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Hot Headlines, November 2006

Nov. 11
• Democrats may use probes to force policy shifts
Sen. McCain begins presidential bid | Survivor: The White House Edition | Karl Rove misread electorate, though public was not paying attention to rampant corruption and cronyism | Here is the Democrats' "Conservative Agenda" (if you consider, say, Jon Tester a conservative) | Analysis: GOP redistricting backfired | Lots can share credit for Dem victories -- and toppling GOP-dominated "conventional Beltway wisdom" | Howard Dean, vindicated: The DNC chairman's "crazy" strategy of rebuilding the Democratic Party across all states helped it ride the national wave against the GOP | Thanks to Bush and Iraq, the Republican coalition that has come to dominate America suffered a huge crash | CBS states the obvious, but it bears repeating: Things aren't going Bush's way | Just how bad was it for Republicans last Tuesday, you ask? Well, how about this... | Um, really? No kidding! Midterm elections help Pelosi, hurt Rove | Bush is concerned that the country doesn't think Republicans are patriotic | Dear Everyone Who Thinks They Singled-Handedly Won the Last Election... | Did Nasty NRCC Robo Calls Win Elections For Some GOP Candidates? | James Carville wants Dean out, Ford in at DNC | The GOP is apparently making a hasty miscalculation as a result of their losses | How you win, even when you lose: Oregon is a case in point | Obama Still Mulling White House Run | James Carville wants to oust Howard Dean, the architect of the party's 50-state strategy sweep | Krugman: We may be seeing the downfall of movement conservatism | That Might Not Be Such a Bad Thing Department: Dead Man Wins Election In North Carolina | GOP furious at timing of Rumsfeld firi... er, resignation | Rope-a-dope? Dean tells Stewart Dems won't be impeaching Bush
• Government Reform Committee Chairman-to-be Henry Waxman's dilemma: "The most difficult thing will be to pick and choose" who and what to investigate
"One can forgive Rove his surprise. He was too close to the problem to see it for what it was." | Dems Pledge to Sever Ties to Lobbyists | Bush Defense pick Bob Gates has heavy baggage, including being accused of cherry picking intell to favor the White House, and lying under oath | WaPo treads on eggshells about Bush having lied outright to the American poeple for political reasons | Some Democrats need to do some 'splainin' | Feds pursue probe of Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) | RNC Chair Nominee Flashback: Michael Steele Shifted, Lied about Bush Remarks | RNC Taps Homeless-Hustling Pol Michael Steele for New Chief
• First Major Order of Business: Democrats, Engaging Bush, Vow Early Action Over Iraq
Is US Winning War? Chairman Of Joint Chiefs Of Staff: "You Have To Define 'Winning'" | Pentagon Planning To Send National Guard Units Back For Second Iraq Tour | Rumsfeld exit dates back to summer | US Office In Iraq Attacked By Mortar Fire | Israeli: Strike on Iran still a possibility | Three American soldiers were killed in two separate incidents in Iraq, the military said on Friday
• Disconnect Notice for Big Brother: Warrantless Wiretaps Unlikely To Be OKed
Will New Congress Listen To Wiretaps Bill? | Democrats in Congress vow to investigate NSA "big brother" snooping program aggressively once they assume power
WAR CRIMES -- A little justice; maybe the Germans should waterboard Rummy!
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Report: Al Qaeda may plan Europe transit attacks (which undercuts Bush claims) | He was against the tairists before he was for them: George Bush insist on making Al Qaeda happy | Argentina seeks Rafsanjani arrest | Alleged Al Qaeda tape is the typical schoolyard taunt stuff
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- Tony Snow Touts John Bolton's "Successful" Record. Really, Tony? | Deluded Ali Khamenei: Bush's defeat "Iran victory" (when in fact Bush has madeIran stronger) | Buh-bye bully boy Bolton: Inept, bellicose UN ambASSador set to lose his job
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- Matt Taibbi is still hung over from bad Election Day TV | More On The Media Narrative Of The Election: Now the New Wave of Democrats Is "Conservative" -- Compared to Who? Che? Mao? | Letter to the Editor of the Moment | Dixie Chick: "Either The Beer Is Free Or You're Happy That Donald Rumsfeld Resigned Today" | The new media narrative: it helps Democrats, and for once it is grounded in a bit of truth | Sell, Sell, Sell! Morgan Stanley Urges NY Times Shareholders To Unload Their Stock
FOX WATCH -- Only on FOX: Conservatives in severe denial | Only on FOX News: Election Results Show Conservative USA (cue laugh track)
TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION -- No rebate scam this time: Democrats plan to permanently lower taxes for many middle-class families | Unemployment Rolls Rise on K Street
DISASTROUS RESPONSE -- Katrina Victims Still Waiting For Rebuilding Money
ELECTION THEFTS -- Santorum Calls for Impounding of Touch-Screen Machines in PA | Never Mind the So-called "Results" -- Election 2006 Was a Disaster for E-voting Systems Across the Nation | Zogby Exit Poll of San Diego's CA50 Busby/Bilbray Election Shows 6-Point Distortion from Announced Results | Outcome Uncertain in 8 House Races | Florida paper: Ann Coulter, Mark Foley failed to cast their ballots | Florida braces for intense recount
OH, GOD! -- 46% of Evangelicals think Clinton was as good a Christian, or better, than Bush | Sex, drugs and evangelism: Haggard hustler tells all
RACISM IN THE USA -- Republican party chair Ken Mehlman was for black people before he was against them
TRASHING NATURE -- Sen Boxer Now Head Of Environmental Committee -- Plans Fast Action
GAY IN AMERICA -- Radical Right's Sean Hannity Allows Gay Matches On His Dating Website | WorldNetDaily: Karl Rove is Gay

