memeorandum: Triumphant Goldilocks — The big theme in today's Dow crossing … (Larry Kudlow/The Corner)

9:05 AM ET, July 18, 2007

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Live-Blogging The Senate Iraq Filibuster — [ThinkProgress is at the Capitol building, live-blogging the all-night conservative filibuster of Iraq withdrawal legislation.] — 12:27 AM: 1,000 people gathered outside the Capitol tonight for a rally and candlelight vigil.

Discussion: Firedoglake, BobGeiger.com, Daily Kos, Open Left, Jules Crittenden, Norwegianity, TalkLeft, Pam's House Blend and Hullabaloo

Washington Post:

Senators Pull All-Nighter For Debate On Iraq War — GOP Denounces Effort As Political Theatrics — Democrats rolled out cots and ordered pizzas as they settled in for a marathon Senate debate on Iraq last night that featured numerous speeches but little chance of getting any closer to resolving the stalemate over how to end the war.

Discussion: Bark Bark Woof Woof, Firedoglake, AMERICAblog and The Democratic Daily

Carl Hulse / New York Times:

Democrats Lack Support to Force Vote on Pullout — A handful of Republicans who have distanced themselves from President Bush on the war in Iraq refused Tuesday to back a plan to withdraw American troops from the conflict, leaving Senate Democrats short of the support needed to force a vote on their proposal.

Discussion: Brilliant at Breakfast, The Crone Speaks, Watching Those We Chose and Sister Toldjah

Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:

McClatchy on why... FILIBUSTER. IT WON'T BITE. — McClatchy on why tonight's filibuster isn't a filibuster ... Here's another beaut just out from the AP in which David Espo describes tonight's events but refuses to use the word 'filibuster' until he gets around to describing …

Discussion: Capitol Briefing, McClatchy Washington Bureau and Reuters

Democrats.senate.gov:

Reid: Democrats Heed Call Of American People, Continue Fight To Change Course In Iraq — Washington, D.C.—Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid spoke Tuesday night at an event at which Democratic Senators and Congressmen, Iraq war veterans, military families, and concerned citizens called …

Discussion: Taylor Marsh

Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Republicans Call Reid's Bluff

Discussion: Associated Press and Blue Crab Boulevard

Harold Meyerson / Washington Post:
Spineless Sages — Top GOP Senators Only Talk Against the War

Discussion: Daily Kos

Michelle Malkin:
The Senate slumber party-Open thread Update: 10:10pm Stunts …

Discussion: Gateway Pundit and Don Surber

Karina / The Gavel:
Candlelight Call to Action

Discussion: NonParty Politics and BobGeiger.com

Jay Newton-Small / Time:
Do the Dems Want to Win on Iraq?

Discussion: Right Wing Nut House, The Poor Man Institute and TIME: Swampland

Mike Allen / The Politico:
A look inside the war rooms on the war

Discussion: Blogcritics Section, Redstate, Maggie's Farm and Hot Air

Media Matters for America:
On Good Morning America, Sawyer falsely claimed Reid "vows to filibuster"

Discussion: Crooks and Liars, Firedoglake, Big Brass Blog, Daily Kos, The Carpetbagger Report, The Agonist, Fact-esque and Talking Points Memo

Michael Abramowitz / Washington Post:

Intelligence Puts Rationale For War on Shakier Ground — The White House faced fresh political peril yesterday in the form of a new intelligence assessment that raised sharp questions about the success of its counterterrorism strategy and judgment in making Iraq the focus of that effort.

Discussion: Prairie Weather, Watching Those We Chose, the talking dog and MSNBC

John Bresnahan / The Politico:

GOP establishment rallies around Bush — The Republican establishment is rallying to the defense of President Bush and his controversial war strategy, with some GOP members of Congress cherry-picking intelligence about a resurgent Al Qaeda to buy at least two more months for Bush's Iraq strategy.

