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1:40 PM ET, November 13, 2006

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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
For Democrats, How Long a Honeymoon?  —  The media kept saying the war was going badly.  The Bush administration said progress in Iraq was being obscured by relentlessly negative coverage.  —  The media kept saying the federal government's response to Hurricane Katrina was badly botched.
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Josh Manchester / TCS Daily:
Why Intellectuals Love Defeat  —  James Carroll, recently writing in the Boston Globe, wondered if America could finally accept defeat in Iraq, and be the better for it, comparing it to Vietnam:  —  "But what about the moral question?  For all of the anguish felt over the loss of American lives …
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Pelosi Endorses Murtha as Next Majority Leader  —  House Speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) endorsed Rep. John P. Murtha (D-Pa.) yesterday as the next House majority leader, thereby stepping into a contentious intraparty fight between Murtha and her current deputy, Maryland's Steny H. Hoyer.
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New York Times:
Democrats Push for Troop Cuts Within Months  —  Democratic leaders in the Senate vowed on Sunday to use their new Congressional majority to press for troop reductions in Iraq within a matter of months, stepping up pressure on the administration just as President Bush is to be interviewed …
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Michael Rubin / Opinion Journal:
Rumsfeld and the Realists  —  Consistency is irrelevant to progressives.  —  On Dec. 20, 1983, Donald Rumsfeld, then Ronald Reagan's Middle East envoy, met Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in Baghdad.  According to declassified documents, the Reagan administration sought …
Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard
Greg Miller / Los Angeles Times:
Democratic lawmakers will seek a phased withdrawal from Iraq
Discussion: TIME
Robert D. Novak / Townhall.com:
Stupid party decides  —  WASHINGTON — The depleted House Republican caucus, a minority in the next Congress, convenes at 8 a.m. in the Capitol Friday on the brink of committing an act of supreme irrationality.  The House members blame their leadership for tasting the bitter dregs of defeat.
Discussion: Reason Magazine
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Robert Novak / Chicago Sun Times:
Rout brings no reform to House GOP
Naftali Bendavid / Chicago Tribune:
The House that Rahm Built  —  Rahm Emanuel, Chicago's profane, ruthless, savvy operative, remade the Democrats in his image—and helped the party overcome 12 years of humiliation  —  Rahm Emanuel was seething.  —  He was hurtling down an asphalt road in upstate New York on the 47th trip …
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Mark Schmitt / TAPPED:
THE "WRONG" CANDIDATES.  Michael Tomasky yesterday delivered an eloquent version of the challenge to the conventional wisdom that Democrats won the House by running conservative candidates.  He's right, of course, although as I argued, the perception that the Democratic Party has moved …
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias
Bill Gertz / Washington Times:
China sub secretly stalked U.S. fleet  —  A Chinese submarine stalked a U.S. aircraft carrier battle group in the Pacific last month and surfaced within firing range of its torpedoes and missiles before being detected, The Washington Times has learned.  —  The surprise encounter highlights …
Blaine Harden / Washington Post:
A True Blue Libertarian  —  Stan Jones, the Also-Ran Who Changed the Hue of Politics  —  BOZEMAN, Mont. — Stan Jones, a Montana libertarian widely known for his peculiar blue skin, can arguably be said to have recast the political complexion of the U.S. Senate, turning it from Republican red to the same color as his face.
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Robert Pear / New York Times:
Administration Opposes Democrats' Plan for Negotiating Medicare Drug Prices  —  The Bush administration said on Sunday that it would strenuously oppose one of the Democrats' top priorities for the new Congress: legislation authorizing the government to negotiate with drug companies to secure lower drug prices for Medicare beneficiaries.
NY Daily News:
The rise of the Mommy Party  —  Pelosi's at the helm, Hillary's in the wings and - for now - Bush is in the doghouse  —  With Democrats seizing control of the House and Senate, a debate has started over how significant their victory was.  Does it potentially mark a generational power shift?
Telegraph:
Wrong problem, wrong solution  —  Christopher Monckton created considerable controversy last week with his article questioning the science that claims human activity is responsible for climate change.  Now he challenges the economic assumptions of the Stern report  —  In the climate change debate, one figure is real.
Emily Smith / The Sun:
Borat spanked by angry Yank  —  BORAT star Sacha Baron Cohen was beaten up by a passer-by after he tried to play a prank as his alter ego.  —  He approached the man and said: "I like your clothings.  Are nice!  Please may I buying?  I want have sex with it."  —  But the bystander didn't see the joke.
Discussion: Slog and Althouse
Reuters:
California man arrested for mail threats to celebs  —Text+WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A California man suspected of mailing threatening letters containing a suspicious white powder to celebrities and U.S. politicians has been arrested and could face federal charges on Monday, the FBI said.
New York Times:
For Conservatives, It's Back to Basics  —  THE morning after the Republican drubbing in the midterm elections, Ken Mehlman, chairman of the party, headed to the weekly coalition meeting where limited government conservatives, Christian traditionalists and gun-rights groups gathered to plot strategy.
Times of London:
Hezbollah's missiles back in Lebanon  —  FOUR months after Israel launched its onslaught against Hezbollah, the Lebanese guerrillas are back in south Lebanon stronger than ever and armed with more rockets than they had before the conflict, according to Israeli intelligence.
 
 
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Los Angeles Times:
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John Heilprin / Associated Press:
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Robert Spencer / Front Page Magazine:
CAIR's Congress  —  With the Democratic victory in the midterm …
Houston Chronicle:
How the hammer fell on his own party
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Jon Meacham / Newsweek:
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