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Hot Headlines, October 2006

Oct. 14
• McClatchy: Rep. Curt Weldon Now Under FBI Investigation
• Report Says Nonprofits Sold Influence to Abramoff; Prominent Republican Grover Norquist "appear[s] to have perpetrated a fraud" on taxpayers by selling clout to lobbyist
Rep. Ney To Resign in Next Few Weeks | Five Scandals that Could Put Republicans in Jail | Abramoff Figure Rep. Ney to Plead Guilty | Ney's So-called Drinking Problem Could Cut His Jail Time | When Wingnuts Whine: Congressman Charles Taylor Demands Retraction From WSJ | Kerry Calls Out GOP for Lying About Foley, Iraq | New Evidence Links Abramoff, Doolittle | FL-16: Dems argue election-day notices are illegal | Extreme Chrisitian Right: Cogs In The Machine | GOP: Out, Out, Damn Ney | Sen. Conrad Burns (R-MT) has earmarked $8 million | OR-Gov: Harvest of Shame--Welcome to Saxton-ville | Senate Report Slams Charities for Cheating
• It Matches Their Dictator! U.S.: Test Points to Midget-sized North Korea Nuke Blast
• Report: Iraq Study Group Will Rule Out Victory In Iraq, Propose Redeployment
UK general: our troops worsen problems in Iraq, so it is time to get out | Rep. Ike Skelton lays into Bush Administration Iraq blunders | By the way, Iraq is still a qWagmire | Army Chief: We Have Sufficient Troops To Fight North Korea | Rumsfeld Allies Launch Smear Campaign Against NATO General | In the shadow of North Korea, a horrific week in Iraq | Hey, look -- James K Baker III is a terrorist appeaser, too! | 14 more tortured bodies found around Baghdad | "Victory" and "Defeat" In Iraq
• Evidence Of George Felix Allen Jr. Court Appearance Surfaces -- From Around Time He Allegedly Stuffed Deer head In Black Family Mailbox
• Another Lawmaker, Rep. Jim Kolbe, Is Being Probed For Page Relations
Santorum Gets Upset During Debate: "What Do You Expect From Me?" | UK general: our troops worsen problems in Iraq, so it is time to get out | Bwaah! Bush Boy Wields "U Word" More Freely as His Frustration Rises and His Influence Ebbs | You want flag desecration, Joe Republican? | In NH, Kerry throws down gauntlet, blasts Bush bungling on Iraq | A House majority for Democrats will gain voice and leverage, the clear power to block what remains of Bush's right-wing agenda, and control over government oversight and investigative initiatives | Bush hides from voters: campaign appearances don't match 2002 pace | The Fighting Dems and the Coming Triumph of the JFK Democrats | Bush increasingly unhinged, proclaims reality "unacceptable" | DeWine Fails to Defuse Issue of His Lousy Senate Attendance Record | Gary Studds, First Openly Gay Congressman, Dies | Colorado Group: God, Moses Oppose State Minimum Wage Increase | TX-22: Dems Have Clear Shot at DeLay House Seat | National GOP Won't Give Santorum Money
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- Army Big Brother Unit Targets Bloggers
FOLEYGATE -- "The story is starting to look more and more like a massive cover-up involving a Congressman whose sole virtue was that raised big dollars" | Bush suddenly started avoiding Foley in Sept. 2004, after months of using Foley to help Bush’s reelection campaign. What did Bush find out? | Former Foley Chief of Staff testifies he told Hastert's office about e-mails in 2002 or 2003 | The art of understatement: Key Republican says GOP mishandled Foley matter | Foley ex-staffer Kirk Fordham testifies to panel | Shimkus Says GOP Mishandled Page Scandal | Foley Wrote To Jeb Bush In 2004: "Have I Done Something To Offend The White House...I Am Always Getting The Shaft" | Whatever Happened to Hastert's Page Probe?
