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7:50 AM ET, July 18, 2007

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Think Progress:
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Michelle Malkin:
The Senate slumber party-Open thread Update: 10:10pm Stunts and snoozes...now Lieberman speaks Update: Dems in the majority whine, "Let us vote"...11:54pm Menendez screams about "tyranny of the minority;" mocking Democrat placards Update: 12:30am Reid wants an 11:00am cloture vote …
Discussion: Don Surber
Harold Meyerson / Washington Post:
Spineless Sages  —  Top GOP Senators Only Talk Against the War  —  Anyone searching for the highest forms of invertebrate life need look no further than the floor of the U.S. Senate last week and this.  These spineless specimens go by various names — Republican moderates …
Discussion: Daily Kos
Karina / The Gavel:   Candlelight Call to Action
Democrats.senate.gov:
Reid: Democrats Heed Call Of American People, Continue Fight …
Discussion: Taylor Marsh
Bob Geiger:   Random Notes From The Senate All-Nighter
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 …
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Steve Verdon / Outside The Beltway:   Michael Vick Indicted on Charges of Dog Fighting
CBS News:
Michael Vick Indicted By Grand Jury
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The Smoking Gun:
Michael Vick Indicted
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ABCNEWS:
NFL Star Sacked in Dogfight Probe
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.
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 …
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: TBogg
David Corn / Washington Post:
Why Bush Is A Loser  —  Who knew Bill Kristol had such a flair for satire?  —  How else to read his piece for Outlook on Sunday, in which he declared, "George W. Bush's presidency will probably be a successful one"?  Surely Kristol, the No. 1 cheerleader for the Iraq war, was mocking himself …
Satyam / Think Progress:
ABC goes 'Inside the Surge.'  —  Last night, ABC's Nightline aired a segment capturing a rare view from the ground of the fighting that mires U.S. troops in Baghdad.  Through the lens of an embedded reporter, ABC followed several U.S. soldiers for two weeks in May, watching …
San Diego Union-Tribune:
Imprisoned Cunningham outlines depths of corruption to FBI  —  WASHINGTON - In two days of prison interviews with federal agents this year, disgraced former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham described a level of corruption on his part more extensive than previously known and dealt …
Discussion: TPMmuckraker and Obsidian Wings
 
 
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