigration laws, giving some illegal immigrants a path to citizenship and creating a temporary worker program.
“I think we’re looking like we may be able to dance this afternoon,” Senate [...]

Newly crowned leader of the unhinged Left:
Via GOP.com…
Dem Leaders Have Embraced Sen. Russ Feingold’s (D-WI) Censure “Principle” “Ecstatically”:
“The Left Wing Of The Party Has Greeted Feingold’s Censure Call Ecstatically.” (Shailagh Murray, “A Senate Maverick Acts To Force An Issue, The Washington Post, 3/15/06)
“[C]alifornia Sen. Barbara Boxer [D-CA] Said That She Could Vote For The Resolution.” [...]

The Democrats are pulling an Emily Latella. Tim Chapman at Capitol Report has the scoop:
…Democratic Senator Russ Feingold has introduced a resolution that would censor the President of the United States for “eavesdropping” in the wake of 9/11. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, moments ago, made a unanimous consent motion that the Senate vote on [...]

***scroll for updates…230pm EST Dem Senators Schumer, Clinton, Reid scrambling to organize press conference…248pm EST. Harry Reid looks irked at being outmaneuvered: “We want an up-and-down vote…the devil is in the details.” Fox News cuts away to President Bush signing renewal of Patriot Act. Bush (after thanking Cabinet officials, law enforcement, and GOP leaders, including [...]

Now (via Breitbart/AP):
Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid wrote at least four letters helpful to Indian tribes represented by Jack Abramoff, and the senator’s staff regularly had contact with the disgraced lobbyist’s team about legislation affecting other clients.
The activities _ detailed in billing records and correspondence obtained by The Associated Press _ are far more [...]

Look, she’s for sale on eBay:

I don’t think this is a joke.
The proceeds, if there are any, will apparently go to the YearlyKos, which is welcoming Sen. Minority Leader Harry Reid to its first conference later this summer in Las Vegas.
Hat tip: Jason Smith

Little Green Footballs has the top 20 nominees for the Annual Robert Fisk Award for Idiotarian of the Year. Tough competition this year includes:
Cindy Sheehan
Harry Reid
Mary Mapes
George Clooney
Sean Penn
Howard Dean
Ward Churchill
Dan Rather
Chris Matthews
Nancy Pelosi
Noam Chomsky
Kofi Annan
Ramsey Clark
Send LGF any other names you think should be on the list.
Here’s mine:
For its reckless endangerment of [...]

The Associated Press continues its long pattern of biased political coverage with this article, which implies that former lobbyist Jack Abramoff gave 11 times more money to Republicans than Democrats:
This week, President Bush said it seemed to him that Abramoff “was an equal money dispenser, that he was giving money to people in both political [...]

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The showdown starts at 10:30am EST in the East Room. If Bush hits as hard as he did in his Saturday radio address, this should be good.
Think he’ll call on Helen Thomas?
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Best part of the press conference: Bush challenging the Democratic Senators who voted for the Patriot Act in [...]

President Bush will deliver a speech on the Iraqi elections in just a few minutes at the Wilson Center.
Meantime, Dustin Hawkins has a beautiful photo montage of Iraqi voters.
John Hinderaker has a good interview with Colonel John Kline, who has just returned from Iraq.
Apparently, Jay Leno gets it. A reader e-mails:
I’ve been wondering why the [...]

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John Fund and Betsy Newmark have details. From Fund:
Is Senator Harry Reid all that swift when it comes to U.S. Intelligence matters? Last Wednesday, the Minority Leader appeared on KRNV-TV’s “Nevada Newsmakers” program and dropped a stunning revelation. He had been informed just that day that Osama bin Laden [...]

…and Ramsey Clark is there to hold his hand. From Breitbart/AP:
The trial of Saddam Hussein for alleged crimes against humanity resumed Monday in a heavily guarded courtroom, with the former Iraqi president trying to take command of the proceedings and angrily complaining about having to walk up four flights of stairs in shackles under foreign [...]

The Astute Blogger wonders why the liberals and the media just can’t seem to get excited about burned and defiled churches in France the same way that they get excited when a mosque is defiled.
Michael Barone writes on the different recollections of Bob Woodward and Walter Pincus and what that says about the CIA.
But you [...]

The Republican National Committee needs to learn some internet etiquette. To wit, writing in ALL CAPS or weird capitalization schemes is bad. Posting walls of text full of quotes–but without links to original sources–is bad. Take a look at this RNC page. It’s full of good information useful for pushing back [...]

President Bush takes on the Cindy Sheehan Left:
“While it is perfectly legitimate to criticize my decision or the conduct of the war, it is deeply irresponsible to rewrite the history of how that war began. Some Democrats and anti-war critics are now claiming we manipulated the intelligence and misled the American people about why [...]