Nov. 10
• " Robert Gates made Osama Bin Laden what he is today"
The Secret World of Robert Gates | A Trojan Horse gift to America and the Democrats: Former CIA Director and Iran-Contra insider Robert Gates | Bob Casey, Rumsfeld replacement pick, accused of intelligence fixing | Gates expected to clean house at DOD | 18 Months Ago, SecDef Nominee Gates Suggested U.S. Withdrawal In A Year or Two | Gates: SecDef Pick Comes with His Own Ghosts
• Dems plan to force change in Iraq policy
Swelling dissent within the military establishment -- and Tuesday's rebuke by voters -- was the one-two punch that ended the career of Don Rumsfeld | Bush flip-flops as timeline begins to emerge; Handover to Iraqi Army set for end of 2007 | Now He Tells Us! Rumsfeld Admits Iraq War Not Going "Well Enough Or Fast Enough" | The Onion covers Rummy resignation as only they can | Watch this! Rumsfeld's finger wave
Analysis: The Republicans lost the 2006 elections because they are crazy people with shitty policies that have all failed | It is becoming clear that Cheney is being thrown over the side | Will Cheney be next to go? | Salon on the vindication of Howard Dean's "crazy" strategy | Payback is a bitch: Lincoln Chafee to block Bolton decision | Rahm Emanuel, Diane DeGette vie for key Dem spots | 150,000 Iraqi civilians who have been killed in the war | Daddy's men enter to salvage what little of Dim Son's administration they can | Sore loserman: Several Republican sources tell CNN that Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman is all but certain to step down at the end of the year | Bush grovels at lunch with Speaker-designate Nancy Pelosi, begs for bipartisanship | Democrats.com Launches ImpeachForChange Mobilization for Impeachment | Why the extremely odd behavior from WaPo re: the President's Rumsfeld lie? | Denver Hoping to Secure the 2008 Democratic Convention | Corporate Media Credit Chuck Schumer, Rahm Emanuel With Engineering democratic Sweep -- But Forget Howard Dean's 50-State Strategy | "Strong good riddance" to creepy Rep. Richard "Dick" Pombo | So, now that White House claims it wants to "get rid of partisanship" -- and then... | Lawmakers End Effort To Ban Same-Sex Marriage In MA | Wisconsin hate amendment costs state GOP control of legislature | More: Sen. Allen Concedes Defeat in Virginia | MN Congressman-elect Is Muslim Trailblazer | Welcome to the majority party? Lincoln Chafee unsure he'll stay Republican | CT-02: Another recount | Mitch "Cabbage Patch" McConnell Set To Be Senate Minority Leader | WA-08: Looking great | Bush thinks he can get lame duck Senate to confirm Gates and Bolton -- think again on that last one, Junior | Dem Campaign Leader Rahm Emanuel Puts In House Leadership Bid | Former Clinton advisor Jeremy Rosner explains how Dems can lock in their gains on national security | Tony Snow Tells Us the Obvious On Election Results: Bush "Doesn't Absorb A Rejection" | OH-2, OH-15, NM-01: Still in play | The President has designs on the lame duck Congressional session | There is a reason that the DLC has lost just about all influence in DC | As the canvassing continues in Virginia, Sen. George Allen, R-Virginia, is sequestered in his home, shell shocked and going through a nightmare | Looking ahead to the 2008 Senate picture | Sen. Craig Thomas (R-WY) diagnosed with leukemia | A buzz-cut, passion and issues that resonate: Montana's newest Senator, Jon Tester, seeks sweeping change | The Onion: Republicans Blame Losses on Democrats | Pure comedy gold: Bush makes futile attempt to "set" legislative agenda in Rose Garden appearance | The silver lining: hundreds of out-of-work GOP staffers face unemployment | Voter turnout was at 40% this time | The 50-state strategy is looking pretty good today | Murtha, Hoyer contend for House Majority Leader post | US-Prez: Iowa's Tom Vilsack becomes first candidate in prez race
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- For MD GOPer Michael Steele, Homeless Brigade Not New | Homeless Man to GOP Pol: "No One Has the Right to Use Me That Way" | Grover Norquist: not only criminal, but delusional
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- John Bolton renomination already dead | GOP will attempt to confirm John Bolton as UN Ambassador before Dems take power | Democratic control may seal Bolton's fate at UN post
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- Closet News Network: CNN Is Still an Utter Tool of the Closeted Republican Fascists | It is time to Restore the Fairness Doctrine! | CNN tells YouTube to pull down video in which Bill Maher outed GOP party head Ken Mehlman | Boo-hoo-hoo! Republican-loving Tweety is going to miss many of his GOP pals... | Smackdown! Imus Bans Russert After Today Snub | CNN censors Bill Maher, deletes Larry King Live segment where Maher outs GOP party chair Ken Mehlman as gay | Intellectual Dishonesty Personified: Charles Krauthammer | Will gullible media acknowledge they were too credulous in touting Rove's pre-election optimism? Well, we are not holding our breath... | NBC=Nothing But Conservatives: After midterms and Rumsfeld resignation, only pro-war non-Dem senators scheduled on Meet the Press | Mary Matalin: still delusional | Quick Notes from Planet Earth to the Lofty Beltway Pundit Class | Stephen Colbert: "Every Congressman I've Interviewed Was Reelected" | "(B)y far the biggest loser of the 2006 midterms was NRO's Kathryn Jean Lopez, who made an idiot spectacle of herself with her birdbrained Rick Santorum cheerleading" | Must-see TV! Cliff "Smashmouth" Schecter gives another right-wing talking head a painful case of red-ass on MSNBC! | Colbert Welcomes Newly Elected Representative John Hall | Right wing talk radio hosts lick election wounds
FOX WATCH -- Why Fred Barnes is one of the dumbest pundits ever!
