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10:55 AM ET, May 10, 2007

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Washington Post:
Bush Told War Is Harming The GOP  —  House Republican moderates, in a remarkably blunt White House meeting, warned President Bush this week that his pursuit of the war in Iraq is risking the future of the Republican Party and that he cannot count on GOP support for many more months.
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New York Times:
G.O.P. Moderates Warn Bush Iraq Must Show Gains  —  Moderate Republicans gave President Bush a blunt warning on his Iraq policy at a private White House meeting this week, telling the president that conditions needed to improve markedly by fall or more Republicans would desert him on the war.
Washington Post:
House moves new Iraq funding bill  —  Measure starts cuts to war spending in July  —  May 10.  —  ouse Democrats declared yesterday that they will vote on an Iraq spending bill that could cut funding for the war as early as July, defying a threat from President Bush that he would veto the proposal.
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Nico / Think Progress:
NBC: 11 Republicans Berate Bush Over Iraq In Private White House Meeting
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
War Support Starting To Crumble
Discussion: The Strata-Sphere
Politico.com:   Bush meets with wavering Republicans
Qassim Abdul-Zahra / Associated Press:
Iraqi bill demands U.S. troops withdraw
Associated Press:   Bush would veto Democrats' new Iraq bill
Guardian:
Blair quits as prime minister  —  Matthew Tempest and agencies  —  Tony Blair today announced he was stepping down after 10 years as prime minister and 13 as Labour leader.  —  The prime minister told a crowd of supporters in Trimdon Labour club he would stand down as PM on June 27.
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Yahoo! News: World:
Britain's Blair says he is resigning
Discussion: Redstate and Shakesville
Patrick Wintour / Guardian:
Today, the beginning of the end
Discussion: AMERICAblog
Philip Webster / Times of London:
World tour is PM's way of bidding farewell
Rick Moran / Right Wing Nut House:
FAREWELL AND ADIEU, TONY
Kevin Sullivan / Washington Post:
Britain's Blair Announces His Resignation
Allahpundit / Hot Air:   Blair quits, effective June 27th
Comment is free:   Labour's love lost
Washington Post:
Number of Fired Prosecutors Grows  —  Dismissals Began Earlier Than Justice Dept. Has Said  —  The former U.S. attorney in Kansas City, Mo., Todd P. Graves, said yesterday that he was asked to step down from his job by a senior Justice Department official in January 2006 …
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New York Times:
Gonzales Seems Confident He Will Stay, Officials Say  —  Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales appears increasingly confident that he will survive the crisis over the dismissal of federal prosecutors, as White House aides who view him as a liability see little point in trying to persuade President Bush …
New York Times:
Editorial: U.S. Attorneys, Reloaded
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and TalkLeft
NYT > National:
Giuliani Plans to Publicly Embrace Abortion Rights  —  After months of conflicting signals on abortion, Rudolph W. Giuliani is planning to offer a forthright affirmation of his support for abortion rights in public forums, television appearances and interviews in the coming days …
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ABCNEWS:
Romney's Wife Gave Money to Planned Parenthood  —  Republican Abortion Opponent Accused of Shifting His Views  —  Former Gov. Mitt Romney's wife, Ann, gave an $150 donation to the abortion-rights group Planned Parenthood in 1994, at a time when Romney considered himself effectively "pro-choice," the Romney campaign confirmed today.
Bill Roggio / The Fourth Rail:
The Diyala Salvation Front  —  Tribal leaders in the troubled province organize against al Qaeda  —  Map of southern Diyala.  Click map to view.  —  In March, we noted the successful model of the Anbar Salvation Council will very likely be replicated elsewhere in regions where al Qaeda has established bases of operation.
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Mohammed Fadhil / NY Daily News:
A Baghdad plea: U.S. should stay and fight  —  Be Our Guest  —  I wasn't surprised when I saw Al Qaeda's second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahiri, appear on Al Jazeera to announce America's defeat last week, not long after U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid did.
Discussion: Redstate
Wayne Barrett / Village Voice:
The Yankees' Clean-Up Man  —  Rudy went to bat for the Yanks, and look what he scored.  —  The greatest love affair of Rudy Giuliani's life has become a sordid scandal.  —  His monogamous embrace of the Yankees as mayor was so fervent that when he tried to deliver a West Side stadium …
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Edward Epstein / San Francisco Chronicle:
GOP keeps the heat turned up on Pelosi  —  Speaker's foes likely to sling mud until something sticks  —  (05-10) 04:00 PDT Washington — Firebrand Republicans would have you believe that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi might have engaged in corruption for her husband, tried to grab a luxury …
Discussion: Sister Toldjah
Roxana Tiron / The Hill:
Defense authorization bill fails to address habeas corpus for detainees  —  The new chairman of the House Armed Services Committee dealt a blow to the human-rights community by failing to include provisions to overhaul GOP legislation governing military tribunals in the 2008 defense authorization bill.
 
 
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