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Washington Post:
Attempt to Pick Successor Is Foiled  —  Blunt Temporarily Takes Reins as Conservatives Reject Dreier  —  As the legal troubles mounted for House Majority Leader Tom DeLay in recent weeks, he and House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert talked repeatedly to craft a detailed strategy for the Republican leadership …
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American Spectator:
Post A Comment Below  —  Name:  —  Blog:  —  If temporarily deposed House Republican Leader Tom DeLay didn't like "Operation Offset" and its creators at the Republican Study Committee, led by Rep. Mike Pence, he surely hates it now.  —  That's because Pence and his budget-cutting plan …
Discussion: Daly Thoughts and Betsy's Page
John Hawkins / Right Wing News:
It's Time For Tom DeLay To Go  —  As most of you undoubtedly already know, Tom DeLay has been indicted on dubious charges by a prosecutor with a history of politically motivated prosecutions.  Even setting aside frivolous prosecutions past, Ronnie Earle, the prosecutor …
Larry Margasak / Associated Press:   Blunt Hired Consultant Who's Also Indicted
Mark Schmitt / tpmcafe.com:
This Will Be Fun to Watch
Discussion: NewDonkey.com and TAPPED
Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:
Let's be Blunt  —  All indications were the Rep. David Dreier …
Discussion: CNN and TAPPED
Amy Westfeldt / Associated Press:
Museum Dropped From WTC Site for Now  —  NEW YORK — Bowing to pressure from furious Sept. 11 families, Gov. George Pataki on Wednesday removed a proposed freedom center from the space reserved for it near the planned World Trade Center memorial, saying the museum project had aroused "too much opposition, too much controversy."
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New York Times:
Museum Dropped From WTC Site for Now
Discussion: The Anchoress
Associated Press:
Pataki Ousts Freedom Center From Ground Zero
Discussion: Slant Point and Shock & Blog
Bloomberg:   Pataki Says Freedom Center Won't Be at Ground Zero (Update2)
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
They will not build it.  —  So we have bittersweet victory …
Discussion: Mudville Gazette
The Poor Man Institute:
Republican whining about DeLay/Frist - early returns  —  The DeLay indictment/Frist investigation news seems to have caught the jingosphere largely off-guard, which says pretty much all that needs to be said about their grasp of Washington reality. … Not so out-of touch that they'll actually defend him …
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Howard Fineman / MSNBC:
Why can't the Democrats capitalize?  —  With the White House on the ropes after Katrina, Dems waffle and wheeze  —  WASHINGTON - With George W. Bush's presidency mired in the muck of hurricanes and doubts about the war, you'd think Democrats would be bursting with energy, eagerly expecting to regain power.
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Turks Challenge Hughes on Iraq  —  Envoy Faces Angry Audience of Women's Rights Activists  —  ISTANBUL, Sept. 28 — A group of Turkish women's rights activists confronted Undersecretary of State Karen Hughes on Wednesday with emotional and heated complaints about the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq …
Discussion: Obsidian Wings and Needlenose
U.S. Newswire:
Justice Department Releases List of Pardons Granted by President Bush  —  WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 /U.S. Newswire/ — President George W. Bush granted pardons to the following 14 individuals:  — Gene Armand Bridger, Elkhart, Ind.  —  Offense: Conspiracy to commit mail fraud, and mail fraud; 18 U.S.C. 2, 371, and 1341.
Discussion: Wampum, ACSBlog and TalkLeft
Associated Press:
Bush narrows Supreme Court list  —  Judges, lawyers being considered, analysts say  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush, nearing the end of his search for a successor to retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, has whittled his list to a handful of candidates and could announce his decision by week's end.
Discussion: King of Zembla and TalkLeft
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Will / Attytood:   UPDATED: New Supreme Court frontrunner's ties to Bush's National Guard scandal
Newsweek:
The 'Second' Man  —  The slain Abu Azzam may not have been Zarqawi's top deputy after all.  Will his death have any effect on the Iraq insurgency?  —  Sept. 28, 2005 - U.S. intelligence officials and counterterrorism analysts are questioning whether a slain terrorist …
Barry Moody / Reuters:
Reuters says U.S. troops obstruct reporting of Iraq  —  LONDON, Sept 28 (Reuters) - The conduct of U.S. troops in Iraq, including increasing detention and accidental shootings of journalists, is preventing full coverage of the war reaching the American public, Reuters said on Wednesday.
New York Times:
Fear Exceeded Crime's Reality in New Orleans  —  NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 25 - After the storm came the siege.  In the days after Hurricane Katrina, terror from crimes seen and unseen, real and rumored, gripped New Orleans.  The fears changed troop deployments, delayed medical evacuations …
Discussion: JunkYardBlog and Betsy's Page
Joseph L. Galloway / Knight Ridder:
Military higher-ups get to the bottom of abuse scandals  —  WASHINGTON - Well, they finally got to the bottom of the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal this week.  An Army court martial convicted Pfc. Lynndie England and sentenced her to three years in prison and a dishonorable discharge …
Discussion: Needlenose

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