WHAT A RUSH! -- The Liberation Of Limbaugh (from what little sanity he held on to?)
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- US automakers grovel for help from Democrats
ELECTION THEFTS -- Bob Gates, Rumsfeld's Replacement, Said to Have Been Director of Mysterious E-voting Company | Rep. Sue Kelly (NY-19) lawyers up for recount | A monumental victory for the election protection movement | FL-13: County Supervisor Asks for Election Audit | NC-08: Still within reach | Deja Vu: Fla. Recount Likely for House | FL-13, OH-15, NC-08: Recounts | FL-13: Paper Analysis Shows Glitches May Have Cost Dem Race | Still over 20,000 votes to be counted in OH-15
OH, GOD! -- Religious right joins in GOP civil war | The evangelicals have lost faith in the GOP
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Judge OKs White House Subpoena In Plan-B Case

Nov. 9
• AP calls VA for Webb; Dems take Senate; Bush Regime Faces Two-year Nightmare
• American Voters Just Say No
• Ask your legislator: What is your plan to restore Constitutional government?
• Loser: Hastert to step down as Leader after bloodbath in House
• A day of reckoning for the conservative movement
Sidney Blumenthal: The Fall of the House of Kitsch | The real meaning of a Democratic sweep: Neocons or liberals? | This election ought to demolish the Myth of Karl Rove | Shut up, Rahm. Shut up and stop getting in front of the cameras, because Howard Dean was right | Macacawitz death watch: George Felix Allen Jr. has been beaten to a shell of his bully-boy, slaver-flag-lovin' self | Rumsfeld is only the first to pay the price as US sends message to Bush | 110th Congress' Legislative Priorities: Minimum wage, drug and energy prices, corruption fight | Let The 2008 Run For The White House Begin | Right-wing icon Richard Viguerie: Republicans have failed this country | Bush shocks nation, actually takes responsibility for humiliating, embarrassing, disastrous GOP election losses | Hotline: Republicans will soon pressure George Allen to concede | Karl "Turd Blossom" on the way out?
• Rumsfeld fired.... er, resigns
• Meet Rummy's replacement, Ex-CIA boss Bob Gates
Larry Johnson: Bob Gates and Iran-Contra | Democrats to Bush: we want summit on Iraq | Rep. Murtha: Change in Congressional power means change in the politics of Iraq war | More of the same with Robert Gates (except possibly worse) | Loyal Bush ally: Rumsfeld has screwed the President
• Bill Maher outs Republican party chair Ken Mehlman as gay on Larry King Live
Hugh Hewitt: a living example of how Bush followers literally deny reality | Watch this! Jon Stewart urges Howard Dean to uniquely express his exuberance over Democratic Sweep 2006 | Countdown plays the MSNBC Election Night highlight reel | Suzanne Malveaux, James Guckert: Odd similarity | Three #1 Priorities for the democratic Majority: Media, Media, Media | Scarborough Reflects On Rumsfeld -- and it's not particularly flattering
• Inside FOX News Channel's night from hell: contempt for Democrats, contempt for voters, bitterness, fear and loathing
• Fox News Makes Up New "Minority Speaker" Position For Defeated Conservatives
• A monumental victory for the election protection movement
• Is There a Bulk Rate on Printing Subpoenas?
