Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
6:00 PM ET, November 13, 2007

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
Jennifer Loven / Associated Press:
Bush vetoes health and education bill  —  NEW ALBANY, Ind. - President Bush, escalating his budget battle with Congress, on Tuesday vetoed a spending measure for health and education programs prized by congressional Democrats.  —  He also signed a big increase in the Pentagon's non-war budget although …
RELATED:
New York Times:
Bush Vetoes Major Domestic Spending Measure  —  President Bush on Tuesday vetoed a major spending measure that would have funded education, health care and job training programs, saying it contained money for too many of the special projects known as earmarks.
Anne Flaherty / Associated Press:
Reid calls on Bush to withdraw troops  —  WASHINGTON - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Tuesday that Democrats won't approve more money for the Iraq war this year unless President Bush agrees to begin bringing troops home.  —  By the end of the week, the House and Senate planned to vote …
Peter Baker / Washington Post:
Bush Veto Sets Stage for Budget Battle  —  President Bush vetoed a $606 billion spending bill Tuesday that would have funded education, health and labor programs for the current fiscal year, complaining that it was larded with pork and too expensive as he took aim at a top priority of the new Democratic Congress.
Michael Goldfarb / Weekly Standard:
Reid Playing Hardball?
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Washington Wire:   Veto Marks Shift in Funding Fight
Hindrocket / Power Line:   PRESIDENT VETOES PORK
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Vultures circling in Iowa  —  A key Obama supporter in Iowa, former Democratic Party Chair Gordon Fischer, offered a glimpse into where his campaign sees growth: In scooping up Edwards supporters.  —  "It's going to move much more to a two-person race - Barack Obama and Hillary," …
RELATED:
Jeff Zeleny / The Caucus:
A Not-So-Perfect Picture of Party Unity
Greg Sargent / Election Central:
Edwards Clarifies Comment On Hillary: "I Fully Expect To Support" Dem Nominee
Discussion: The Carpetbagger Report and Salon
Ezra Klein:
His Ideas Are Good, But I Want More Bullet Points  —  So we're back to arguing about John Edwards' plan to strip members of Congress of their health care if they don't pass comprehensive reform.  I'm always astonished at how bizarrely literally pundits act when they approach this idea.
RELATED:
The Fact Hub:
Sen. Edwards Proposes Unconstitutional Law In New Ad  —  Sen. Edwards has a new TV advertisement about health care where he proposes the following law: … The problem is, Sen. Edwards doesn't have the power to take health care away from Congress unilaterally—he'd have to propose a law.
Jonah Goldberg / The Corner:
Say It Enough Times It Must Be True  —  First the Clinton campaign whines that the other candidates were picking on the girl.  Then, standing up to Russert is like standing up to Hitler.  Then Bill Clinton compared Russert to the Swift Boat Vets.  Now the Clinton campaign is warning Wolf Blizter that he better not "pull a Russert."
RELATED:
The Politico:
Democrats remain stalled on Iraq debate  —  As the congressional session lurches toward a close, Democrats are confronting some demoralizing arithmetic on Iraq.  —  The numbers tell a story of political and substantive paralysis more starkly than most members are willing to acknowledge publicly, or perhaps even to themselves.
RELATED:
Brian Faughnan / Weekly Standard:
Dems Fool Netroots: Quietly Fund Iraq While Talking Tough
Discussion: Wake up America
WJXT-TV:
Man Found Dead, Stuck In Cat Door  —  \32-Year-Old Trying To Get In Girlfriend's Home  —  ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. — St. Johns County deputies recently launched an investigation into what they called one of the strangest accidents they've ever seen when a man was found dead after getting stuck in a cat door.
Greg Sargent / Election Central:
Full Video: McCain Says Supporter's "Bitch" Query About Hillary Is "An Excellent Question"  —  Below we noted that a local Fox affiliate had reported on a John McCain event in South Carolina where he'd stood by while one of his supporters called Hillary a "bitch."
RELATED:
The Sandmonkey / Rantings of a Sandmonkey:
Karim Amer is getting tortured in Prison  —  Abdel Karim Soliman, famously now known as Karim Amer, who got jailed for "disdain for religion" and "insulting the president" on his blog, is reportedly getting tortured by the Prison authorities. … I wish I could say I am surprised by this …
Discussion: The Jawa Report
Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:
Turn-Around In Iraq  —  My optimistic military emailer from yesterday, it needs to be said, added this vital caveat: … And the news on that front remains as dire as ever.  That's why I find Glenn Reynolds' view of what's happening in Iraq to be more than typically glib.
Discussion: Instapundit.com and INSTAPUTZ
The Huffington Post:
Laurie David and Gene Karpinski: Did Tim Russert Get the Memo?  —  This past week, NBC completed its Green Is Universal campaign — a week-long effort to educate and engage the public by infusing its programming with environmental themes.  The effort resulted in everything from Matt Lauer reporting …
Discussion: Say Anything and Booman Tribune
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Post Critic Page Apologizes for E-Mail Remarks To Barry Aide  —  A Pulitzer Prize-winning writer for The Washington Post has apologized to D.C. Council member Marion Barry for sending an intemperate e-mail to his spokesman.  —  "It's the stupidest thing I've done in 30 years in journalism," music critic Tim Page said yesterday.
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 6:00 PM ET, November 13, 2007.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 See Also: 
memeorandum: site main
memeorandum River: reverse chronological memeorandum
memeorandum Mobile: for phones
memeorandum Leaderboard: memeorandum's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
memeorandum RSS feed
memeorandum on Mastodon
 
 
 More Items: 
The Corner:
RE: Krugman and Race
Discussion: Opinion Journal
Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
EXPLAINING THE 'SPHERE....LizardBreath asks:
Discussion: The Newshoggers and Unfogged
DownWithTyranny!:
WILL CALIFORNIA DEMOCRATS CENSURE DIANNE FEINSTEIN?
WXIA-TV:
Poll: Obama, Clinton Virtually Tied
Discussion: Open Left
Atrios / Eschaton:
Mortgage Reform and Anti-Predatory Lending Act of 2007
Discussion: Open Left and Firedoglake
The Corner:
Soft Porn at the Met
siena.edu:
2/3 of NYers Oppose Gov's License Proposals - New & Old
Michael Yon / Online Magazine:
A Consumer Reports: Geared for Combat II
 Earlier Items: 
Rasmussen Reports:
Just 25% Believe Democratic Candidates Are Piling On Hillary
Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
« |  MAIN  —  FRED THOMPSON SPOKE AT THE CITADEL JUST NOW …
Guardian:
Royal insult echoes persecution of Christ, says Venezuelan leader
Robert Pear / New York Times:
One Lawmaker's Waste Is Another's Namesake
USA Today:
A new page in O'Connors' love story
Kevin J. Martin / New York Times:
The Daily Show  —  IN many towns and cities, the newspaper is an endangered species.
Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Court takes no action on gun case