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1:30 PM ET, November 15, 2006

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Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
Unfit for Majority Leader  —  The videotape is grainy, dark and devastating.  The congressman and the FBI undercover agents — the congressman thinks they represent an Arab sheik willing to pay $50,000 to get immigration papers — are talking business in the living room of a secretly wired Washington townhouse.
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Josephine Hearn / The Hill:
Pelosi pulls out the stops for Murtha  —  Speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is imploring her colleagues to support Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) for majority leader, multiple House Democrats said yesterday, dealing an unexpected but not necessarily fatal blow to Murtha's opponent, Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.).
John Fund / Opinion Journal:
Meet the New Boss  —  John Murtha and Congress's "culture of corruption."  —  House Speaker-designate Nancy Pelosi's endorsement of Rep. John Murtha for majority leader, the No. 2 position in the Democratic leaderhsip, has roiled her caucus.  "She will ensure that they [Mr. Murtha and his allies] win.
Steve Kornacki / New York Observer:
More Tip O'Neill Than Jane Fonda
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Wampum
Associated Press:
Lott succeeds in leadership comeback  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Trent Lott, ousted from the top Senate Republican leadership job four years ago because of remarks considered racially insensitive, won election to the No. 2 post Wednesday for the minority GOP in the next Congress.
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Lamar Alexander For Minority Whip  —  Captain's Quarters has no hesitation in endorsing Lamar Alexander for the position of Minority Whip in the next session of the Senate.  While I have regard for Senator Alexander, this decision has far more to do with his competition than with the Tennessean himself.
Shailagh Murray / Washington Post:   Spending Bills Stall as Congress Focuses on Leadership Races
Michael R. Gordon / New York Times:
Get Out Now?  Not So Fast, Experts Say  —  One of the most resonant arguments in the debate over Iraq holds that the United States can move forward by pulling its troops back, as part of a phased withdrawal.  If American troops begin to leave and the remaining forces assume a more limited role …
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Robin Wright / Washington Post:
Bush Initiates Iraq Policy Review Separate From Baker Group's  —  President Bush formally launched a sweeping internal review of Iraq policy yesterday, pulling together studies underway by various government agencies, according to U.S. officials.  —  The initiative, begun after Bush met …
Michael Howard / Guardian:
Scores of academics seized in mass kidnap  —  Five senior Iraqi police officers were arrested last night after gunmen in police uniforms seized scores of people at a prominent scientific research institute in Baghdad in an audacious operation that underlined the lawlessness gripping …
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Ralph Peters / New York Post:
ARABIAN NIGHTMARES  —  YESTERDAY, 80 terrorists in police uniforms raided an Iraqi research institute in Baghdad, rounded up 100-plus male students, loaded them into vehicles in broad daylight and drove away.  —  They couldn't have pulled it off without the complicity of key elements within …
Discussion: Confederate Yankee
Jim Webb / Opinion Journal:
Class Struggle  —  American workers have a chance to be heard.  —  The most important—and unfortunately the least debated—issue in politics today is our society's steady drift toward a class-based system, the likes of which we have not seen since the 19th century.
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Reid Pledges To Press Bush On Iraq Policy  —  Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.), who was elected Senate majority leader yesterday, said last night that President Bush still has not grasped the urgent need to change course in Iraq.  Reid vowed to press quickly for phased troop withdrawals …
Discussion: AMERICAblog
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Charles Hurt / Washington Times:
House GOP scrambles for leader
Mark Leibovich / New York Times:
Enter, Pariah: Now It's Hugs for Lieberman  —  Senator Joseph I. Lieberman strode into a Democratic caucus gathering like he owned the place or, at the very least, like someone who is a flight risk and could leave at any minute, taking the Democrats' new majority with him.
Aaron Klein / WorldNetDaily:
freed for $2 million  —  Terrorists used cash for arms to 'hit Zionists,' payment said to encourage more abductions  —  JERUSALEM - Palestinian terror groups and security organizations in the Gaza Strip received $2 million from a United States source in exchange for the release …
Duncan Gardham / Telegraph:
Hate videos of Muslim group they failed to ban  —  A Muslim organisation which the Government chose not to ban is preaching hatred and has infiltrated the Home Office, an investigation has revealed.  —  Hizb ut-Tahrir is showing inflammatory videos to small groups of followers then encouraging them to attack non-believers.
Discussion: Daily Mail, Hot Air and USS Neverdock
Daniela Altimari / Hartford Courant:
`Landslide Joe?'  —  Courtney Lands Capitol Nickname In Razor-Thin 2nd District Recount  —  The studious Democratic lawyer from Vernon appears to have clinched a win in the 2nd Congressional District.  —  And it took only 168 hours and 49 minutes after the polls closed on election night to receive the news.
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias
Associated Press:
Toys for Tots rejects talking Jesus dolls  —  LOS ANGELES, California (AP) — A talking Jesus doll has been turned down by the Marine Reserves' Toys for Tots program.  —  A Los Angeles company offered to donate 4,000 of the 1-foot-tall dolls, which quote Bible verses, for distribution to needy children this holiday season.
Jill Tucker / San Francisco Chronicle:
School board votes to dump JROTC program  —  After 90 years in San Francisco high schools, the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps must go, the San Francisco school board decided Tuesday night.  —  The Board of Education voted 4-2 to eliminate the popular program, phasing it out over two years.
 
 
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