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There are plenty of reasons to bash Boston. But for Sen. Rick Santorum to single the city out as more of a fertile breeding ground for sexual abuse than the rest of the country is just wrong. And dumb. Here’s the three-year-old column that Ted Kennedy and friends are up in arms about–and I [...]

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Camp Delta) refuses to apologize for his unhinged remarks likening American interrogators and Gitmo military staff to Nazis, Soviet gulag operators and genocidal maniac Pol Pot. (Radioblogger has the audio; Trey Jackson’s got video.)
Earlier today, as you know, White House spokesman Scott McClellan castigated Durbin.
What America needs is for President Bush himself [...]

Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney is shifting his position on abortion, just as George H.W. Bush did prior to the 1980 election:
Governor Mitt Romney said this week in a nationally published interview that he is ”in a different place” on abortion than at the time of his first run for public office in Massachusetts, when he [...]

Just caught Sen. Kennedy this morning railing against the William Pryor judicial nomination as a “rush to judgement.”
The Pryor nomination timeline:
3/12/2003 Pryor nominated to U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit by President Bush
7/23/2003 Passed out of Senate Judiciary Committee with favorable recommendation
7/31/2003 Democrats refused to allow vote on nomination (cloture denied 53-44)
11/14/2003 Democrats [...]

Meet David Rosen, Hillary Clinton’s former campaign finance director:

He’s probably not smiling right now.
Over the weekend, Power Line picked up on new transcripts of secret tapes between Rosen and Dem operative Ray Reggie, Teddy Kennedy’s brother-in-law, published by the New Orleans Times-Picayune. Writes John Hinderaker:
The transcript is damning, in that it appears to support [...]

Sens. Reid, McConnell, Schumer going at it re. judicial nominations on CSPAN-2 now.
Sen. Reid: “We’re willing to compromise..”
Sen Reid re. up-and-down votes: “That will not happen.”
429pm. Back to the highway bill.
I missed the top. Trackback if you saw/liveblogged it.
459. Sen. Kennedy launching into a diatribe about Abu Ghraib.
Update: More from Arthur Chrenkoff [...]

The New York Sun’s Josh Gerstein is following the trail of Hillary Clinton’s Hollywood fund-raising flim-flam men. He reported earlier this week on a mystery Demo witness who “has offered a guilty plea to bank fraud charges and is likely to become a government witness at the upcoming federal trial of a top finance aide [...]

Bookmark this. According to MyDD (one of the liberal blogs on my Bloglines),
The Senator is launching a website, TedKennedy.com, that is connected to his re-election campaign but, since he will almost certainly not be facing a serious challenge, will primarily function as a national campaign to help Democrats in 2006. Later today the website will [...]

Ted Kennedy
John Kerry
Mary Ann Marsh
Chris Matthews
The Democratic Underground
Donatella Lorch
Peter Jennings
Maureen Dowd (okay, she’s always a sourpuss)
The Arab press
The American press
Did I miss anyone?
Update: Votes already coming in for Harry Reid. Of course.

The VW Polo/suicide bomber ad is here (Quicktime).
It’s a spoof, reports Kevin at Wizbang, where reaction is mixed. Ace of Spades readers give it thumbs up.
Wizbang commenter PTG writes:
Reminds me of the National Lampoon’s fine spoof VW ad from the 70’s: “If Ted Kennedy drove a Volkswagen, he’d be President today.” with photo of [...]

Sen. Arlen Specter’s latest hire is former NAACP assistant general counsel Hannibal G. Williams II Kemerer. The American Prowler has the gory details:
Kemerer was a protégé of Elaine Jones, who three years ago, as head of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, lobbied Sen. Ted Kennedy to delay confirmation of many of President Bush’s judicial nominees [...]

The quotable Mrs. Heinz Kerry (or is she back to Mrs. Heinz?) deserves a 2004 best soundbite list all her own:
Shove it!
Down, down, down!
Our guys weren’t so black and so big.
Ted Kennedy I don’t trust either.
Well, you know, I don’t know Laura Bush. But she seems to be calm, and she has a sparkle in [...]

Well, now that the talking heads don’t have to say “Too Close To Call” anymore, a new batch of mindlessly repeated phrases are polluting the airwaves
“The Country is Deeply Divided.”
“It’s Time to Heal.”
“We Need to Heal.”
“The President Must Reach Out.”
Oh, blecch. Yes, civility is all well and good. But it is hard to stomach the [...]

^&*$%#@$%^#!
Sorry for the spleen-venting so early in the morning, but read this from the AP, headlined “Bush wants intelligence bill free of immigration provisions:”
The White House yesterday asked Congress to reject an attempt in the House to place illegal-immigration measures in an intelligence reform bill.
The Bush administration wants “an effective bill that both Houses can [...]

We’ve all heard about the travel travails of Sen. Edward Kennedy, whose name was placed on a watch list. Now comes word that Rep. John Lewis of Georgia has had a similar problem. Neither Kennedy nor Lewis has been barred from flying, but in Kennedy’s case a supervisor had to overrule a ticketing agent and [...]

(The first part of this file is buried so deep, I figured I better start a new one.)
7/28 Edition.
Best bloggy round-ups. I have limited access to TV tonight. Here are a few good places to visit for convention nuggets: Poliblogger’s got “bite-sized” facts and funnies. INCITE is live-blogging every night.
7/27 Edition.

Best description of [...]

“You’ve gotta like a senator who is a pooper picker-upper,” said Connie Thompson of Laurel, Md., upon seeing Senator Ted Kennedy cleaning up after his dog, Splash (!).
I’ll leave the comments to you all.

That’s the date Ted Kennedy pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of the crime at Chappaquiddick. The New York Post’s Eric Fettman hits one out of the park today in pointing out that the Democrats will honor Kennedy at their party convention during the 35th anniversary of Kennedy’s guilty plea. Fettman’s work is just one [...]