Incoming US House panel head intends to probe oil deals, up fuel standards | What the President's casual admission of lying means | ABC says "Payback Time," but it's really about justice -- who the Democrats will target, who will investigate rampant Administration and GOP corruption | Watch This! Liar-in-chief George Bush Jr. Admits He Lied About Rumsfeld For Political Purposes
HOT POLITICS -- Bush lied and forced Republican candidates to defend Rummy last week when he had no intention of keeping him | Republicans Privately Admit Adm. Jim Webb Won VA Senate Seat, Will Pressure Allen to Concede... Soon | Young voters increase turnout, aid Democratic victories | Who Really Won This Election? Chris Bowers Breaks it Down | Sore loserman 2006: Shameless, scandal-ridden has-been Conrad Burns refuses to concede | GOP could try to grind Senate to a halt by challenging legitimate election results | So what does Bush mean by "bipartisanship"? | Progressive Victories Lead To A Night Of Firsts | Make our day! Just let the Republicans contest the VA election | Dems make major gains in state legislatures | Democratic Congress expected to intensely scrutinize prescription drug policy, oversight and management of defense | MT-Sen: Republican incumbent Conrad Burns loses to immensely superior Democrat Jon Tester | Red state goes blue: Pennsylvania's extreme makeover | MT-Sen: It's morning in Montana | E.J. Dionne: "American voters, in their wisdom, ended an era on Tuesday" | Senate Majority Leader-designate Harry Reid declares the days of the Do-Nothing Congress over | Bush scrambles to make nice with Speaker-designate Nancy Pelosi | Pelosi: "I've Broken The Marble Ceiling" | Why Dems won: Howard Dean clearly knows and understands who the base of the Democratic base is | Rangel to Cheney: Get your crap out of my new office | MD Senate delegation gives public a taste of legislation, change to come | LA-02: SSP, DailyKos & MyDD Endorse Karen Carter for Congress Run-off | Our GOTV can beat up their GOTV | CNN's Lou Dobbs: George Allen should concede defeat | Cheney's Dukakis moment in the cockpit | ay Buchanan warns that if George Allen seeks recount in VA, country will resent GOP, think they stole the Senate | Rep. Nancy Pelosi: "Nowhere was the call for a new direction more clear from the American people than in the war in Iraq" | Ezra Klein debunks the coordinated and quick GOP-pundit campaign seeking to paint this election as some sort of victory for ... conservatism | Conrad Burns Caught Dozing Again...This Time Waiting For Election Results | Dems Top GOP Voter Turnout
QWAGMIRE -- Iraq chaos continues: state of emergency declared | The death of Pat Tillman: incompetence to the fourth power | Gates Will Inherit A Cowed Military From Rumsfeld
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Bush to "terrorists": "Do not be joyful" over midterm election results (and they aren't -- they wanted more war, more Bush)
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- Another Media Miracle: The Sudden, Unheralded Appearance Of the Democrats' Agenda | All Hail the Bloggers -- and their role in Democratic sweep! | Conservative Talkers (and Howie Kurtz himself) Feeling Just a Little Blue | Watch this! Colbert Mourns GOP Loss | Schadenfreude Continues; A media right wingnut gets it wrong -- way wrong | Hey Red State, How'd That Work Out For You? | Dems win big, progressive policies enjoy broad public support -- but WaPo declares nation "right of center" | The new Beltway stupidity (better known as their "conventional wisdom"): ignoring widespread agreement on core issues, media suggested wins by "conservative Democrats" will cause intraparty strife
$MIRKONOMICS -- Rep. John Spratt, the South Carolina Democrat who is expected to head the Budget Committee, wants balanced budget in five years
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- With Long National Nightmare Over, Wall Street Reaches New High On Election Results | Six states boost minimum wage | U.S. consumer credit takes huge drop
TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION -- Democrats' tax agenda: tuition, sales tax deductions, estate tax revival
ELECTION THEFTS -- FL-13 Recount: Here Come the Lawyers | Montana law may forbid Burns recount | In FL, Electronic Voting Shortfall Raises Eyebrows
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Judge OKs White House Subpoena In Plan-B Case | Justices have pointed abortion discourse | CDC censorship on abortion, condoms exposed | CDC blocked data on illegal abortions

Nov. 8
• Democrats Seize Control of the US House of Representatives
• A Voter Rebuke For Bush, the War and the Right
• "The era of one-party Republican rule in Washington ended with a crash in yesterday's midterm elections"
• Control of Senate Hangs on Results From One Montana County
• Extremist GOP ballot issues lose in conservative states
• Is There a Bulk Rate on Printing Subpoenas?
• $250,000 Reward
• Bush Now Has No Choice But to Rethink Support For Rumsfeld
• FreeRepublic.com gives up and dies
• "We caught them. They cheated and we caught them. Why?"
• Kos: Today is the end of the electronic voting machine
• Maybe NOW something will be done in one southern state? South Carolina's Republican governor was turned away from the polls
• Caught on tape: Laura Ingraham eggs on listeners to jam DNC phone lines
• Palast: Election was already stolen
HOT POLITICS -- Democrats Take Majority of Governorships | American Voters Just Say No | GOP swept out in anger | Minnesota sends first Muslim to Congress | Democrats captured 27 Republican-controlled seats. No Democratic incumbent has thus far lost | Michael J. Fox is now a Political Playa | Rick Santorum forces his crying kids to share podium with him as he concedes | Cafferty: End of the Neocons? | Triple Setback For America's Taliban Right: SD Rejects Abortion Ban, AZ Defeats Gay Marriage, MO Backs Stem Cell Research. | In the End, Scandals Scorched House GOP | MT-Sen: Close, Votes Still Being Tallied | In VA-Sen, Webb Declares Victory, Allen Does Not Concede | Go check out the cover of the UK Independent -- it says it all! | This is the Democrat's great victory -- so let's crush the GOP's and media's developing myths | Karl Rove had to admit catastrophic failure and formally inform the President that the House had gone to the Democrats | Democratic Senate Leader Harry Reid thanks the online grassroots | End of the link for nastiest midterm ever | Steve Gilliard addresses the GOP' black losers | GOP "Contract With America" Confesses to Meth Habit, Love Affair w/Summer Squash, Sordid Candy Laundering Scandal | At GOP headquarters in Washington, Ken Mehlman & Co. go from glum to grim as the Dems take the House | Nancy Pelosi looks sure to become an even bigger thorn in the side of George Bush now that the Democrats have retaken control of the House Representatives | AP: Almost One-Third Of Evangelicals Voted For Dems | Wall Street wants the Dems to win | CT-Sen: Will Lamont shock the nation? Record turnout reported -- BIGGER than 2004!