HOT POLITICS -- Wedge Issue; Differences in Opinion on Homosexuality Threaten to Split the Republican Party | CA-4, CA-11: Activists are flooding into the districts of Reps. Pombo and Doolittle on behalf of Democratic challengers, making the races more competitive | Video: How "liberal" became a dirty word in politics | ID-01: Larry Grant Surging | Bush said to have no plan if GOP loses | CT-04: Is Chris Shays Losing It? | GOP Rep. Bass Caught Slamming Rep. Bernie Sanders: "It's Gonna Be Nice Not Having Hugo Chavez" | Feeney (R-FL) Campaign Scrubs "Crazy Clint Curtis" Blog; Main Smear Website Remains, But Blog Featuring Unsubstantiated Attacks, Lies – Initially Posted Without Paid-for-by-Feeney Disclaimer – Now Removed, Redirected | A journey through the mind of contemporary conservatism: Clutching our values aboard the death train of empire | Watch Rick Santorum's crookedest ad ever | Post Foleygate Polls Have Repubs Grasping Mushroom Clouds | What former Virginia governor Mark Warner's surprising withdrawal means for Hillary, Edwards and the rest of the Dems vying for the Oval Office in 2008 | VP rips "Dean Dems," props Lieberman | Bush: "We live in a global world"; heckled | Krugman: Republican majority to end on Election Day | Florida GOP governor candidate Charlie Crist "outed" | House Republicans pull the plug on efforts to knock of four Democratic incumbents | In Key Races, Democrats Look at Rivals' Personal Lives
WAR CRIMES -- Guantanamo detainees go to Afghanistan | Marine Sergeant Reports Detainee Abuse At Guantanamo Bay
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- Book confirms Powell just followed Bush Regime orders | North Korea Blame Game? Bring It On | N Korea threatens war against US
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- Michelangelo Signorile: The media should have outed Foley | Must-see TV! Part 2 of Keith Olbermann's preview of a book by a religious conservative ex-Bushco insider who blows the whistle on what they really think of the religious right | Rep. Shelley Moore Capito was left in the dark about Foley's emails | Your Liberal Media, Stupid Squared Edition | Latest on Air America Radio: files for bankruptcy, reorganizing finances, will stay on air | Rock-ribbed GOP-aligned paper in Kansas endorses slew of Democrats, declares GOP agenda "adds up to priorities that have nothing to do with the Republican Party I once knew" | Media Matters mashes ABC' The Note | Air America files for bankruptcy | AP, NBC dutifully repeated Bush's misleading claim that Clinton's North Korea policy "didn't work," ignored that it halted plutonium production
FOX WATCH -- 10,000 People Demand Chris Wallace Ask Rice About The USS Cole | World's Worst: FOX News Smears Ted Turner | There he goes again! Bill O'Reilly says progressives want no more Christmas | Bill O'Reilly smears Nancy Pelosi
$MIRKONOMICS -- Nobel Economists: Republicans Wrong on Minimum Wage | WSJ: Democratic Wins In Midterm Elections May Boost Economy
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Wal-Mart Forced To Pay $78 Million To Workers | Nobel Prize goes to microloan whiz | FCC delays ATT/Bell merger vote again | By approving the merger between AT&T and BellSouth unconditionally, the Bush administration has again abdicated responsibility for protecting consumers when huge companies combine | Wal-Mart loses missed breaks suit
ELECTION THEFTS -- Some States Making It Harder to Vote
OH, GOD! -- The Sectarian Right and the GOP: Grab the Popcorn! | Bush Administration officials called their conservative Christian allies "boorish" and "nuts" | Is a new American Age of Reason in the offing?
MORALITY MORONICS -- Reality Show Contestant Backed By DeLay For Her "Good American Values" Quits Show, Files For Divorce; Hubby Watched Porn With Kids Around | More: Sara Evans' Porn-Addicted Husband Tried To Run For Congress As Republican
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Alaska tax-exempt group exposed as a front for oil giants | Oil prices drop as Saudis refuse to cut production. Now why is that?
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Drug Dealers -- Big Tobacco -- Fight Ballot Measures
TRASHING NATURE -- REPORT: The Cost of Ignoring Climate Change Is $20 Trillion A Year
GAY IN AMERICA -- As gay marriage proponents mobilize, bans less likely | Conservative group alleges gay GOP is really network of undercover liberals | The Nation: Gay Republican purge is coming | Okay, there is one thing to like about Condi Rice: she talks up gay man's mother in law in front of Laura Bush at official ceremony

Oct. 13
• Report Says Nonprofits Sold Influence to Abramoff; Prominent Republican Grover Norquist "appear[s] to have perpetrated a fraud" on taxpayers by selling clout to lobbyist
Jack Abramoff's Billing Records Detail Repeated Contacts With Rep. Richard Pombo (R-CA), Contrary to Pombo's Repeated Whining Denials | Feds Want 3 Years for Convicted WH Official David Safavian | Abramoff Figure Rep. Ney to Plead Guilty | Hastert-"Duping" Evangelist Lists GOP Bona Fides | Unwilling To Investigate Bush Administration, Congress Returns To Clinton | Taking Heat for North Korea Errors, GOP Says: Probe Clinton Official! | Prosecutors: White House, NSA staff got fake diplomas | Senate Report Slams Charities for Cheating
• Roll Call: Congress Members "furious" at FBI for "blackout" of 2001 anthrax attacks probe
Rice still denies Tenet claims, but few believe her
• Biggest. Turdblossom! Blunder!! Ever!!! Mark Foley Wanted Out of FL House Race; Rove Strong-armed Foley Into Staying, Running
House ethics committee bearing down on 3 Hastert aides | Panel Hears From Page Probe Witness Kirk Fordham | Former Foley Aide Testifies He Told Hastert's Office About Foley Early As 2002 | Rep. Shelley Moore Capito was left in the dark about Foley's emails | Former Foley Chief of Staff testifies he told Hastert's office about e-mails in 2002 or 2003 | Evangelist: Hastert Promised Me"In One Week, He Will Be Stepping Down" | MSNBC questions Rep. Kolbe camping trip with pages | Foleygate: Speaker Said, They Said | Whatever Happened to Hastert's Page Probe?
• Miserable Failure: Bush Occupation Forces Shutting Down Iraqi Police Training Center
• Report: Iraq Study Group Will Rule Out Victory In Iraq, Propose Redeployment
Iraq victory ruled out by Baker panel | UK general: our troops worsen problems in Iraq, so it is time to get out | 75 more corpses found in Baghdad | Top Ten GOP Excuses Regarding the Iraq Casualty Estimates | "Victory" and "Defeat" In Iraq | 14 more tortured bodies found around Baghdad | Hey, look -- James K Baker III is a terrorist appeaser, too!