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, No More Mister Nice Blog, New York Times, The Gun Toting Liberal™, State of the Day, Daily Kos, Confederate Yankee, AMERICAblog and The Blotter

Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
The National Intelligence Estimate

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, New York Times, Kiko's House and News Hounds

Fred Kaplan / Slate:
Read It and Weep — EVEN BUSH'S INTELLIGENCE REPORT SAYS THE WAR …

Discussion: Crooks and Liars and Informed Comment

New York Times:
Bush Aides See Failure in Fight With Al Qaeda in Pakistan

Discussion: Washington Post, All Spin Zone, Brilliant at Breakfast, Watching Those We Chose, Crooks and Liars and Salon

The Corner:
Statesman McCain — From the senator floor a few ago:

Discussion: Captain's Quarters, Obsidian Wings, Dr. Sanity and Blogs for Bush

Scott Shane / New York Times:
Six Years Later, the Same Threat

Discussion: AMERICAblog

ESPN:

Falcons' Vick indicted by grand jury in dogfighting probe — Michael Vick has been indicted by a federal grand jury in connection with the dogfighting probe of his property in Virginia. — The indictment alleges that Vick and his co-defendants began sponsoring dogfighting in early 2001 …

Discussion: Captain's Quarters, The Reaction, Scared Monkeys, The Agitator, The Daily Whim and Shakesville

Steve Verdon / Outside The Beltway: Michael Vick Indicted on Charges of Dog Fighting

The Smoking Gun:
Michael Vick Indicted

Discussion: Unqualified Offerings

CBS News:
Michael Vick Indicted By Grand Jury

Discussion: protein wisdom and ESPN

Frederic J. Frommer / Associated Press:

Lawmaker admits error in Nazi reference — WASHINGTON - The nation's first Muslim congressman said Tuesday that he erred in comparing the Bush administration's response to Sept. 11 to an event that led to Adolf Hitler's consolidation of power in Nazi Germany.

Discussion: Washington Times, Ed Driscoll.com and Hot Air

Jackie Kucinich / The Hill:
Reps. Cantor, Wamp blast Ellison for 9/11 comments

Discussion: Minneapolis Star Tribune, Power Line and Reason Magazine

Rebecca Keeble / NEWS.com.au:

Gore's message loses bite — Decrease Increase - — Submit comment: — ONLY one week after Live Earth, Al Gore's green credentials slipped while hosting his daughter's wedding in Beverly Hills. — Gore and his guests at the weekend ceremony dined on Chilean sea bass - arguably one of the world's most threatened fish species.

Discussion: small dead animals, TigerHawk, Instapundit.com, Roger L. Simon and Blue Crab Boulevard

Washington Post:

Papers Detail Industry's Role in Cheney's Energy Report — At 10 a.m. on April 4, 2001, representatives of 13 environmental groups were brought into the Old Executive Office Building for a long-anticipated meeting. Since late January, a task force headed by Vice President Cheney …

Aaron Blake / The Hill:

Obama vows to look into High Court nominees' 'hearts' — Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) sent a strong signal Tuesday that he would appoint pro-abortion rights Supreme Court justices but stopped short of endorsing a litmus test. — After a speech heavily critical of the new Supreme Court …

Discussion: Right Wing News and Althouse

Mark Murray / MSNBC:
OBAMA ON JUDGES, SUPREME COURT

Discussion: New York Times and Obama HQ

Michael A. Fletcher / Washington Post:

White House Had Drug Officials Appear With GOP Candidates — White House officials arranged for top officials at the Office of National Drug Control Policy to help as many as 18 vulnerable Republican congressmen by making appearances and sometimes announcing new federal grants …

Discussion: TIME: Swampland and TBogg

Larry Kudlow / The Corner:

Triumphant Goldilocks — The big theme in today's Dow crossing the 14,000 threshold for the first time is one of unprecedented global economic growth and a worldwide stock market boom. — Simply put, this is the greatest global stock market boom in history.

Discussion: PSoTD, PoliPundit.com and Lawyers, Guns and Money

Richard Beeston / Times of London:

Security services 'foil plot to kill Berezovsky at the London Hilton' — Boris Berezovsky fled Britain three weeks ago on the advice of Scotland Yard, amid reports that he was the target of an assassination attempt by a suspected Russian hitman. — The exiled tycoon and fierce critic …

Discussion: Captain's Quarters

CNN:

YouTube politics: Candidates lose control — WASHINGTON (CNN) — It was one of the most talked about moments in the 2006 campaign: "Lets give a welcome to Macaca, here. Welcome to America and the real world of Virginia." — That was then-Virginia Republican Sen. George Allen's controversial remark …