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Hot Headlines, November 2006

Nov. 18
• Clear evidence 2006 congressional election was hacked
• Tasered UCLA student retains prominent civil rights lawyer, plans massive law suit
UCLA Students Demonstrate Against UCPD Taser Use | UCLA to review taser incident | Young Authoritarianist bigots in print: UCLA student columnist defends tasering of student, asks readers to send him Rodney King jokes | Still Proud To Be A Bruin? | Would UCLA have tasered Rosa Parks?
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- Jailed blogger could get year in prison
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- Convicted White House Official David Safavian Dodges Jail -- For Now | Mark Foley: "It's Just Been a Real Hard Time" | Hypocrite watch: James Inhofe flip-flops, was against the filibuster before he was for it... | Anti Robo Call Legislation To Be Introduced in PA, VA, CT | Pure comedy gold! Twice-divorced adulterer Rudy Giuliani prepares to sell himself to social conservatives | Sen. Patrick Leahy Calls On Justice Department To Investigate Laura Ingraham's Phone Jamming | Robo Callers Will Be Punished Under New Obama Bill | Schumer/Emanuel developing legislation to end deceptive robo-calls and other campaign scams
JUSTICE WATCH -- Judicial Showdown: Cheney Says Full Speed Ahead Appointing Conservative Judges | Dick Cheney at the Federalist Society last night -- translated by Glenn Greenwals | New Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell Tries To Threaten Dems Over Judicial Nominees
HOT POLITICS -- Liberals Aim to Ram the People's Agenda Through Congress | Mitt Romney Making Decision on Prez Run After Holidays | Howard Dean Basks in Glow of Democratic Wins | Bridge to Nowhere 2008: Oh, joy! Ted Stevens is running again! | FDA Lifts Ban On Silicone Breast Implants | NC-08: Robin Hayes Losing Votes and Mind today, Calls Our Military All Felons | Liberal advocacy groups see Democrats' takeover of Congress as chance for legislative wins | Karl Rove May Be Leaving The White House In Weeks, Not Months | GOP Insider predicts Republican bloodbath, says Bush is self-destructing | Aw, darn! Rick "The Virginian" Santorum won't run for president | TX-22: Sekula-Gibbs continues to make ass out of herself | David "Ice Cream kid" Ignatius: Why hasn't Pelosi fixed all our problems already? | GOP keeps same House leaders-- they are staying the course with Boehner and Blunt
QWAGMIRE -- Karzai: Afghanistan a threat to region | Army unit ordered to serve third tour in Iraq | US may be forced to pick side in Iraq | Cheney still wants to stay the course | Tony Blair: Iraq Is Pretty Much A Disaster | In Iraq, American hostage is killed; Two others freed | Blix: No. Korea on path to bomb | Coalition of the shrinking | Pentagon Claims Don Rumsfeld "Liberated" 50 Million In Iraq And Afghanistan | Costs of Iraq and Afghanistan set to top Vietnam War | Uh-oh! In Vietnam, Bush Repeats Kissinger: "We'll Succeed Unless We Quit"
WAR CRIMES -- Leahy Seeks Documents on CIA Detentions | Dem judiciary leader Patrick Leahy seeks torture documents
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM --"Hanging" Chad Castagana, infamous Freeper behind fake anthrax mailings, is out on $350,000 bond | New Book Details How Bin Laden's Master Spy Penetrated CIA, FBI And Green Berets
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- Bush gets shunned by South Korea | Diplomacy at long last: Syrian Officials and Iraq Study Group's James Baker Met, Envoy Says... Hold It... Isn't that Condi's Job?
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- The press: suckers for Lieberman | LA Times smacks down Carville | Funniest CNN moment, ever | Atrios nails it: 12 years later when they're out of power, CBSNews.com's editorial director decides it's time to tell people the truth about the Republican freaks who have been ruling us | Media focus on Murtha-Hoyer race, ignore Foley investigation's lack of impact on GOP leadership elections | One Week After McCain and Lieberman, Meet The Press To Feature Tester and Webb | Countdown nails "liberal" media bias on Pelosi | "Radical" Russ Belville: The Next Progressive Talk Radio Star | CNN's Jack Cafferty: Iraq Contractors Abducted Because Midterm Elections Left "Uncertainty And Lack Of Direction"
$MIRKONOMICS -- Home builders retreated on a massive scale in October
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Two Enron execs sentenced to jail | Law would take Ken Lay's assets
$OCIAL IN$ECURITY -- John McCain supports privatizing social security
ELECTION THEFTS -- Buchanan (R) wins FL-13 recount, Jennings (D) likely to sue Monday in court for a re-vote | Votes Still Being Counted in House Races
OH, GOD! -- Bizarre candidate "concession" urges Hindu winner to convert to Christianism
RACISM IN THE USA -- A pocket of segregation in American education is busted by the courts | By backing racist Minutemen, Republicans lost ground with Latinos in midterms
HEALTH DEBACLES -- President Bush to appoint abstinence-only activist to oversee reproductive services
TRASHING NATURE -- Colorado Town Approves Nation's First Carbon Tax To Reduce Gas Emissions | Sen. John Warner (R-VA) announced that he will challenge batsh!t-crazy sen. James Inhofe and seek the top Republican spot on the Environment and Public Works Committee | McCain: Bush Admin Breaks Laws to Hide Global Warming Data | Update: Inhofe Tipped to UN "Brainwashing" by Former Limbaugh Producer | Inhofe: Don't Worry About Global Warming Because "God's Still Up There"

Nov. 17
• Did Al Qaeda trick W into invading Iraq?