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- FReepers' Smearboat hits a reef as Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) leads reactionary GOP challenger by nearly 30 points | Sen. Allen's Advisors Tell Him To "Shut Up" For Rest Of Campaign | Blockbuster poll about to be released: Dems have huge House lead | Panel Questions Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, Republican member of page board | Bwaah! Bush Boy Wields "U Word" More Freely as His Frustration Rises and His Influence Ebbs | UK general: our troops worsen problems in Iraq, so it is time to get out | Santorum Gets Upset During Debate: "What Do You Expect From Me?" | More From Gallup: Religious Voters Abandoning GOP In Droves | Gröpenführerflaschenbacken: "Four More Years! Four More Years!" | No 2008 White House Run for Ex-VA Guv Mark Warner | Post-Mark-Warner speculation begins; who will be the nominee in 2008? | Edwards seen tied with Clinton for 2008 | WA-08: CQ uprates race to tossup status | MD-Sen: "The standard bearer of these convictions is George W. Bush" | In Key Races, Democrats Look at Rivals' Personal Lives | House Republicans pull the plug on efforts to knock of four Democratic incumbents | Florida GOP governor candidate Charlie Crist "outed" | Krugman: Republican majority to end on Election Day | Bush: "We live in a global world"; heckled | VP rips "Dean Dems," props Lieberman | What former Virginia governor Mark Warner's surprising withdrawal means for Hillary, Edwards and the rest of the Dems vying for the Oval Office in 2008 | Post Foleygate Polls Have Repubs Grasping Mushroom Clouds | Watch Rick Santorum's crookedest ad ever | A journey through the mind of contemporary conservatism: Clutching our values aboard the death train of empire | Feeney (R-FL) Campaign Scrubs "Crazy Clint Curtis" Blog; Main Smear Website Remains, But Blog Featuring Unsubstantiated Attacks, Lies – Initially Posted Without Paid-for-by-Feeney Disclaimer – Now Removed, Redirected
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- It has been obvious for quite some time, and certainly since the Schiavo travesty, that the Bush-led Republican Party is the very antithesis of individual liberty and a limited federal government
WAR CRIMES -- Leaking like a sieve about torture: Former CIA director Porter Goss may have been responsible for tipping off journalists to the agency's secret rendition program
FAULTY INTELLIGENCE -- Recent Republican Intelligence Committee report plays politics with North Korea | Moonie Times gets leak claiming intelligence screwed up assessment of North Korea -- but is it really revenge aimed at a Cheney critic?
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- Bush in 2004 vowed to contain N. Korea | Corn: Who the heck is running Afghan policy? | N Korea threatens war against US | North Korea Blame Game? Bring It On
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- Phil Angelides slams NBC, calls for equal time after Leno hosts Gröpenführer | Must-see TV! Part 2 of Keith Olbermann's preview of a book by a religious conservative ex-Bushco insider who blows the whistle on what they really think of the religious right | Jon Stewart on The Power of the Photo-Op Backdrop | Times Herald-Record business editor announces he why will not vote (as he always has) Republican in the fall | The New Beltway Insider Media Conventional Wisdom: Foley Doesn't Matter, Iraq Does | Whiner: James Dobson baselessly claimed Media Matters spun his Foleygate comments | AP, NBC dutifully repeated Bush's misleading claim that Clinton's North Korea policy "didn't work," ignored that it halted plutonium production
FOX WATCH -- O'Reilly admitted he mislabeled the Chicago Tribune as a liberal paper in "Loofah Warrior", as Media Matters noted
$MIRKONOMICS -- US trade deficit hits record high | WSJ: Democratic Wins In Midterm Elections May Boost Economy
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Wal-Mart loses missed breaks suit | By approving the merger between AT&T and BellSouth unconditionally, the Bush administration has again abdicated responsibility for protecting consumers when huge companies combine
ELECTION THEFTS -- Brad Blog: Voter fraud report buried | Open Letter Sent to States Urging Emergency Paper Ballot Plans and Procedures for November Election | Some States Making It Harder to Vote
OH, GOD! -- Bush Administration officials called their conservative Christian allies "boorish" and "nuts"
RACISM IN THE USA -- Minuteman Founder Jim Gilchrist Storms Off Democracy Now!