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- Lame Duck "Hot tub Tom" DeLay: Miffed at Democrats' rise | Conrad Burns Revokes Press Credentials Of Newspaper That Ran Poll Showing Opponent Ahead | George Allen, who has a de facto affirmative action policy in his office for hiring gays, bashes gays for votes | RNC chairman's latest smear: Don't let Dems turn Iraq into another Afghanistan | Kean Jr. Accuses Menendez of Office Vandalism | White House Caught Allegedly Doctoring "Mission Accomplished" Video | CO-05: Thugs
ELECTION THEFTS -- MD GOP Candidate Recruits Homeless to Pass Out Deceptive Flyers | From Idaho, More Election Day Violence | The Maryland GOP's ballot scam | Scarborough: Why Are The Republicans Against Paper Trails? | Voter ID Laws Keeping GOP Lawmakers From Polls? | Huge problems with Denver voting; Dems want extension | Poll worker charged with assaulting, removing voter | Ken Mehlman projects again, says Democrats did the voter intimidating in 2004 | Vote by mail is the answer | Sen. George Felix Allen Jr's Campaign Connected To Phone Call Threatening People With Arrest If They Show Up To Vote | FBI Investigating Voter Intimidation In Virginia | Judge orders 16 precincts to stay open until 10:00pm in Cleveland | Chelsea Clinton Has Voting Problems In NYC District | Voters Swamped With Phony Guides Funded By Oil, Tobacco Companies | Heavy turnout across Virginia | Poll Watcher: Latino Voters Harrassed in AZ | More: In VA, FBI Probing Voter Intimidation in Dem Areas | Laura Ingraham Is a Voter Intimidation Thug | GOP Rep's Dad Has 14 "Adults" Registered At His Household (WARNING: FAUX News Link) | Mailbag: In CT, GOP Robo Blackmail? | Poll Watch Site Crashes | Watch this! Mean Jean Schmidt, perhaps the single most hated member of the House, had voting problems this morning! | Thief grabs voting machine from CA election official's car | Delaware extending hours? | Problems in PA | From crooksandliars.com, Jamie experiences a voting glitch
QWAGMIRE -- Blast kills 20 at Pakistan army camp | Meanwhile, US death toll keeps mounting in Iraq
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- Joe Scarborough gets miffed | Chris Matthews sort of compliments his election night co-anchor Keith Olbermann | GOP's Bill Bennett and JC Watts were angry and delusional on CNN | Fox polls show gains for Democrats in Senate | Want A Laugh? | On MSNBC, Bob Shrum keeps Norah O'Donnell from saying something stupid
WHAT A RUSH! -- Paul Begala nails it, says Limbaugh is a "self-discredited, drug-addled gasbag"
$MIRKONOMICS -- Market surges on hopes of fiscal discipline created by Democrat-controlled Congress
HOMELAND HIJINKS -- Guards: Supermax prison understaffed
OH, GOD! -- Dobson quits Haggard counsel

Nov. 7
• Keith Olbermann: This country was founded to prevent anybody from making it up as they went along
• Senior Dem House members call for federal investigation into GOP robo-call election fraud
• The finger-pointing intensifies: White House blames Congress (read: Hoekstra and Santorum) for leaking nuclear secrets on Web
Rep. Pete Hoekstra blames John "Iran-Contra" Negroponte and the Intelligence community for WMDs-on-the-Web flap | In June, Hoekstra And Santorum Insisted "We Found WMDs In Iraq!" Hoekstra Now Says "I Don't Know"
• Saddam's Verdict Turns Out To Have Been Announced Four Days Early, Court Won't Finish Writing Decision Until Thursday
• GOP robo-call scandal grows, now hitting WA, NJ and VA
• In Missouri, election officials ask Sec. of State for photo ID even after law was struck down
Dems to GOP: Quit With the Harrassing Robo Calls | One Nation, under Robo Calls, Indivisible? | NH makes GOP stop misleading election-oriented robo-calls | Indiana GOP Fires Harrassing Robo Call Firm | Second GOP Firm Tied to Harrassing Robo Calls | Indiana GOP fires fake robo-call firm for breaking Indiana law | CNN Gives Coverage To The Robocall Scam | Robo Caller Does Not Want YOUR Calls at (804) 358-0560 | Republicans Deny Subterfuge as Phone Barrages Anger Voters | In NJ, Kean Jr. is using race-baiting robo-calls | NY Times reports on the GOP harassing robo-calls | Keith Olbermann covers robocall scandal | WaPo picks up GOP "robo calls" story
