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6:15 PM ET, April 3, 2007

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White House:
President Bush Makes Remarks on the Emergency Supplemental  —  THE PRESIDENT: Good morning.  I've just had a good meeting with Secretary of Defense Bob Gates, and General Pete Pace, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.  Secretary Gates and General Pace updated me on the deployment of American reinforcements to Iraq.
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Zeina Karam / Associated Press:
Pelosi Rebuffs Criticism of Syria Visit  —  DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi toured Damascus on Tuesday, the highest- ranking American politician to visit Syria since relations began to deteriorate four years ago.  President Bush criticized the trip, saying it sends mixed signals to President Bashar Assad.
Discussion: Wizbang
Greg Sargent / Horses Mouth:
Okay, here's a depressing new twist to the big news orgs' irksome …
Discussion: Shakesville
David Stout / New York Times:   Bush Criticizes Democrats on War Funds
Jonathan Singer / MyDD:
John Kerry: McCain Approached Me About Joining Dem Ticket in 2004  —  Note: You can now read the rest of the interview with Senator Kerry here.  —  On Monday afternoon I had the chance to speak with Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, the Democratic Party's nominee for President in 2004.
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Deacon / Power Line:
DID MCCAIN APPROACH KERRY?  —  The left-wing blog MyDD reports that, according to John Kerry, John McCain's staff approached him (not the other way around) about the idea of McCain running with Kerry in 2004.  Kerry said reports that McCain's approached the Dems about switching parties
Shaun Mullen / The Moderate Voice:   John McCain is Toast & For Good Reason
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Audio: Kerry says McCain's staff approached him about joining …
Faiz / Think Progress:
Memo To Bush: 57 Days  —  The US News Political Bulletin reported this morning that "White House strategists are now pulling out all the stops to blame the Democratic majority in Congress for a potential delay in funding the Iraq war. ...  White House aides have adopted a new gambit …
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Shailagh Murray / Washington Post:
Reid Backs Iraq War-Funds Cutoff  —  Senate Leader Makes It Clear a Bush Veto Wouldn't End Debate on Withdrawal  —  Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid yesterday endorsed the Senate's toughest antiwar bill yet, a bid to cut off funding within a year, sending a clear signal to President Bush …
Anne Flaherty / Associated Press:
Bush criticizes Democrats over war funds  —  WASHINGTON - President Bush expressed frustration on Tuesday with the congressional debate on Iraq war spending and accused majority-party Democrats of being "more interested in fighting political battles in Washington than providing our troops what they need."
Think Progress:
Gingrich: When I Said 'Language Of Living In The Ghetto,' I Meant Hebrew (Or Maybe Yiddish) »  —  Newt Gingrich said this past weekend that the U.S. should abolish bilingual education so that people aren't speaking "the language of living in a ghetto."
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Jeffrey Feldman / FRAMESHOP:   Newt Needs Night School
Newsdesk / The Swamp:
Gingrich: Spanish a 'ghetto' language
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
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Mark Moller / Cato-at-liberty:
Supreme Court to EPA: Hurry Up and Wait?
Discussion: SCOTUSblog, Gristmill and WSJ.com
Robert A. Levy / Examiner:
Should Congress or the courts decide D.C. gun ban's fate?
Sky News:
New Iran Hostage Pictures  —  Iran has released fresh pictures of the 15 British sailors and marines being held captive in the country.  —  The first picture, apparently a still taken from a video, showed six sailors sitting in blue and red tracksuits on a carpet in a room.
Discussion: Hot Air and Stop The ACLU
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Kim Gamel / Associated Press:
Iraqi merchant: McCain visit propaganda  —  BAGHDAD - Iraqis in the capital said Tuesday that Sen. John McCain (news, bio, voting record)'s account of a heavily guarded visit to a central market did not represent the current reality in Baghdad, with one calling it "propaganda."
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Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
Police Log Confirms FBI Role In Arrests  —  Group Detained, Questioned During D.C. War Protest  —  A secret FBI intelligence unit helped detain a group of war protesters in a downtown Washington parking garage in April 2002 and interrogated some of them on videotape about their political …
Discussion: Balloon Juice and Prairie Weather
CNN:
Hospital: Woman dead after CNN Center shooting … ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) — A woman has died according to Atlanta's Grady Hospital following a shooting Tuesday at the CNN Center complex, in what Atlanta police called a "domestic situation."  —  The woman, who witnesses said appeared to be pregnant …
Discussion: digg and Scared Monkeys
Greg Sargent / Horses Mouth:
Via Joan Walsh, NBC's Andrea Mitchell is confirming her scoop that (a) moderate Republican Senators don't think the "surge" will work but temporarily supported it anyway; and (b) will withdraw their support for the war if the "surge" doesn't show progress by late August.
Eric Kleefeld / Election Central:
McCain Camp Recruits Nixon's Jew-Counter As Finance Co-Chair  —  John McCain's campaign has just put out a press release announcing that GOP money-man Fred Malek has signed on as national finance co-chair.  That's a very important, high-level gig.  —  There's only one problem, though …
Discussion: The Nation
Matthew Yglesias:
Arguing About Nothing  —  Andrew Sullivan proclaims the following from Greg Mankiw to be the quote of the day: … I clicked the link and read the whole Mankiw post to see if there was some specific controversy over public policy to which this parable was supposed to speak, but there isn't.
Eric Boehlert / Media Matters for America:
Can The Note save itself?  —  The unexpected personnel notice posted by ABC News on March 21 no doubt raised eyebrows among the Beltway's political and media elite.  The network announced that Mark Halperin, the high-profile and plugged-in director of ABC's political unit and author …
Jeffrey H. Birnbaum / Washington Post:
Wal-Mart, the Democrats' New Friend  —  Wal-Mart has taken its lumps lately, especially from the Democratic Party over its treatment of employees.  So the company has been courting the new majority on Capitol Hill by doing a lot of the standard stuff: hiring Democratic executives and donating …
Atrios / Eschaton:
Grover Might Be Right  —  GFR quotes Grover Norquist: … It's hard for non-lizard brain people to see how they could pivot on a dime like that, but noted Bush basers like Glenn Reynolds spent years arguing against more troops in Iraq then immediately went to arguing the opposite as soon as Dear Leader said it was a good idea.
Discussion: Firedoglake
 
 
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