• Convoy of civilians, including 4 Americans contractors, hijacked in Iraq
Experts reassert: Iraq is a civil war | As Many As 80 Hostages Still Being Held In Iraq...Freed Hostages "Were Tortured And Suffered A Lot".
• House Democrats elect leaders: Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA8), Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD5), Majority Whip Jim Cluburn (D-SC6), DCCC Chair Rahm Emanuel (D-IL5), Vice-Caucus Chair John Larson (D-CT1)
• Sore Loserman! After getting burned at the polls, Sen. Conrad "Has-been" Burns says to "goddamn press" that "you think you run the place"
House Dems elect leaders; Hoyer gets Majority Leader by landslide | With GA results in, the GOP did not pick up a single governorship or House or Senate seat in the midterms | House Dems Formally Name Pelosi Speaker | Former GOP congresscritter "B1 Bob" Dornan: "I can't stand the thought of my party having as its three front-runners three open adulterers, Newt Gingrich, Giuliani, and McCain."
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- John Sweeney Scandal Beginning to Smell of Cover-Up: State Police may have faked a vague version of the original police report filed from the incident to protect Sweeney | New York State Police have demoted a 28-year veteran detective for essentially blowing the whistle on a Congressional abuser | Spitzer weighs NY State Senate boot for Hevesi | How Pastor Ted Got Outed | Brand New Tom DeLay Coverup: Shelley Sekula-Gibbs (R-TX22) wants an investigation into the destruction of computer files in her office by staffers she inherited from DeLay | Florida has opened a criminal investigation into former Rep. Mark Foley's emails to congressional pages | Reid: Robo Calls Make Legislative Hit List | Abramoff in with Dems? Former Colleagues Say No | Abramoff sends one last email | In Prison, Abramoff In Good Company | Mitt Romney hires race-baiting, extremist ad consultant
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- Will the Military Commission Act be rolled back? We are betting on Dodd... | Prominent right-wing Bolton blogger calls for murder of State Department officials | UCLA student captures tasering of student on video | History will not be kind to Bush, his trashing of the American way, and his Gitmo kangaroo courts | ACLU says UCLA taser cops are guilty of "illegal assault" on bystanders | Video shows police officer telling second student to leave or "you're gonna get tased too"
HOT POLITICS -- After Win, Democrats (Read: James Carville and Stan Greenberg) Revert to Finger-Pointing | Democrats have the mandate | One week later: the extent of massive Democratic win has begun to sink in | Bush Sets Two Records (Read: New Lows!) In Latest Pew Poll | NY-Gov: Eliot Spitzer rolls out star-powered transition team | Good Riddance To The Gingrichites | John Boehner (R-OH) has just been elected the new House Minority Leader (has a nice ring to it) | Ted Turner rips Rupert Murdoch | Rudy Giuliani Assembles High-Powered Donors | Hoyer win, Murtha loss, no big deal | Senate GOP Sets Media Spin In Motion: Lott's Racist Comments Are No Longer An Issue, 'Admire Him For Coming Back' | Outsized analysis on Congressional leadership races: does it matter? | Rep. Adam Putnam (R-FL12): "Rednecks didn't show up to vote for us" | TX-22: Heartwarming holiday story | Hotline: Rahm wants to bury hatchet with Dean | Delaware: A "50-State Strategy" case study | WaPo acts as if Pelosi is destroying the Democratic Party by backing Murtha | Athenae with a reality check for James Carville | Delusional: John Bolton predicts he'd win Senate vote on UN post | TX-23: Update from Texas | James Carville continues assault on Howard Dean, bashes "cult of DNC" (read: successful 50-state strategy) | Payback Time For Trent Lott; Frist And Rove Watch Out | 2 more House races decided, 7 remain undecided | Jack Murtha Responds: We've got the votes to make him whip
QWAGMIRE -- The so-called "last push" in Iraq: We're reaching the Clark Clifford moment | Steve Gilliard presents Iraq for Dummies | Iraq deadline quagmire: As some Dems talk withdrawal, the top U.S. commander asks for more time -- and troops | Congressman Kucinich calls for cutoff of Iraq funds | US death toll continues to mount -- 10 soldiers killed in past 2 days | Once again, Kissinger's myopia is guiding a failed war policy | Just Like 'Nam: Bush Wants "Last Big Push" Before We Lose Iraq -- More Troops, More Death, More Money. | Wounded Vets Have Payroll Problems | In a secret end run around Cheney and Rumsfeld, Condi Rice pressed Bush to back the Iraq Study Group -- and change the course of the war | GOP-controlled Senate just fine with more nukes in Asia! | Pentagon seeking $127b more for wars | George W. Bush, military genius (not)! | 2200 More U.S. Troops Headed To Iraq | Did Bush hijack the Iraq Study Group? | Feingold: We Should Challenge Generals Whose "Assessments -- Were Wrong" | Should US begin backing Shiites over Sunnis? | Increasing Troop Levels In Baghdad Made Violence Worse | Iraq ministry hostages feared tortured and killed | Sectarian Strife in Iraq Imperils Entire Region, Analysts Warn