GAY IN AMERICA -- Okay, there is one thing to like about Condi Rice: she talks up gay man's mother in law in front of Laura Bush at official ceremony | The Nation: Gay Republican purge is coming | Conservative group alleges gay GOP is really network of undercover liberals

Oct. 12
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- Report: GOP Rep. Brian Bilbray (CA-stole 50) being investigated by grand jury | Specter fesses up: FBI is investigating one of his aides | Sun Myung Moon, Kim Jong-Il, North Korea, Bush LXI and Bush LXIII: Six years ago, Robert Parry spelled it all out | Your Tax Dollars At Work: Ex-ATF Chief Had Staff Give His Son Homework Aid | Federal aid programs designed to help New York recover from the 9/11 terrorist attacks at a cost of $21.4 billion were overrun with "rampant waste, fraud and abuse" | Oops! RNC Accidentally Leaks Donor List To NY Paper | Bush/DeLay/Ken Lay pal launches negative ads barrage | AP Drops a Bomb-o on CA's Pombo | Chris Shays uses Foleygate to take a cheap swipe at Ted Kennedy | For GOP Rep, Earmarks and Business Come Together | Ex-U.S. attorney and GOP up-and-comer pleads guilty for role in e-mail spam scam | Caught lying! GOP Rep. fabricates quote in TV ad | USA Today: Specter Staffer under Investigation | GOP disavows "panda & prostitutes" ad
FOLEYGATE -- Michigan Daily: Former Page Says Foley Had "Inappropriate Contact" With Page On House Floor | ABC: Foley paid visit to Page dorm in 2000 and 2002 or 2003 | A Special Media Matters for America Report: Debunking the Foley Myth Machine | Updated! Foley cover-up timeline | More Calling on Hastert to Step Down | Why did sources out Foley? Clue: it was not partisan revenge | ABC: Ex-aide will testify Foley tried to enter page dorm | Two sources for Foley messages clarify motives:it was concern for Hill pages, not politics | The Radioactivity Just Keeps On Radiating: Scandal Sidelines Hastert, Reynolds | Foley Case Snags Deborah Pryce, Incumbent in Ohio Race for House Seat | GOP Rep. Chris Shays (R-CT): Molesting kids isn't so bad as long as you don't kill 'em | Foley Was "Honorary" Roadie For Allman Brothers Band | MSNBC: Does the buck stop with Hastert, or just his staff? | Hastert Duped By PR-Hungry Evangelist | Foleys Bergère: Political entertainment al'Americain | Hastert Vigil: House Leadership Still Getting Along As Well As Ever (Not) | Harper's: Foley Story Is Not Electioneering; E-mails Circulated Months Ago
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- Must-see TV! Keith Olbermann: Why does habeas corpus hate America? | Glenn Greenwald has some troubling questions about the first treason indictment in 50 years
HOT POLITICS -- Radioactive! GOP Candidates Cancel Events With Hastert | David Corn: Democrats Haven't Won Yet | Poll: NJ Senate Race Still Tight | Bush, Hastert to Appear at Fundraiser for Reps. David McSweeney and Peter Roskam | Gröpenführer distances self from Chimpenführer: "To Link Me To George Bush Is Like Linking Me To An Oscar...It's Ridiculous" | WA-08: Toss Up | Grab the popcorn! Ethics Committee hones in on Hastert and staff | Bush admits the phrase "Cut and run" is a consequence of his less "sophisticated vocabulary" | Vermont Congressman Bernie Sanders Leads Run for Senate | McCain latest fundraising victim of Foley scandal | CT-Sen: The sky isn't falling | Evans-Novak Report weighs in on the Foley fallout -- and it's all bad for the GOP in election season | Southern fallout from the Foley scandal | Katherine Harris Trailing Sen. Nelson Big Time: 61% To 33% | Rep. Tom Reynolds is running scared, as the Capitol Hill sex scandal threatens to topple the four-term incumbent -- and his plans to keep a GOP grip on the House | GOP-friendly Gallup: Democrats Open Huge Lead in Election Outlook | Voter Excitement Level Highest in Years | NE Republican Making Do Without GOP Cash | RI-Sen, Gov: latest Rasmussen | New Lamont Ad Uses Lieberman To Challenge Lieberman | Pages Who Exposed Foley: "It Was In The Best Interests Of Kids"
QWAGMIRE -- Army to keep troop levels in Iraq steady through 2010 | Unbelievable! Dumbest president ever? At hastily-called news conference, Bush claims that Iraqis"society... so wants to be free that they’re willing to -- you know, that there's a level of violence that they tolerate" | Bush and His Dangerous Delusions Threaten Global Stability | At Least 40 US Troops Killed In Iraq So Far This Month | Iraqi violent deaths estimated at 654,000 since US invasion; US deaths continue to rise | Massive fire at US ammo base triggered by insurgent mortar round | Kerry voices deep regret for voting for Iraq war | 11 killed in raid on new Iraq TV station | An NBC correspondent in Iraq takes aim at the Tinkerbell school of war apologists | 110 bodies found in Baghdad in last 24 hours | Iraq Is 22 Times More Violent Than Washington DC | A Way Out of Iraq? Not Until the Bush Cadre Faces the Truth | There They Go Again, Planning An Attack On Iran
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- Japan suspects 2nd N. Korea test | McCain Covers Up For Bush's Nuclear Failures | After Blaming Clinton For North Korea Nuke, McCain Blasts People 'Engaging In Finger-Pointing' | Bush's Tough-Talkin' Korean Bungle | Japan announces N Korea sanctions | Rice Says U.S. Will Not Invade N. Korea | Rick Santorum: "I Don't Care If We Offend Our Allies In The Middle East" (WARNING: Scaife fishwrap link)
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- The latest Reid hit piece by the AP's GOP fabulist John Solomon is a complete scam... | ... so, naturally, Drudge runs it as a top story to scam his readers! | President Holds Presser, Sounds Like a Jibbering Imbecile | Compromised AP reporter John Solomon pens a second hit piece on Reid | NewsMax Labels Foley as a Democrat! | AP's Reid Land Deal Story (By GOP Hack John Solomon) Does Not Add Up | Keith Olbermann runs exclusive report on the new book, "Tempting Faith", that details how the GOP and Bush clique have used Evangelicals while mocking them behind their backs | Hero Of Guantanamo Passed Up For Promotion, Sending Chilling Message Through Pentagon | Sen. Reid's office rebuts irresponsible AP story | Reporters, Bush square off over Iraq, North Korea | Jon Stewart Exposes Gay Congressional Network Behind Foley Scandal | Lou Dobbs Now a CNN Star
FOX WATCH -- Gingrich repeated falsehood that Rangel promised to raise taxes if Dems take control of House
$MIRKONOMICS -- We Are Running a Massive, Economy-endangering Deficit -- So What About Its Four-year Low?
