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2:35 PM ET, April 23, 2007

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White House:
President Bush Meets with General Petraeus, Discusses War in Iraq  —  THE PRESIDENT: It's my high honor to welcome General David Petraeus back to the Oval Office, and I appreciate Deputy Secretary England and General Pace joining us.  General Petraeus has taken on a very important assignment …
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Associated Press:
Bush reaffirms rejecting timetable  —  Reid spoke a few hours after Bush said he will reject any legislation along the lines of what Democrats will pass.  "I will strongly reject an artificial timetable (for) withdrawal and/or Washington politicians trying to tell those who wear the uniform how to do their job," the president said.
David Espo / Associated Press:
Reid: Bush in denial over war in Iraq  —  WASHINGTON - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (news, bio, voting record) said Monday President Bush is in a state of denial over Iraq, "and the new Congress will show him the way."  Holding his ground, Bush renewed his staunch opposition to timetables for U.S. troop withdrawals.
Karin Brulliard / Washington Post:
'Gated Communities' For the War-Ravaged  —  U.S. Tries High Walls and High Tech To Bring Safety to Parts of Baghdad  —  BAGHDAD — The U.S. military is walling off at least 10 of Baghdad's most violent neighborhoods and using biometric technology to track some of their residents …
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Michael Isikoff / Newsweek:
The GOP: Waiting for Him to Walk  —  The President's Old Friend: The A.G.'s poor performance at the hearings cost him support on the Hill  —  The pressure on Alberto Gonzales to resign intensified last week following his daylong grilling before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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Faiz / Think Progress:
Bush: Gonzales 'answered as honestly as he could.'
Discussion: Shakesville
Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
Senators Press for Answers on GSA Chief
Discussion: Think Progress
Washington Post:
Saving the Earth: The Biodiesel Bus Blog  —  Singer Sheryl Crow and environmentalist Laurie David have been traveling across America on a two-week Stop Global Warming College Tour, which winds up today at George Washington University.  Crow and David (co-producer of the documentary …
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Steve M. / No More Mister Nice Blog:
JESUS WANTS US TO EXPLOIT THIS TRAGEDY  —  Well, it's a free country, so the Reverend Donald Wilmon's American Family Association has the inalienable right to post "The Day They Kicked God Out of the Schools," a video making those old familiar arguments — that school shootings are the fault …
Discussion: Macsmind, Hot Air and NewsBusters.org
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Matt / Think Progress:
AFA blames school shootings on lack of prayer, spankings.  —  In a new video, the the right-wing American Family Association attributes the tragedy at Virginia Tech to: a lack of prayer in school, a lack of the Bible in school, a lack of spanking kids, a lack of physical punishment in school …
Matthew Yglesias:
Ever-Larger Media Matt  —  Okay.  The time has come to let you all in on some changes forthcoming soon in my life and on this blog.  Most notably, I'm leaving my job at The American Prospect to take a position at The Atlantic Monthly where my primary responsibility is going to be . . . producing this blog.
Discussion: Sadly, No!
Greg Sargent / Horses Mouth:
This is a bad one.  The Washington Post's David Broder was interviewed today by XM radio's Bob Edwards, and Broder hammered Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid for declaring the "war is lost" as follows: … Audio here.  —  Look, you can argue that Reid's choice of words was a poor one …
Discussion: Think Progress and Eschaton
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John Hinderaker / News Bloggers Blog:
Who's in Denial?  —  Last week, Harry Reid was widely criticized …
Discussion: Power Line
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Debates Losing a Bit of Luster in a Big Field  —  The last time Jonathan Prince checked, there were nearly 40 requests for John Edwards, the Democratic presidential candidate for whom he works, to appear at a candidate debate or forum.  —  They came from state Democratic parties and county Democratic committees.
Discussion: Althouse, TIME and The Swamp
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Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
United on immigration, Democrats divide voters
Elizabeth Williamson / Washington Post:
FDA Was Aware of Dangers To Food  —  Outbreaks Were Not Preventable, Officials Say  —  The Food and Drug Administration has known for years about contamination problems at a Georgia peanut butter plant and on California spinach farms that led to disease outbreaks that killed three people …
Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:
Democrats Craft New Tax Rules, New Image  —  Plan Tries to Shield Middle Class From Paying High Rates  —  House Democrats, aiming to seize taxes from Republicans as a political issue, have come up with a plan to shift the burden of the hated alternative minimum tax onto the shoulders of the nation's richest households.
Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:
Spitzer Plans to Introduce Gay Marriage Bill  —  Gov. Eliot Spitzer will introduce a bill in the coming weeks to legalize same-sex marriage in New York, his spokeswoman said Friday, a move that would propel New York to the forefront of one of the most contentious issues in politics.
Jill Lawrence / USA Today:
Candidates hope ideas strike chords  —  Voters getting an early dose of substance  —  WASHINGTON — Barack Obama is unleashing the fine print.  —  In the political hothouses of town meetings and union gatherings, the Democratic presidential candidate has shared his soothing style and intriguing background.
Jonathan Kellerman / Opinion Journal:
Bedlam Revisited  —  Why the Virginia Tech shooter was not committed.  —  I was in graduate school, studying clinical psychology when they began shutting down the asylums.  The place was California, the time was the early 1970s, and "they" were an unprecedented confederation of progressives, libertarians and fiscal conservatives.
Discussion: Dr. Helen
Mark Steyn / Chicago Sun Times:
Let's be realistic about reality  —  Within hours of the Virginia Tech massacre, the New York Times had identified the problem: ''What is needed, urgently, is stronger controls over the lethal weapons that cause such wasteful carnage and such unbearable loss.''
Kagro X / Daily Kos:
Joe Klein, call your editor.  —  Or better yet, Joe Klein's editor, call your columnist.  —  Here's why: … Don't see it yet?  Well, here's what kos actually said: … Once again, we have to play a game of "What's Missing From This Journamalism?"  —  Look carefully.
Discussion: TIME: Swampland and Sirotablog
 
 
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