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Democratic temper tantrum taking place behind closed Senate doors via Breitbart/AP:
Democrats forced the Republican-controlled Senate into an unusual closed session Tuesday, demanding answers about intelligence that led to the Iraq war. Republicans derided the move as a political stunt.
In a speech on the Senate floor, Democratic leader Harry Reid said the American [...]

***scroll for updates…1030am EDT appearance with GOP Sens…1110am Schumer exploits Rosa Parks…gross…video at The Political Teen***
Via Breitbart/AP, we have a nominee: Samuel A. Alito, Jr. White House will make official announcement at 8am EDT.

Details from USNews:
Nicknamed “Scalito” for views resembling those of conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, Samuel Alito Jr. is a favorite son [...]

Photo of the day:

Harry Reid is so very, very happy with his Supreme Court pick.
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Stephen Bainbridge lists many good reasons he isn’t willing to trust Bush on this nomination.
Lorie Byrd at PoliPundit has a different take on the above photo. Lorie, I hope and pray you are right.

Guess it’s too late…
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130pm EDT. Dick Cheney just finished an interview with Rush Limbaugh. Cheney pleads for Rush to “trust” him. First caller after the segment is a Republican woman who is “so disappointed” with Bush and the GOP…they don’t seem to care about their base…we fought hard to get a Republican majority…I am so [...]

So, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has a new blog called “Give ‘Em Hell, Harry.” You can leave comments here. I’d suggest asking Sen. Reid about this story in one of his hometown newspapers, the Las Vegas Review Journal:
The money that led to the indictment this week of two Las Vegas pastors and [...]

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John Roberts has been confirmed. The vote (via Confirm Them):
Final vote was 78-22.
55 Republicans and 23 Dems voted yes. 22 Dems voted no.
How the Dems voted below the fold.
Democrats voting Yes:
Max Baucus of Montana
Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico
Robert Byrd of West Virginia
Kent Conrad of North Dakota
Russ Feingold of Wisconsin
Tim Johnson of South [...]

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She’s Category 4.
Laurence Simon has a growing list of local Texas bloggers who are tracking Hurricane Rita. Galveston residents are on the move.
The latest from weatherblogger Jeff Masters is here.
The Weather Channel’s blog is here. More from WeatherGuide here.
Engineers are racing to patch the levees in New Orleans. Oil prices up; more rigs [...]

Tony Mauro of the Legal Times reported in February 2005 that SCOTUS nominee John Roberts’ votes “have mainly fallen on the conservative side, but not always:”
Last December, in United States v. Mellen, Roberts ruled in favor of a criminal defendant who challenged his sentence in a fraud case. Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson — yes, an [...]

I know I’ll be sentenced to Operation Respect: Don’t Laugh at Me camp, but there is only one proper reaction to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s attempt to conceal her ignorance of the Kelo decision:
Snort.
Snort. Snort.
Guffaw.
BWAH-hah-hah-hah.

The folks at The Corner called Pelosi out first, and the blogswarm has been rightly merciless.
Betsy Newmark roars:
Where to [...]

From Karl Rove, quoted in today’s NY Times:
Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers.
Right. On.
Democrats are now calling on Rove to apologize. Apologize? For what?
For distilling [...]

Some in the Washington press corps and on Capitol Hill are in a huff because Fox News Channel anchor/reporter Brian Wilson was too aggressive with DNC chair Howard Dean at his press conference with Sen. Harry Reid yesterday.
Awwwwww.
Wilson raised his voice. And he didn’t wait his turn. And he didn’t ask “substantive” questions. [...]

So much for “comity.” And “getting things done.”
Vote fails 56-42. 3 Dems sided with GOP: - Landrieu, Nelson, Pryor.
656pm. Sen. Harry Reid on the floor: “We’re not here to filibuster Bolton, we’re here to get information.”
658pm Frist: It certainly sounds like a filibuster. It quacks like a filibuster.
It does disappoint me…We are going to [...]

Press conference about to begin…Sen McCain et al.
Sen. McCain: We are here, 14 Republicans and Democrats, to announce we have reached an agreement to try and avert a crisis…and pull the Senate back from the precipice..grateful for efforts of Sen. Frist and Sen. Reid…[singles out Sen. Byrd and Sen. Warner] vital to this process.
Pledged to [...]

They’re rolling out the cots for an all-night debate in the Senate tonight on the nomination of Priscilla Owen. More on the non-slumber party preparations here.
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid has arranged to deliver a 90-second nationally televised pitch sometime this evening.
The lefties are gearing up over at The Daily Kos.
On the right, Captain Ed [...]

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Hey, remember when The Nation magazine ran this tasteless anti-Bush take-off of Goya’s “Saturn Devouring one of his Children” last summer?
The Left cheered the bloody cannibalism imagery as inspired and profound.
But when a conservative uses similar rhetoric in a far less inflammatory way, all of a sudden it’s unacceptably “extremist.”
Earlier today, in attempting to [...]