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Was once in thirty years not enough? Like the deadly black mold in New Orleans, the calls to cut and run in Iraq are spreading. Warning that other global threats “cannot be ignored,” Rep. John Murtha, D-Pennsylvania, a leading adviser on defense issues, called on Thursday for the immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. [...]

So, the First Lady pulled out the sexism card in her defense of Harriet Miers on NBC’s Today Show. Matt Lauer lapped it up. Did the White House not inform Mrs. Bush that some of the most vocal criticism and questioning of the nomination comes from conservative women? Or does she buy into the Left’s [...]

I wrote about Chuck Hagels’ Vietnam comparison several days ago at Polipundit and the post generated quite a few comments, including some calling me a chickenhawk. (Those are some of my favorites.) Last night, Kerry Westerwick made some excellent points on the subject that I had not considered. Drudge’s shouting reads “GOP Senator Says Iraq [...]

83 dead. Who will be first to blame Bush, Blair, and Iraq? Joe Gandelman has an excellent round-up, as always, with reminders of al Qaeda’s longtime targeting of Egyptian tourism. The Counterterrorism Blog also has comprehensive coverage. Andrew Cochran notes: In looking for a motive, note that the trial of the October 2004 suspects is [...]

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, [...]

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 have [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

^&*$%#@$%^#! 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 [...]

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 [...]

“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 [...]