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6:00 PM ET, August 1, 2008

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John Bresnahan / The Crypt's Blogs:
House Dems turn out the lights but GOP keeps talking  —  Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and the Democrats adjourned the House, turned off the lights and killed the microphones, but Republicans are still on the floor talking gas prices.  —  Minority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) …
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Edward Epstein / CQ.com:
House Adjourns, But Republicans Linger to Bash Democrats on Energy  —  The C-SPAN cameras were gone and the microphones were off, but that didn't stop a small group of Republicans from taking over the floor after the House adjourned for five weeks to attack Democrats for leaving town without doing something to lower gas prices.
Ben Pershing / Capitol Briefing:
Bizarre Scene on the House Floor  —  UPDATE 5:10 PM: A group of Republican lawmakers just held a press conference off the floor, where cameras could capture their words for posterity, during which they reiterated their desire for a vote on opening up more land for oil drilling.
John Bresnahan / The Crypt's Blogs:
Dems turn out the lights but GOP won't go home Part II
Mark Hemingway / The Corner:
The Guerilla Congress  —  I just got back a short while ago …
Washington Wire:   House Republicans Stage Floor Protest Over Summer Recess
Michelle Malkin:
Floor revolt: No vacation for House Republicans; GOP calls …
Discussion: Don Surber
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Vital unresolved anthrax questions and ABC News  —  The FBI's lead suspect in the September, 2001 anthrax attacks — Bruce E. Ivins — died Tuesday night, apparently by suicide, just as the Justice Department was about to charge him with responsibility for the attacks.
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David Willman / Los Angeles Times:
Apparent suicide in anthrax case  —  Bruce E. Ivins, a scientist who helped the FBI investigate the 2001 mail attacks, was about to face charges.  —  A top government scientist who helped the FBI analyze samples from the 2001 anthrax attacks has died in Maryland from an apparent suicide …
Michelle Malkin:
The anthrax case and the suicide
Discussion: The Jawa Report
Amy Chozick / Wall Street Journal:
Too Fit to Be President?  —  Facing an Overweight Electorate, Barack Obama Might Find Low Body Fat a Drawback  —  Speaking to donors at a San Diego fund-raiser last month, Barack Obama reassured the crowd that he wouldn't give in to Republican tactics to throw his candidacy off track.
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Wall Street Journal:
Wal-Mart Warns of Democratic Win  —  Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is mobilizing its store managers and department supervisors around the country to warn that if Democrats win power in November, they'll likely change federal law to make it easier for workers to unionize companies — including Wal-Mart.
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MSNBC:
Wal-Mart mobilizes against Democrats: report
Discussion: Reuters
Adam Smith / The Buzz:
Obama responds to race card charge  —  In an interview with the St. Pete Times and Bay News 9 for Political Connections, Barack Obama brushed off the charge from the John McCain campaign that he was injecting race into the campaign:  —  “I was in union, Missouri which is 98 percent white …
Discussion: The Swamp and Ben Smith's Blogs
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Mark Murray / MSNBC:
OBAMA, INTERRUPTED  —  From NBC/NJ's Mike Memoli and NBC's Lauren Appelbaum  —  ST. PETERSBURG, FL — About seven minutes into his remarks here, Obama was interrupted by a handful of African-American demonstrators, who stood up in the last row of a section of bleachers behind him and held …
Discussion: The New Republic, The Trail and Hot Air
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Marc Ambinder:
Obama Heckled in FL
John McCormick / The Swamp:
Barack Obama interrupted by protesters
Discussion: TalkLeft
Mark Mooney / ABCNEWS:
Obama Aide Concedes ‘Dollar Bill’ Remark Referred to His Race  —  Obama Strategist Calls McCain's Attack Ad Insulting; McCain Camp Defends It  —  Sen. Barack Obama's chief strategist conceded that the Democratic presidential candidate was referring to his race when he said Republicans …
Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Race Tied at 44%  —  Registered voters evenly split in their support for Obama versus McCain  —  PRINCETON, NJ — According to Gallup Poll Daily tracking from July 29-31, John McCain and Barack Obama are now tied at 44% in the preferences of national registered voters.
Michael Saul / NY Daily News:
Hil, no!  Don't nominate me  —  Hillary Clinton has decided against being nominated for President at the Democrats' Denver convention, but many of her more die-hard partisans may vote for her anyway.  —  A source close to the New York senator confirmed she won't file a formal request …
John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Blooper: Hannity punks himself on anti-McCain Campain ad.  —  Friday bloopers!  —  Sean Hannity was in fine form last night as he had his fresh new Obama-GOP-attack-talking points ready to go.  (I don't think Scott McClellan passed them off this time.)  He wanted his audience …
Matthew Yglesias:
Slate Revisited  —  Enough people in the business have gotten in touch with me in a hurry to dispute the idea that Slate is a center-right publication that I'm starting to have some doubts.  And I'll admit that while I look at Slate all the time, I'm not a particularly thorough reader …
Discussion: The Daily Dish
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Can This Planet Be Saved?  —  Recently the Web site The Politico asked Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the House, why she was blocking attempts to tack offshore drilling amendments onto appropriations bills.  “I'm trying to save the planet; I'm trying to save the planet,” she replied.  —  I'm glad to hear it.
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Mattathias Schwartz / New York Times:
Malwebolence  —  One afternoon in the spring of 2006, for reasons unknown to those who knew him, Mitchell Henderson, a seventh grader from Rochester, Minn., took a .22-caliber rifle down from a shelf in his parents' bedroom closet and shot himself in the head.
Discussion: Althouse and Shakesville
Hindrocket / Power Line:
“THE ONE”  —  Today the McCain campaign continued to skewer Barack Obama for his pomposity and self-regard with a video called “The One.”  Here it is:  —  It's amusing, and some people will think it's highly effective.  I'm not so sure this line of attack is a good idea, however.
 
 
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CNN:
Independent: Negative ads risky for McCain
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
HOW IT WORKS  —  Let's see how this works.  McCain runs …
Discussion: ATTACKERMAN
Dr. Rusty Shackleford / The Jawa Report:
Report: Al Qaeda #2 Ayman al-Zawahiri Dead!?!
Emptywheel:
Scott McClellan Dismantles Cheney's Plame Firewall
Laurence Lowe / The New Republic:
The Post-Rove Guru  —  How the Republican Party stopped dreaming …
Ali / Think Progress:
McCain's blogger rips bloggers 'sitting in mother's basement …
Marc Ambinder:
Arizona News Station Airs Spot Questioning McCain's Chances In AZ
Ben / Think Progress:
Judge on Rove's citizen arrest: 'It's about time.'
 Earlier Items: 
Ed Hornick / CNN:
Poll: Country's mood at historic low
Discussion: Donklephant
Jennifer Parker / Political Radar:
Website Suggests Obama-Bayh Ticket
John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
McCain tries to scrub his website: They called him A Political Celebrity
Discussion: The Jed Report
Matthew Yglesias:
Rachel Maddow  —  She's good:  —  So there are all these liberals in the country.
Matthew L. Wald / New York Times:
2 Reports Raise Hopes on Energy
Scott Wong / Arizona Republic:
Fight focuses on affirmative action in Ariz.
Mike Allen / The Politico:
Obama's ‘emergency’ economic plan
Robert G. Kaiser / Washington Post:
The Curious Mind of John McCain