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5:30 PM ET, November 15, 2006

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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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Laurie Kellman / ABCNEWS:
Trent Lott Wins Back Leadership Slot  —  Trent Lott Wins Back Leadership Slot in Senate GOP Caucus, Edging Tennessee's Lamar Alexander  —  Mississippi Sen. Trent Lott, ousted from the top Senate Republican leadership job four years ago because of remarks considered racially insensitive …
Michelle Malkin:
Another GOP Maalox moment  —  Just when the MSM focus had fixed on the Democrats' culture of corruption and business-as-usual, along come Beltway Republicans to remind us of how lame the GOP leadership is.  —  Trent Lott is back.  —  Flashback 2002: I called Trent Lott the Republican Party's eternal Maalox moment.
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.
Atrios / Eschaton:
Lottsa Memories
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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Steve Kornacki / New York Observer:
More Tip O'Neill Than Jane Fonda  —  When soon-to-be House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced her support for John Murtha's bid for House Majority Leader earlier this week, the Fox News crowd went berserk.  —  Two of their favorite villains, it seemed, had formally locked elbows—in a doomed mission …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Wampum
Charles Hurt / Washington Times:
House GOP scrambles for leader
The Blotter:
Abramoff Reports to Prison; Officials Focus on Reid, Others  —  Brian Ross and Rhonda Schwartz Report:  —  As convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff reported to federal prison today, a source close to the investigation surrounding his activities told ABC News that Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) …
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 …
Anne Plummer Flaherty / Associated Press:
U.S. Commander Warns Against Iraq Cutoff
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.
Associated Press:
Bush reappoints overseas broadcast chief  —  WASHINGTON —President Bush on Tuesday renominated the chairman of the agency that directs U.S. overseas broadcasts even though the nomination has been stalled in the Senate amid allegations of misconduct.  —  Kenneth Y. Tomlinson was nominated again …
Discussion: Media Blog
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Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:   Bush renominates Tomlinson for Broadcasting Board of Governors
Los Angeles Times:
Conservatives wary of choice to lead RNC  —  Martinez should appeal to Latinos, but may lose support on immigration.  —  WASHINGTON — President Bush's decision to back Sen. Mel Martinez to help lead the Republican Party, a move intended to appeal to disaffected Latino voters …
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John Hawkins / Human Events:   Does the GOP Need Another Thumpin' in 2008 to Get the Message?
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 …
Discussion: Confederate Yankee
Daniel Pipes Columns:
Ahmadinejad - Hostage Taker?  —  Original title: "Цена Вопро 89;а" ["Cost of the Question"]  —  Soon after his election as president of Iran, on June 25, 2005, pictures of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad emerged showing him as a hostage-taker.
Randy Hall / CNSNews:
Giuliani 'Unacceptable' for President, Conservatives Say  —  (CNSNews.com) - Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani enjoys "a lot of good will" from Republicans from his handling of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, but his stance on social issues like abortion and gun control …
Washington Wire:
One More Time for Judicial Nominees  —  After calling for bipartisanship, President Bush surprised Senate Democrats with plans to renominate a controversial list of judges - some of whom may be unacceptable even to a few Republican senators.  "It's an unfortunate signal," said one senior Democratic Senate aide.
Harold Meyerson / Washington Post:
Conservatives in Denial  —  On their journey through the stages of grief, conservatives don't yet seem to have gotten past denial.  —  Republicans may have lost, conservatives argue, but only because they misplaced their ideology.  "[T]hey were punished not for pursuing but for forgetting conservatism …
The Sandmonkey / Rantings of a Sandmonkey:
Sexual harrasment protesters arrested  —  Yesterday was the second sexual harrassment protest in downtown cairo against what went down in the eid incident.  And while the first one passed without incident, the police has cracked down on the second one.  On my way there I bumped into Sharkawy …
Discussion: The Jawa Report and Gateway Pundit
BBC:
Pakistan votes to amend rape laws  —  Pakistan's national assembly has voted to amend the country's strict Sharia laws on rape and adultery.  —  Until now rape cases were dealt with in Sharia courts.  Victims had to have four male witnesses to the crime - if not they faced prosecution for adultery.
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.
Keith Olbermann / MSNBC:
What motivated man accused of sending threats?  —  Chad Castagana linked to several right-wing blogs … MSNBC TV  —  Anchor, 'Countdown'  —  Keith Olbermann  —  Anchor, 'Countdown' … OLBERMANN: Federal authorities still expect the preliminary hearing for Chad Conrad Castagana to continue day after tomorrow.
 
 
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