TRAITORGATE -- Public to get look at Libby documents
WAR CRIMES -- WSJ: Gitmo Prosecution Official Quits | What do the Christianists believe about torture? They're all for it! | Marine Charged With Killing Iraqi Civilian Gets 18 Months
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Report: CIA says al-Qaeda's strength grows | Afghanistan and Al-Qaeda -- together again | Man arrested with nuke, cyanide data | "Powderfreeper" Chad Castagana and the Inevitable Fall of the Pajamahadeen
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- Sidney Blumenthal on the Neocons' last stand: They scurried off the sinking SS Bush, but are still trying to stop a reversal of his Middle East policy | Pathetic! Pajamahedeen starts fund drive to keep John Bolton at the UN | With Nomination Essentially Dead, John Bolton Launches Full-Court Press To Save His Job
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- From the paper that brought you Judy Miller: New York Times inexplicably says Dems are fingerpointing | Al Jazeera's new English channel: Not Coming Soon to a Channel Near You, But On the Web | Facts, lies, and David Horowitz's crony Richard Poe | The mindless group-think driving the media's caricatures of Nancy Pelosi is truly astounding to behold | Press Bias Against Pelosi and the Dems: Clinton Rules Redux | NY Times highlighted Democratic "finger-pointing and infighting" but downplayed contentious GOP leadership battles | Already the media is spinning a "The Failed Pelosi Speakership" | Right Winger "Pam Atlas" promotes murder | Clear Channel agrees to $18.7b buyout
FOX WATCH -- FOX News Revolt: Shep Smith Says Bush Politicization Of Iraq War Strategy "Disgusting" | Keith Olbermann puts the leaked FOX News memo in the spotlight | Busted: Billo Lied About Connection To Fox Broadcasting Over OJ Interview | O’Reilly blasts O.J. interview on FOX network... but then falsely claims "FOX Broadcasting has nothing to do with the FOXNews" | Culture Waffler: Will Bill O'Reilly say a word about Fox Television airing a sweeps special glorifying the murder fantasies of O.J. Simpson?
WHAT A RUSH! -- Watch this! Al Franken and Stephen Colbert mock Oxy-Rushbo!
$MIRKONOMICS -- Democrats Want To Raise Minimum Wage To $7.25 | Democrats Prepare to Raise Minimum Wage | Economist and libertarian hero Milton Friedman dies
ELECTION THEFTS -- ES&S -- the Midas Touch in reverse | Democrat Won't Seek Recount in Wyoming | FL-13: More shenanigans | Next Congress needs to finish the job on election reform | Ohio's 2006 vote count now includes a higher percentage of uncounted ballots than in 2004, and a statistically impossible swing to the Republicans
JUSTICE WATCH -- Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor: "Every member of the Supreme Court received a wonderful package of home-baked cookies, and I don't know why, the staff decided to analyze them. Each one contained enough po" | Fascists Gather for Confab: Supreme Court Justice Alito, Six Other Bush-Nominated Federal Judges Participating In Conservative Federalist Society Convention
RACISM IN THE USA -- So He's a Racist, So What? GOP Senators Say Lott's Racist Comments Didn't Come Up During Nomination For Minority Whip
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Gov. Tom Vilsack (D-IA) Promotes Renewable Energy | Congress Seen Passing Gas Price-Gouging Law
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Bush taps foe of reproductive choice to lead on family planning | Senators Urged to Add Teeth to FDA Bill | Enrollment Opens For Medicare Drug Plans
TRASHING NATURE -- Dumber'n'dirt Sen. James "P!ssquick" Inhofe: U.N. Climate Meeting Is "Brainwashing"
GAY IN AMERICA -- Pentagon Reclassifies Homosexuality From Mental Disorder To "Circumstance" Such As Bed-Wetting, Fear Of Flying | Regressive IL Parents Try To Censor Gay Penguin Book

Nov. 16
• Fair and balanced? Alleged Fox News internal memo shows hostility to Democrats
Keith Olbermann puts the leaked FOX News memo in the spotlight
• Just Like 'Nam: Bush Wants "Last Big Push" Before We Lose Iraq -- More Troops, More Death, More Money.