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- Reader Mailbag: A Former GOP Push-Poller Tells All! | Cost of Taking Fuel to Iraq Is Questioned in New Audit | Missouri election chief was wrongly asked for photo ID | UN to appoint former Moonie as head of World Food Program; Bush Admin backs candidate | GOP calling voters at 2am and 3am, pretending to be Dems | Wal-Mart makes last minute donations to Republicans | Among NM Dems, Growing Complaints of GOP Phone Calls
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- America's Slide to Totalitarianism
HOT POLITICS -- Cook Political Report makes final predictions - dismisses notion that there has been a significant tightening of national polls | NE-03: Bush endorses Kleeb (D) — unintentionally! | ... Because They Have Abandoned 50-state strategy | Condi Breaks Non Partisan Pledge To Stump For GOP | Looks like Ohio is going to be interesting today | ABC: Top Republican strategists concede House probably lost | Rothenberg: Dems gain 4-7 seats in Senate; 30-36 in House | VA-Sen: Voter suppression in Virginia | GOP civil war expands: Bob Novak reports Republicans are blaming Bush who "should have disappeared" | Bush Spending Day Before Elections With Loser-elect Katherine Harris | NY State GOP Lashing Out At National Party For Lack Of Support... | Watch this! Slamming The Republican Campaign Strategy As Only Clinton Can | MT-Sen: GOP "Master Plan" (Or Not.) | David Corn: Does Bush have a political death wish? | Jim Webb has the BIG MO in Virginia | VA-Sen: Dem Candidate Webb Surges Ahead Of George Allen | Topeka, KS TV Report on GOP Trying to Suppress Our Democracy | Push Poll Org To Be Active on Election Day | Another symptom of desperation: RNC orchestrates pre-emptive "strike" against exit poll leaks | Just in time for election day, Bush approval drops to 35% | Disregarding Democracy | Western Democrats offer party a promising horizon | Another Pelosi Sighting (But Still No Hastert Sightings!) | Ohio Absentee Ballots Scanned Early | Ex-White House official Dick Armitage: GOP will pay for their 'angry face' | White House furious at FL guv candidate Charlie Crist's high-profile snub
QWAGMIRE -- US helicopter crashes in Iraq; 2 dead | Torture charges for 57 Iraqi police
WAR CRIMES -- A Shift in the Debate On International Court: Some U.S. Officials Seem to Ease Disfavor
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- Iraq ambassador Khalilzad to quit
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- The White House and the right-wing blogosphere -- mirror images | Dan Rather Guest Stars With Stewart And Colbert On Tonight's Hybrid "Midterm Midtacular" | He's grown a spine and a pair, just in time for the GOP meltdown: CNN's Blitzer shuts down Pete Hoekstra's Iraq WMD spin | Exit-Poll Secrecy Measures Aim to Plug Leaks to Matt Dru...er, Bloggers | Rupert Murdoch: Iraq Deaths Are "Minute" | Privatization 'Tsunami' Sweeps Old Media | Joe Klein, pronounced "joke line" | Olbermann only MSNBC prime-time anchor absent from special election coverage | Jack Cafferty calls Don Rumsfeld a "war criminal" | Only on Fox News... um, make that MSNBC | Newsweeklies Go God In Pre-Election Issues | Tucker Carlson: 'Kean has made it pretty clear that Senator Menendez is a dues-paying member of the Mafia' | McLaughlin: It could be that the flubbed version of John Kerry's troop education remarks may be true -- and that truth speaks poorly of our nation
FOX WATCH -- FOX News Can't Bring Themselves To Say Dems Are Winning! | How To Read A Poll "FOX" Style | Kansas Clinics Want Fox TV Host Bill O'Reilly, State Attorney General Investigated
WHAT A RUSH! -- The Bush administration and the Rush Limbaugh Show have all but merged this year
ELECTION THEFTS -- Virginia State Board of Elections Secretary Finds Widespread Incidents of Voter Suppression | Mehlman: Dems 'can't win at ballot box,' need judges' help | Feds dispatching 850 election watchers to 22 states | Ohio governor's race: The fox guarding the henhouse | Is GOP hijacking democracy? | NRCC Robo Calls Hitting 20 Districts
JUSTICE WATCH -- Bill Frist Brings Back The Old Line Of "Common-Sense (Read: Christain Fundamentalist) Judges"
OH, GOD! -- Evangelicals are in crisis | The Hilarity Continues: Child-beating Advocate James Dobson, 2 Mega-Church Pastors To Lead Haggard's "Spiritual Restoration"
RACISM IN THE USA -- What Ward Connerly Doesn't Want You To Know About Affirmative Action | What type of appeal are the Republicans making here? Maybe... racist?