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- FCC puts off AT&T-BellSouth merger vote | More: DoJ approves Big Telco mega merger - consumers can pound salt | Over 650 of the nation's leading economists want minimum wage boosted
HOMELAND HIJINKS -- FBI agents still don't know Arabic
ELECTION THEFTS -- Report: The Kind of Voter Fraud the GOP Whines Loudest About May Be Overstated | Paranoids may be right on e-vote hacking
RACISM IN THE USA -- Ariz. Lawmaker Under Fire for White Supremist E-mail
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Why have gas prices dropped recently?
HEALTH DEBACLES -- How To Improve American Health Care: Focus On Prevention
TRASHING NATURE -- Experts tell Raw EPA under fire from Bush Administration

Oct. 11
FOLEYGATE -- ABC: Ex-aide will testify Mark Foley tried to enter page dorm | Two sources for Foley messages clarify motives:it was concern for Hill pages, not politics | Kolbe was a member of the Page Board when the earlier emails were brought to his attention | Trandahl: Talk to the Hand | Kolbe was apparently close to the same Page with whom Foley had the lurid instant message chat | Jeff Trandahl, the former House clerk who oversaw the House Page Program, is expected to break his silence | Hastert Hold News Conference In Front of Graveyard, Tries To Shift Blame To Staff, Raises Prospect of Cover-up | Foleys Bergère: Political entertainment al'Americain | Hastert Vigil: House Leadership Still Getting Along As Well As Ever (Not) | Harper's: Foley Story Is Not Electioneering; E-mails Circulated Months Ago | ABC: Hastert today contradicted yet another member of Congress; Kolbe contradicted his own staff | CREW fires back, reminds public of facts that show American Spectator story to be untrue | Kolbe: My Spokeswoman Is A Liar (Or I Am) | Hastert: Those who knew about Foley should go | Foley Ethics Probe Ramps Up | Pages Who Exposed Foley: "It Was In The Best Interests Of Kids"
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- Sun Myung Moon, Kim Jong-Il, North Korea, Bush LXI and Bush LXIII: Six years ago, Robert Parry spelled it all out | FBI pulled files on Specter after USA Today story on earmarks for clients of lobbyists related to Senator's aides | Ex-U.S. attorney and GOP up-and-comer pleads guilty for role in e-mail spam scam | Caught lying! GOP Rep. fabricates quote in TV ad | USA Today: Specter Staffer under Investigation | GOP disavows "panda & prostitutes" ad | Records suggest Pombo-Abramoff link | Did DeWine Campaign Induce Soldier To Violate Defense Department Regs? | Hastert Confidante Is "Spiritual Adviser to Scum of the Earth" | In Hour of Need, Hastert Turns to -- Nut-Job Evangelist? | Duke's Full Letter to the San Diego Union-Tribune Revealed! | George Allen (R-VA) lied about stock options, said they were worthless, actually worth $1.1 million
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- Must-see TV! Keith Olbermann: Why does habeas corpus hate America?
HOT POLITICS -- Check out a particularly sickening comment by Jim Kolbe today | Rep. Tom Reynolds is running scared, as the Capitol Hill sex scandal threatens to topple the four-term incumbent -- and his plans to keep a GOP grip on the House | GOP-friendly Gallup: Democrats Open Huge Lead in Election Outlook | Voter Excitement Level Highest in Years | NE Republican Making Do Without GOP Cash | RI-Sen, Gov: latest Rasmussen | New Lamont Ad Uses Lieberman To Challenge Lieberman | Independents Could Tip Some Elections
QWAGMIRE -- Iraqi violent deaths estimated at 654,000 since US invasion; US deaths continue to rise | Massive fire at US ammo base triggered by insurgent mortar round | Explosions From Ammunition Dump Fire Rock Baghdad | A Way Out of Iraq? Not Until the Bush Cadre Faces the Truth | There They Go Again, Planning An Attack On Iran | Uygur: Iraq VP gunmen spoke English | 75 more corpses found in Baghdad | Olympia Snowe (R-ME) rebukes "stay the course" | When US Military Planners Have Nightmares, They Have Nightmares About War With North Korea | The Forgotten War: 60 bodies found
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- Midget's Nuke Misfires! North Korean Nuke Test Went Wrong | Bush's Tough-Talkin' Korean Bungle | Japan announces N Korea sanctions | Rice Says U.S. Will Not Invade N. Korea | Rick Santorum: "I Don't Care If We Offend Our Allies In The Middle East" (WARNING: Scaife fishwrap link) | McCain Criticizes Bill Clinton on N. Korea | Flashback: Bush in 2004 promised to contain N. Korea | White House Rejects Diplomacy With North Korea | Flashback: Rumsfeld Sat On Board Of Company That Sold Nuclear Reactors To North Korea | North Korea threatens to launch a nuclear missile | CNN's Suzanne Malveaux roughs up Bush over North Korea
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- Media largely ignored Sen. Biden's disclosure that two more Senate Republicans will withhold views on Iraq until after election | Lou Dobbs Now a CNN Star | Horowitz, FrontPageMag misrepresented CREW statement on Foley emails to suggest "obstruction of justice" | Snow Says It's "Silly" And "Gratuitous" To Ask If Bush Made Any Mistakes On North Korea | Michael "Savage" Wiener: Madeleine Albright is a "traitor" who "should be hung"
FOX WATCH -- The Hume Defense: Iraqi violence is just like that in any American city | Delusional John Gibson Suggests Bad News About North Korea Nuke Test "Balances Out The Bad News" From Foley Scandal
