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9:40 AM ET, April 20, 2007

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New York Times:
Gonzales v. Gonzales  —  If Attorney General Alberto Gonzales had gone to the Senate yesterday to convince the world that he ought to be fired, it's hard to imagine how he could have done a better job, short of simply admitting the obvious: that the firing of eight United States attorneys was a partisan purge.
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Washington Post:
Senators Chastise Gonzales at Hearing  —  Members of His Own Party Pile On as Attorney General Defends Firings  —  Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales came under withering attack from members of his own party yesterday over the dismissals of eight U.S. attorneys, facing the first resignation demand …
Discussion: TPMCafe blogs and TPMmuckraker
Washington Post:
Gonzales Testifies Before Senate Panel  —  SEN. PATRICK J. LEAHY, D-VT. CHAIRMAN: Good morning.  —  This week, like all Americans, we join in mourning the tragic killings at Virginia Tech on Monday.  The innocent lives of students and — before we start, I noticed the people holding outside.
New York Times:
Gonzales Endures Harsh Session With Senate Panel  —  Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, trying to salvage his job, endured withering questioning on Thursday from Senate Judiciary Committee members who expressed grave doubts about his truthfulness and judgment in the firing of federal prosecutors.
White House:
President Bush Pleased with Attorney General's Testimony  —  President Bush was pleased with the Attorney General's testimony today.  After hours of testimony in which he answered all of the Senators' questions and provided thousands of pages of documents, he again showed that nothing improper occurred.
Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
Al, the President's Man  —  ALBERTO GONZALES IS BLOODIED BY HIS TRIP TO THE SENATE.  —  Right before we break for lunch in Alberto Gonzales' star turn before the Senate judiciary committee, he repeats, for about the fifth time, some crazy hokum about how anyone who criticizes the actions …
Discussion: TPMmuckraker
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
On a Very Hot Seat With Little Cover and Less Support  —  It did not bode well for Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales when, before he uttered his first word to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday, Senator Jeff Sessions, Republican of Alabama, looked at him as if he were headed …
Discussion: Washington Post and Discourse.net
Lara Jakes Jordan / Associated Press:
GOP senator calls for Gonzales to resign  —  WASHINGTON - Attorney General Alberto Gonzales struggled Thursday to convince skeptical senators he did nothing improper in firing eight federal prosecutors, losing ground as a second senator from his own party joined the calls for his resignation.
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Gonzales Flops In Senate Hearings And Loses Republican Support
Discussion: Salon and Kiko's House
Washington Post:
Roughed Up on the Hill  —  YESTERDAY'S "reconfirmation hearing" …
Discussion: TPMCafe blogs
Nancy A. Youssef / Real Cities:
Training Iraqi troops no longer driving force in U.S. policy  —  WASHINGTON - Military planners have abandoned the idea that standing up Iraqi troops will enable American soldiers to start coming home soon and now believe that U.S. troops will have to defeat the insurgents and secure control of troubled provinces.
Lynn M. Paltrow / American Prospect:
Miscarriage of Justice  —  The federal "partial-birth" abortion ban has grave implications for all pregnant women, not only those seeking to end pregnancies.  —  Yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the first federal law that bans an abortion procedure for all women and all doctors in all states.
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TMZ.com:
Alec Baldwin's Threatening Message to Daughter  —  An enraged Alec Baldwin unleashed a volcanic tirade of threats and insults on his 11-year-old daughter, Ireland, calling her a "thoughtless little pig," and bashing her mother Kim Basinger — and TMZ has obtained the whole thing unfiltered and raw.
Open Congress:
S.223  —  Blog articles for S.223  —  S.223: A bill to require Senate candidates to file designations, statements, and reports in electronic form.  —  APRIL 20, 2007  —  S.223  —  S.223 A bill to require Senate candidates to file designations, statements, and reports in electronic form. introduced Jan. 09, 2007 293 views
Mike Soraghan / The Hill:
Three days after guilty plea, Griles ties the knot  —  Two Bush administration officials who have been linked in scandal are now linked in wedlock.  —  The union of former Deputy Interior Secretary J. Steven Griles and Sue Ellen Wooldridge could have implications for the investigation into Griles's ties to ex-lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
Rick Perlstein / commonsense.ourfuture.org:
Rick Perlstein's blog  —  Last year I attended a major conference of conservative intellectuals and activists at Princeton University as the token liberal.  There I heard Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention say that the Democratic Party ostracizes all pro-life Democrats.
Rocky Mountain News:
Nacchio found guilty  —  For a few minutes Thursday afternoon, Joe Nacchio dared to smile.  —  Seated between his attorneys, the former Qwest CEO and one-time titan of the telecom industry looked hopeful as U.S. District Judge Edward Nottingham read verdicts of not guilty to the first 23 counts of insider trading.
Discussion: Business Week and TalkLeft
Deb Riechmann / Associated Press:
Bush muses on marriage, chicken-plucking  —  WASHINGTON - Strange things sometimes come out of President Bush's mouth.  "Polls just go poof."  "Remember the rug?"  —  When Bush went to Ohio on Thursday to talk about terrorism, he ended up musing about marriage and chicken-plucking plants …
 
 
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