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Women's Reproductive Clinics Request O'Reilly Probe
GAY IN AMERICA -- Blog axes post that outed GOP candidate

Nov. 6
• Bush Has "Shrugged Off" Our Soldiers and the Military Papers, Won't Push for Rumsfeld's Resignation
• Bush's Atomic Blunder
GOP Rep. Pete Hoekstra Says Bush Administration "Screwed Up" In Posting Iraq Docs Online
• More on the GOP's Massive Voter Suppression Tactic
• Republican "fake phone call" scandal spreads - now in Philly too
• More states hit by GOP effort to suppress vote with fake phone calls pretending to be Dem candidates
The Republicans admit they are breaking to law to stop people from voting | More GOP dirty phone tricks in New Hampshire
• Dick Cheney Says He Would Probably Not Testify Before Congress, Even If Subpoenaed
• Doctor To Demand Investigation Of Bill O'Reilly, KS Attorney General Over Access To Abortion Records
• Quick! Grab the Body Armor! Hide the Kids!! And DUCK!!! Dick Cheney Is Going Hunting on Election Day
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- Neocon Michael Ledeen caught lying about claim he "opposed the military invasion of Iraq before it took place" | How Corrupt Is Congress? this corrupt... | Haggard Changes His Story Yet Again | RNCC May Face Fines For Violating "Do Not Call" Registry Rules | Rep. Flake On Cutting Congressional Pork | NH-02: NRCC Facing $100M Penalty for Illegal Robocalls | The GOP's corrupt robo-call barrage | Being a Good Liar, Mr. Ledeen, Requires a Good Memory
HOT POLITICS -- House Republicans already fighting and blaming each other for losing power | Is Harold Ford Closing in on Bob Corker? | The GOP descends into all-out civil war | WaPo: Democrats will win House | A coming sweep in Ohio? Looks that way... | GOP Losing Grip On FL-13, Congressional District Represented by Katherine Harris | Ohio Is America's Political "Elephant Graveyard" New Polls Show One-Third Voting Straight Democratic ticket | Time poll finds the GOP base is cracking | On the stump in Philly, Barack Obama outshines other Democratic stars and wows the crowd | New poll shows Tester forging ahead of Burns | Fate of GOP Incumbents Will Decide Senate | Voters Could Toss Out Gingrich Disciples | Idaho Governor's Race Surprisingly Tight | Sen. Obama Stumps for Ford in Tennessee | Ohio Senator Attacks Upset-Minded Brown | Krugman: Election 2006 all about Bush | Albatross Watch: GOP Candidate Skips Appearance With Bush | VA-Sen: The Democrats have game -- ground game! | On the Ground in Montana | All Republicans in Congress (including the so-called moderates) have enabled Bush's incompetence --and they must pay the price | Disillusioned America set to turn its back on Bush | GOP bracing for worst | Army National Guard, Reserve Face New Call-Ups To Iraq: We Have "Piecemealed Our Force To Death"
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- Al Gore: "We are facing a massive assault on our liberties" | Only 8% of Americans Support Iraq Strategy | Bush DHS to implement Durchlassschein system of exit permits
QWAGMIRE -- CIA: Karzai struggling to assert power, cannot contain Taliban | A failed Afghanistan may be another effect of invading Iraq | Tony Snow, White House forced by outcries to deny US was scheming to arrange for Saddam verdict before U.S. election | Half brother and third official will also hang with Saddam for killing 148 | National Guard braces for more call-ups | Germany blasts Saddam death sentence | UN: 100,000 Iraqis flee each month | Success Has A Thousand Fathers, Failure Just Has These Bastards... | Julius Caesar had Gaul; Bush just has gall | Bush again admits Iraq war is about the oil | Losses Color a Patriotic Town's View of the Iraq War
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- Iran may consider talking with U.S.
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- Preview: The Simpsons' Treehouse of Horror to satirize bungled Iraq war | Conservative pundits have launched into pre-election damage control | Gee, Matt Drudge -- why aren't you asking where Dennis Hastert is? | Is Tweety Matthews political TV' biggest douchebag? He claims Democratic victory will "look bad for the president and world diplomacy" | Does AP stand for Amatuer Press? Wire service reported litany of unchallenged GOP attacks on Dems; botched description of Kerry controversy | "Who will tell the people" department: Richard Perle cries foul on Vanity Fair, claims he "only agreed to tell the truth about Iraq" if it would not be published before the election | What do National[ist] Review, Rich Lowry, and the AEI have to say about Michael Ledeen's lie? | Cry, The Beloved Stupid Country: Right-wing Bloggers As Enablers for Disclosing WMD Plans | NY Times blasts GOP-controlled Congress | Stephanopoulos failed to challenge Cheney on so many falsehoods it's hard to say where to start
FOX WATCH -- How do you know Chris Wallace is lying? His lips move!
ELECTION THEFTS -- Make them steal your vote
OH, GOD! -- Evangelicals no longer lock for the GOP
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Missouri Catholics Declare Support For Stem Cell Research | Advocates of a California "parental notification" bill accuse Planned Parenthood of protecting sexual predators instead of teen girls. But who is really breaking the law?
GAY IN AMERICA -- Blogger flyers at Capitol prayer vigil, outs GOP gays

Nov. 5
• Dick Cheney Says He Would Probably Not Testify Before Congress, Even If Subpoenaed
• Soon to be well hung! Saddam Hussein sentenced to death; mandatory appeal process has kicked in
Half brother and third official will also hang for killing 148
• Bush Slips Up: Says "The Only Way We Can Win Is To Leave Before The Job Is Done"
• Cheney botches Kerry joke
• US Scientists warned Bush administration weeks ago that federal govt Web site contained nuclear secrets, but no one did a thing
Conservative publication: Bush, Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN), Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-MI), to blame for nuclear secrets being published on public Web site | Traitor: Sanotum's happy to give secrets away to the Internets | Failure: Bush policymakers have not only been helping recruit more terrorists, they've actually given them instructions via the Internet on how to build weapons of mass destruction | "This stuff ought to be out. Put this stuff out." | Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-MI), Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Pushed For Publication of Sensitive Nuclear Documents, Disingenuously Blames New York Times, IAEA
• Has Swiftboater Bob Perry's Free Enterprise Fund violated FCC harassment laws in Montana?