HOMELAND HIJINKS -- FBI agents still don't know Arabic
ELECTION THEFTS -- Paranoids may be right on e-vote hacking
GUNS! GUNS!! GUNS!!! -- The best Bush can do at so-called school violence summit is urge more communication and vigilance, as opposed to stronger gun control | Bush' so-called conference on school violence was calculated to flog fear rather than offer solutions

Oct. 10
• Letter Tells House Members To Ask Present And Former Pages About Foley Contacts
GOPer: Hastert Issue "Moot" -- because republicans will lose control of the House
Hastert, Reynolds skip Sherwood fundraiser | Gallup: One-third Say Foley Situation Has Made Them Less Likely To Vote Republican | GOP to Boldly Investigate Themselves in Foley Cover-up? | 79% Of Americans: GOP Leaders Put Political Interests Ahead Of the Safety Of Teenage Pages | Rep. Reynolds Fails To Show Up Again: Claims "Scheduling Conflict" For Fundraiser | NBC, CBS uncritically aired claim by FL GOP Rep. Adam Putnam that GOP forced Foley out after learning of sexually explicit IMs | Poll: Majority Says GOP Cover-up, Hastert Should Resign | Foleygate: Hastert's Story Clashes with Recent Revelations | Increasing evidence of an FBI cover-up regarding Foley/GOP sex scandal | Foley was ready to leave US House until Rep. Tom Reynolds (R-NY) convinced him to stay and run again | Foley may be able to spend campaign cash on legal defense
• NORK data: Li'l Kim's nuke test was a dud!
Former U.S. National Security Advisor Donald Gregg explains Bush' North Korean Blunder | North Korea vs. Iraq as a threat: Howard Dean was right! | North Korea test reverberates around the world | Boobie Flashback! Bush: "Why should I care about North Korea?"
Was Rev. Moon behind timing of N. Korea nuke test to sway vote on next UN chief? | China angry but reluctant to impose sanctions against Li'l Kim | World condemns N. Korea nuke test | Bush N. Korea policy a huge mistake, says former top adviser to Vice President George HW Bush | Congress was warned of mid-decade North Korea nukes in 2002 | World condemns North Korea nuclear test claims
• Rove's Resigned Chief Aide, Susan Ralston, Supplied Inside WH Info To Abramoff
Sen. Biden: Senate Republicans keeping Bush' secret "cut and run" Iraq plan under wraps until after they lose Congress... er, election Day | Why isn't the Ken Mehlman lie a bigger story?
Tom Reynolds (R-NY) chose to keep Don Sherwood (R-PA) in key GOP leadership job after Sherwood allegedly beat and tried to strangle his mistress | GOP Senate Candidate Corker Will Not Release His Tax Returns
• The Coming GOP Civil War: What to look for while you grab the popcorn
surprise from FOX: Republicans are feeling backlash from constantly applying cut and run rhetoric to Democrats | Advisers say Kerry is running in 2008
GOP Officials Brace for Loss Of (Only?) Seven to 30 House Seats | Expecting the religious right to stay home in November? Dream on... | How bad are things on the ground in Iraq? Read this! | Al Sharpton blasts Joe Lieberman for race-baiting | CO-5: Dead heat for seat, GOP-held for 24 yrs. | TN Republicans Praise Democrat Harold Ford Jr's Campaign | CO-05: Fawcett's incredible poll showing | CO-04, CO-07: M-D polls | George "Macacawitz" Allen's Issues Are Taxes, Same-Sex Marriage, and a Dislike of Liberals (read: blacks and Jews?) | Bush plans to use North Korea and terrorism to scare people into voting Republican | Top GOP hack: N. Korea nuke test excellent news for Republicans | MN-Sen: DSCC scales back as GOP surrenders... while the DCCC decides to ante up in MN-06 | Allen, Webb in Final TV Debate | Howard Dean Talks Up Democrats in Maine | Rick Santorum Could Be The Nation's Most Vulnerable Incumbent (WARNING: Scaife fishwrap link) | FOX "News" strikes again, labels Chafee Dem | NM Gov Bill Richardson Is Exploring Possibility of Prez Run, So GOP Critics Fault His Ambition | WaPo/ABC News Poll confirms that Dems. are surging, GOP is tanking | USA Today/Gallup poll: Dems surge, GOP tanks (see a pattern yet?) | Giving 'til it hurts (them) | Katherine Harris Claims She Has Soundly Defeated Her Dem Opponent Sen. Nelson | CQ ratings show crumbling GOP chances | MI-Sen, Gov: Breathing a little easier | CA-11: Latest (D) internal poll | Married moms are leaving the GOP in droves | PA-08: On Swiftboating Patrick Murphy | George Bush described as cranky, ticked off big-time
• Joseph Wilson's War: the Cheney cabal and the biased media tried to destroy his reputation, but history has proved him right in the end -- and now he is fighting to restore his good name
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- Bankruptcy judge blasts Yoo Doctrine, denounces U.S. policy on the detention of "enemy combatants" as "the tactics of the old Soviet Union" | George Bush should be congratulated - he has surely earned the right to join the ranks of despots
QWAGMIRE -- Iran Attack Looks More Likely as Eisenhower Carrier Group Sails for Iran Theater | Uniformed Men Kill Iraqi VP's Brother; "Baghdad Has Sunk Into Lawlessness" | They lied about Iraq's WMDs; they're lying about Iran's | Fareed Zakaria finally calls it quits, says enough with the Friedmans! | "While we fret whether Joe Torre should remain the Yankees manager, we might also ponder why Donald Rumsfeld is still the secretary of defense." | Iraq Civil War: Baqu'bah Erupts | 17 percent still believe Bush on Iraq? | Army continues to use lower standards | UN Security Council Unanimously Condemns North Korea Nuke Test | Sadr City outraged over satirical Buddy Jesus images lifted from 'Dogma' | Iraq VP's brother gunned down | Five more American troops dead in Iraq
