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9:30 AM ET, November 16, 2006

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Simon Tisdall / Guardian:
US plans last big push in Iraq  —  Strategy document calls for extra 20,000 troops, aid for Iraqi army and regional summit  —  President George Bush has told senior advisers that the US and its allies must make "a last big push" to win the war in Iraq and that instead of beginning …
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New York Times:
General Warns of Risks in Iraq if G.I.'s Are Cut  —  The top American military commander for the Middle East said Wednesday that to begin a significant troop withdrawal from Iraq over the next six months would lead to an increase in sectarian killings and hamper efforts to persuade …
Austin Bay / strategypage.com:
James Baker and the Desert Storm Legacy  —  Iraqis haven't forgotten the aftermath of Desert Storm.  With Saddam's troops forced to retreat from Kuwait, Shia Arabs throughout southern Iraq rose up against Saddam's tyranny.  Kurds in the north also rebelled.
Discussion: Outside The Beltway and The Corner
David Stout / New York Times:
Top General Warns Against Iraq Timetable  —  The top American military commander in the Middle East warned today against setting a timetable for withdrawing United States troops from Iraq and raised the possibility that more might be needed, if only temporarily, to help that country's security forces …
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Guardian: Bush to send more troops in "last big push" to stabilize Iraq
Discussion: New York Times
Chris Matthews / MSNBC:
Rep. John Murtha defends his ethics  —  "Hardball" host Chris Matthews asks Murtha about leadership, Iraq, ethics … Host of 'Hardball'  —  In his first interview since reportedly calling a Democratic bill on lobbying and ethics "total crap," Rep. John Murtha told "Hardball" …
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David Sirota / The Nation:
Wanted: A Real Leader  —  There is one more election that will happen in this, the year that history may one day call the Great Democratic Realignment.  It is the election for House majority leader between contenders US Reps. Steny Hoyer and Jack Murtha, set for Thursday.
jules crittenden:
Murtha vs. Hoyer: Sit Back and Enjoy ...  Today offers the kind of spectacle that is a small consolation prize for a party out of power: the victors pummeling each other over the spoils.  The election having been lost, today's majority leadership race is a win-win.
Los Angeles Times:
Democratic leadership hopefuls marked by ethical questions  —  The two candidates for House majority leader know how to leverage their connections.  —  WASHINGTON — Though incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi promises to push through ethical reforms in Congress, both of the Democrats vying …
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Washington Post:
Pelosi Splits Democrats With Push For Murtha
Discussion: The Jawa Report
Andrew Taylor / Associated Press:
Pelosi faces no-win outcome over Murtha
Discussion: TPMmuckraker and Wake up America
Perry Bacon Jr / Time:
What Trent Lott Brings to the Party  —  Analysis: The election of the once disgraced politician as the number two Senate Republican may mean that the G.O.P. has no intention of getting along too well with the new party in power  —  To some observers, the choice of Trent Lott as the new number …
Discussion: protein wisdom and Centerfield
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Mark Leibovich / New York Times:
In Senate Shift, Big Comeback for Trent Lott
Discussion: BuzzMachine
New York Times:
Trent Lott Wins Back Senate Leadership Slot
Discussion: Balloon Juice and The Reaction
Ellen Knickmeyer / Washington Post:
Sectarian Strife in Iraq Imperils Entire Region, Analysts Warn  —  BAGHDAD — While American commanders have suggested that civil war is possible in Iraq, many leaders, experts and ordinary people in Baghdad and around the Middle East say it is already underway, and that the real worry ahead …
Edward Wyatt / New York Times:
O. J. Simpson Writes a Book He'll Discuss on Fox TV  —  O. J. Simpson, who was acquitted 11 years ago in the 1994 death of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald L. Goldman has written a book and will appear on television telling "how he would have committed the murders …
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Think Progress:
Larry King Admits He's Never Used The Internet: 'Do You Punch Little Buttons and Things?'  »  —  Last night CNN's Larry King confessed to Roseanne Barr that he's never used the Internet.  King expressed doubt that the Internet was a viable political medium because "there's 80 billion things on it."
Discussion: The Reaction, Attytood and TMZ.com
Billmon / Whiskey Bar:
Comrade Webb  —  When I came to Washington in the early 1980s, Jim Webb was best known as a vociferous spokesman for the movement to scrap the design for the Vietnam War Memorial — or, as he and his fellow protestors called it, "the wall of shame."  He was the prototypical Angry Vietnam Vet …
Kirsten Powers / Opinion:
Election signals decline of old school liberalism  —  It's more glacial shift than radical revolution, but change is afoot in the Democratic Party. … In a low point in Democratic Party history, Pennsylvania Gov. Bob Casey was banned from speaking at the 1992 Democratic Convention for being opposed to abortion rights.
Discussion: TAPPED and DownWithTyranny!
Center for Media and Democracy:
Still Not the News: Stations Overwhelmingly Fail to Disclose VNRs  —  A follow-up multimedia report on television newsrooms' continuing use of fake news provided by PR firms  —  Diane Farsetta and Daniel Price, Center for Media and Democracy  — Video footage of 33 video news releases …
Associated Press:
Soldier pleads guilty in Iraq rape and killings  —  FORT CAMPBELL, Kentucky (AP) — One of four U.S. soldiers accused of raping and killing a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and killing her family, pleaded guilty Wednesday in a Kentucky military court.  —  Spc. James P. Barker also agreed to testify …
Discussion: Kiko's House
Lesley Clark / Miami Herald:
Some grumble over choice of Martinez to head GOP  —  Sen. Mel Martinez was tapped for the top job at the Republican National Committee, spurring complaints from conservatives who fear he will push for relaxed immigration laws.  —  lclark@MiamiHerald.com  —  WASHINGTON - A week after Republicans …
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Whither The GOP?  —  After the midterm elections, many of us hoped that the Republican Party would return to conservative First Principles in an attempt to recapture the energy that propelled them to majority status in 1994.  Refocusing on the bedrock principles of limited government …
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
 
 
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