• Ted Haggard's church fires him
• Doctor To Demand Investigation Of Bill O'Reilly, KS Attorney General Over Access To Abortion Records
• GOP bracing for worst
Disillusioned America set to turn its back on Bush | Democrats, on the Offensive, Could Gain Both Houses | Outlook Grim For GOP | Poll: Last-ditch efforts by GOP failing
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- A set-up if ever there was one: Blogger Mike Stark handcuffed at Allen rally, led away | The man who thought he'd be King: whiny Ahmed Chalabi, whining whiner (and election rigger) | Latest Conrad Burns Scandal: Gave Judgeship To Donor One Day After Campaign Contribution | Rep. Dave Reichert (R-WA) Caught In Lie About Driver Who Flipped Bird To Bush | Reichert once bragged he ratted out bus driver | Being a Good Liar, Mr. Ledeen, Requires a Good Memory | Lawyer: Enough Evidence to Oust Hevesi | Is Rep. Curt Weldon (R-PA) pulling down some of his campaign TV ads so he can save campaign funds for his legal defense? | Colin Powell's Shame | How the Wurlitzer Works: A Coordinated Attack On Social Security, Democrats And The AARP | Fired investigators: Republicans had no appetite for oversight
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- Al Gore: "We are facing a massive assault on our liberties" | Why is Bush so afraid of our democratic process and rule of law? | Bush DHS to implement Durchlassschein system of exit permits
HOT POLITICS -- Why the VFW endorsement is now worthless | Bush, Cheney Have Wrought Worst Political Environment For Republicans Since Watergate | Army National Guard, Reserve Face New Call-Ups To Iraq: We Have "Piecemealed Our Force To Death" | Democrats Take on GOP Over Iraq Strategy | Time: Haggard scandal could reduce evangelical vote | Ford Vs. Corker: "The Most Captivating Senate Race In The Nation" | MT-Sen: Schweitzer Sets the Record Straight | Republicans Can't Handle The Big Ones | TX Gov. Candidate Kinky Friedman On Bush: "I Think George Is A Good Man Trapped In A Republican's Body" | The GOP Weekend From Hell | Republican Vern Buchanan's Iraq remark draws skeptical laughs | Bush Will Say Anything | Negative ads backfiring on GOP | Breaking with long-standing tradition, Condi is campaigning | Obama Tells MD Blacks to Vote on Issues | Conservative CT Clergy Group Endorses Lieberman For Anti-Gay Marriage Views | Slaying The Microtargeting/GOTV Dragon | DCCC launches attack ad against Musgrave | US military in Iraq fears catastrophic violence of Saddam found guilty
QWAGMIRE -- 1999 US Govt war games predicted 400,000 troops needed to invade Iraq, and even then chaos would ensue | It's all the fault of the Iraqi people | Dems blast Bush over top military papers calling for Rumsfeld to go | Cheney stumped, angered by Neocon defections | Cynical Dick Cheney: Iraq "May Not Be Popular With The Public, It Doesn't Matter" | Success Has A Thousand Fathers, Failure Just Has These Bastards... | Julius Caesar had Gaul; Bush just has gall | Bush again admits Iraq war is about the oil | Losses Color a Patriotic Town's View of the Iraq War | 2,829 dead, and Cheney says full speed ahead | Paper: U.S. speeds Korea attack plans | Paper: U.S. speeds Korea attack plans | Baghdad To Have Open-Ended Curfew In Anticipation Of Saddam Verdict | Iran test-fires 3 new missiles in Gulf | 7 US Troops Killed In Iraq
WAR CRIMES -- Bush wants judge to tell torture victims that they can't tell anyone what Bush did to them
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- More Right Wing Terrorism: Target Chuck Schumer
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- Thank you Pete Hoekstra and Pat Roberts! IAEA: Six Arab Countries Announce Nuclear Intentions
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- The Post-Star yanks endorsement of Rep. John Sweeney | Peter B. Collins and Brad Friedman to Co-Anchor Historic Election Night Marathon Meltdown-a-Palooza Broadcast! | Media treat nation to breathtakingly stupid feeding-frenzy over transparent GOP efforts to trick people into thinking John Kerry insulted the military and John Kerry is the Democratic Party | Blitzer failed to ID Matalin as Allen campaign adviser, even as she claimed that Democrats are "not going to win" VA Senate race | Rather: Memogate story was accurate | Borat On Bush: "We Say He Is Not Only A Wise Man, But Also Very Strong, Although Not As Strong As His Father Barbara"
FOX WATCH -- FOX election weekend propaganda marathon -- "Way more dangerous than Nazis"
$MIRKONOMICS -- GOP Congress gives military brass whopping pay raise, while troops on the ground gets next to nothing | World War II veterans enduring poverty
HOMELAND HIJINKS -- Advocates of a California "parental notification" bill accuse Planned Parenthood of protecting sexual predators instead of teen girls. But who is really breaking the law?
ELECTION THEFTS -- Make them steal your vote | Judges Reject Abu Gonzales's DoJ Call for Philly Election Monitors | Video: CNN special report on hackable Diebold machines
RACISM IN THE USA -- Ward Connerly, Leader of Michigan Initiative To End Affirmative Action, Welcomes Ku Klux Klan Support | Rep. Mark Souder (R-IN) is denouncing the phone bank calls made in support of his campaign by the NRCC because the live callers have such heavy Indian or Hispanic accents
TRASHING NATURE -- Greenhouse gases hit record high in 2005