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Inexcusable: The FBI Is Struggling To Get the Counterterrorism Basics | NATO top brass: Pakistanis aid Taliban
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- Fareed Zakaria has some 'splainin' to do: Secret Iraq meeting included journos | More: NY Times, Bob Woodward Link Newsweek's Fareed Zakaria To Secret Task Force On Iraq | Glenn Greenwald harshes pompous hypocrite Thomas Sowell and the virtue of seriousness | Katie Couric's Rating Still Dropping | Chris Matthews breaks from GOP narrative, harshes on Foley fallout: "When you think of the Capitol right now... you think about the stink in that place right now and you want to fumigate it" | Media suggested conservative Christians are particularly outraged by Foley scandal -- and all others must not care about children as much | Bob Schieffer laughs (literally!) at Rep. Roy LaHood's defense of Hastert as he lists other Republican scandals | Reuters editor axed over hilarious, accurate book on Ann Coulter | Mike Malloy vs. Wingnut Troll: Teachers With Guns Discussion On the Tee-Vee Makes You Feel Like You're In School
FOX WATCH -- Robert Greenwald celebrates the tenth anniversary of FOX "News" [sic] with this video | Whiny Bill O'Reilly attacked Plain Dealer for publishing a Media Matters fellow"s review of Culture Warrior, but can"t name anything review got wrong | Chris Wallace's NY Times Interview: Blatantly Rude
EDUCATION IN THE SMIRK AGE -- How About Protecting Our Children From Torture for Kids, aka Corporal Punishment in Schools
OH, GOD! -- Tucker Carlson: Evangelicals are chumps, GOP's been playing them like a Stradivarius

Oct. 9
• Congressman Jim Kolbe (R-AZ) knew about Mark Foley's illicit Internet chats with pages -- SIX YEARS AGO!
• Newsweek: Foley Drunken Dorm Visit Prompted Intervention; Fordham, then Foley's chief of staff, approached Speaker Hastert's chief of staff Scott Palmer after dorm incident; Palmer told Fordham Hastert was informed
Smackdown! Watch Rahm Emanuel Shut Down the GOP's Foley Defense | Yet another House Republican leader, GOP Rep Putnam (R-FL), tries to downplay Foley stalking of children | Foley Scandal: Another Former Page Comes Forward -- From Iraq
Paul Krugman incisively "shrills" on Hastert, Hofstader and the Paranoid Style | Republicans Cling To Tinfoil Hat Foleygate Conspiracy Theories | So How's It Going, Boys? Are We Moving Beyond "Mistakes were Made"? No? Really? What a Surprise! | GOP leader's spin: Speaker's office acted proactively, aggressively | Tucker Carlson: "Foley's Not The Only One" | Embattled Rep. Thomas Reynolds, caught in Foley scandal, cancels Sunday talk show appearance | Foleygate Follies: Republicans Have Been Tripping Over Each Other Trying To Get Their Stories Straight | Foley Scandal: Who Knew What? And Is the Ethics Panel up to the Task?
• North Korea Says Nuclear Test Successful
North Korea: member of the Bush administration Axis of Failure tests nuke
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- After Rove aide Susan Ralston resigns over Abramoff scandal, major questions remain about Abramoff/White House contacts | Macacawitz Moolah! Well, well -- Sen. George Felix Allen Jr. Failed to Disclose Stock Options | Republican ... Values? | Kerry Vows Tougher Stance Against Smear Boat Liars | LaHood Falsely Claims Hastert's Strong Leadership Was Responsible For DeLay's Resignation | PA-08: Fighting Dem Patrick Murphy is being Swiftboated | Rep. Kingston admits culture of corruption: "It's The Job Of The Speaker To Protect The Majority"
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- American Concentration Camps Are on the Way, Courtesy of Kellogg, brown & Root
HOT POLITICS -- Some Republicans face political death over Foley | New Poll: Americans Losing Faith In Leadership | Watch Tom Kean Jr. turn his back on the mother of a soldier in Iraq | Suburban Philadelphia voters have elected Curt Weldon to Congress 10 times. But an 11th remains in doubt for one reason -- he can't escape the Republican taint of the war in Iraq | MN Democrat Takes Hits in Senate Bid -- and Hits Back, Harder | Moms and GOP: No Longer Happy Together | TN-Sen, MO-Sen: Debates | Hundreds Of Iraqi Police Fall Ill After Poisoning At Meal | GOP Senate Candidate Jim Talent (R-MO) Tries To Distance Himself From Bush | The rationale for the existence of the Contract For America class is gone | NY-26: Stick a Fork In Him... New Poll Shows Incumbent GOP Rep. Tom Reynolds 15 Points Behind
QWAGMIRE -- Sources: Baker Commission May Recommend Carving Iraq Into 3 Autonomous Regions | Bush: Cut And Runner? | 4,000 Iraqi police killed past 2 years | James K. Baker III, a political ally of the Bushes, wants America to cut and run! | US casualty rate in Iraq worst since Fallujah | U.S. and Iraqi Forces Clash With Sadr Militia in South | Analysis: North Korea test a sign of weakness | Iraq Failure Leads To Scrambling For Alternatives | Cycle of quagmire: Troops launch yet another Kirkuk crackdown | What Soldiers Are Saying | We are about to lose Afghanistan now too
WAR CRIMES -- Gitmo defense lawyer forced out of Navy
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Dick Cheney says Ronald Reagan emboldened Al Qaeda. Yes, you read that right...
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- Condi Rice proves her utter incompetence with latest failed Middle East trip
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- Wolf Blitzer grows spine, puts heat on Representative Patrick McHenry (R-NC): "Yes or no: do you have any evidence? Do you have any evidence Congressman [that Dems knew about Foley e-mails]?" | Team Bush Is Losing the Cokie Moms | On Sunday shows, Russert and Stephanopoulos continued to advance baseless charge of Democratic involvement in Foley scandal
FOX WATCH -- Chris Wallace let Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA) falsely claim CREW is a "partisan 527 organization"
FAULTY INTELLIGENCE -- WaPo: Porter Goss is undertaking politicization of the CIA
OH, GOD! -- As Exemptions Grow, Religion Outweighs Regulation Under Bush Regime
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Republican Values in Action: Liberal blogger, denied emergency contraception, finds herself pregnant; will she sue the doctors who refused to prescribe Plan B?

Oct. 8
• Former Page: As an Adult I Had Sex With Then-congressman Mark Foley
House's Foley investigation is wide open
Foley Case Upsets Tough Balance of Capitol Hill's Gay Republicans | weasels: Republicans try to implicate Pelosi in Predatorgate with nonsense | Soldier In Iraq Subpoenaed In Foley Investigation | James Dobson blames the victims | House's Foley Investigation Is Wide Open | Dems To Hastert: Hang In There, Buddy (Heh-heh) | Dem says GOP leaders swept Foley scandal under the rug | Poll: Majority think Hastert tried to cover up scandal | Foley Scandal Puts Gay Republicans Under Siege And Suspicion | Democratic congressional candidate Patty Wetterling says GOP congressional leadership failed to protect teenage House pages from former Rep. Mark Foley's advances
• The GOP is tanking; Bush approval hits all-time low in Newsweek poll
"In a media culture that focuses on the most lurid and scary-as opposed to the greatest-threats to kids, Republicans are suddenly at the mercy of a social force that used to work for them" | Sex, Lies and Power Games Are Just The Latest Symptoms Of A Republican Party That Has Strayed From Its Self-proclaimed Ideals | How To Play the Spin Game (And Why The GOP Is In Meltdown)
Democratic agenda for the House will embrace conservative values of rigorous oversight, spending crackdown -- will they de-fund Iraq, faith-based scams, no-bid cronyism? Looks that way... | Polls: GOP's hold on evangelicals weakening | Scandals, corruption hitting Ohio's GOP voters hard; will they stay home? | Our Chance to Rein in The Decider | NY-AG: Vallone says Pirro may be unfit for AG | NY-AG: Vallone says Pirro may be unfit for AG | The Democrats look likely to make midterm gains as Bush tries to recover from scandals | CA-GOV: Taxes Take Center Stage in Testy Guv Debate | Panic: GOP dumps $7.8mil into 30 House races | Too little, too late: NY Rep. Reynolds Runs Apologetic Ad In Wake of Foleygate Scandal | Republican Talking Points I'd Like To Hear | Hang Separately? Nah. Drown Together. | Dems Positioned to Challenge GOP Control of Congress | The Incumbency Protection Racket
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- NRCC Is Keeping Money They Know Came From A Disgraced Sexual Predator | Bob Ehrlich Tries To Buy Votes -- Literally | Cheney Resumes Close-Door Fundraising: "Sounding More Like A Chief Executive Reporting To Shareholders Than A Politician" | And Let's Not Forget the OTHER Scandal Hastert Doesn't Want Voters Talking About | Trial May Hurt Ohio GOP on Election Day | Did James Carville Sabotage Kerry's Plan to Contest Ohio? | Josh Marshall on the resignation of Susan Ralston
QWAGMIRE -- Weekend violence strikes all areas of Iraq | Can We Call It Civil War Yet? | US Wounded In Iraq Surges To Two-year High | "When all the other scandals pass and fade into our national consciousness, when the debates about climate policy and economic policy and social policy are no more, there will always be Iraq" | Rumsfeld Forces Army To Ask For Bigger Budget, More Equipment On Its Own
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- How Bush Policies Feed the Paranoid Theocracy in Iran
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- Review: "Death of a President"
OH, GOD! -- Bush brings faith to foreign aid, gives funds to Christian groups whose real goal is evangelizing | Foundation linked to Rev. Moon donates toward Neil Bush's company
RACISM IN THE USA -- George Allen's claims he never used the N word have completely lost credibility