The so-called "last push" in Iraq: We're reaching the Clark Clifford moment | Steve Gilliard presents Iraq for Dummies | Iraq deadline quagmire: As some Dems talk withdrawal, the top U.S. commander asks for more time -- and troops
• Democrats have the mandate
One week later: the extent of massive Democratic win has begun to sink in | Rep.-elect Keith Ellison (D-MN) snubs Preznit, and goes to AFL-CIO event instead | Watch Howard Dean put Li'l Jimmy Carville in his place: "This is some kind inside-the-Beltway silliness." | Does Rahm Emanuel deserve credit for the Democrats' 2006 House victory – or does the credit belong elsewhere? | Athenae with a reality check for James Carville | Delusional: John Bolton predicts he'd win Senate vote on UN post | TX-23: Update from Texas | James Carville continues assault on Howard Dean, bashes "cult of DNC" (read: successful 50-state strategy) | Payback Time For Trent Lott; Frist And Rove Watch Out | 2 more House races decided, 7 remain undecided | Jack Murtha Responds: "We've got the votes" to make him majority leader | Pharma sellout: Former "Health" [sic]Secretary "Toxic"Tommy Thompson To Run For President | Rise of the Libertarian Left in the Mountain West | Tom "Dixie" DeLay brings up all your favorite Confederate stereotypes as he praises (yes, praises) Nancy Pelosi | The new Democratic members of the House meet the Prez | With her bold endorsement of Iraq critic Jack Murtha to be her second in command, incoming House speaker Nancy Pelosi is already putting her authority to the test. | Jack Murtha: Conscience and cojones of the Democrats | Updated: DeLay's staff all resign office of short-term TX-22 Rep. Sekula-Gibbs | Steve Kornacki predicts that the press will depict Nancy Pelosi – who is actually an adept insider – as weak when Murtha does not become House Majority Leader | As Kos sez, "Boy, that Jim Webb. Such a conservative!" (NOT!!!) | CT-02: Democrat "Landslide Joe" Courtney wins by 91 votes, ousting Republican incumbent Rob Simmons | Bring back the bigot! Trent Lott Bids for Return to Senate Leadership | NYT: "Miffed" Lieberman wields enormous Senate power
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- Poor, Poor Jack Abramoff Bemoans "Nightmare" of Minimum Security Prison | Murtha and ABSCAM: TPMMuckraker Details What Really Happened | The End of The Robo Call? | Rep. John Murtha flies off the handle, says Dem ethics reform is "Total Crap" | Liz Holtzmann: The People's Case for Impeaching Bush | Mitt Romney hires race-baiting, extremist ad consultant | MN State Rep. Mark Olson (R) In Jail After Domestic Assault Arrest | Blackmail & Bobby Gates
TRAITORGATE -- White House seeks dismissal of Traitorgate CIA leak suit
BIG-BROTHER-GATE --
HOT POLITICS --
QWAGMIRE -- Congressman Kucinich calls for cutoff of Iraq funds | US death toll continues to mount -- 10 soldiers killed in past 2 days | Once again, Kissinger's myopia is guiding a failed war policy | Wounded Vets Have Payroll Problems | BAM! General John Abizaid Smacks Down McCain's Plan To Send More U.S. Troops To Iraq | "Iraqis understand where this is going and they are hedging their bets" | Official: US may mull pre-emptive Iran strike | Bush Vietnam Trip Revives Iraq Quagmire | Just as a poll says Americans have been bamboozled by the "liberal" press into thinking Democrats have no Iraq plan... | Senate Democrats intent to get tough on Iraq – starting now | Iraq ministry hostages feared tortured and killed | Sectarian Strife in Iraq Imperils Entire Region, Analysts Warn | Reid Pledges To Press Bush On Iraq Policy | Iraqi government says 70 released after Baghdad kidnap | Preventing Future Wars: Start with the Obvious | Iraq Study Group: "We, including Democrats, are setting ourselves up for some closure that doesn't exist." | Reid: Iraq is the priority
WAR CRIMES -- What do the Christianists believe about torture? They're all for it! | Marine Charged With Killing Iraqi Civilian Gets 18 Months
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Afghanistan and Al-Qaeda -- together again | "Powderfreeper" Chad Castagana and the Inevitable Fall of the Pajamahadeen
BORDER BUNGLES --
FAULTY INTELLIGENCE --
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- Sidney Blumenthal on the Neocons' last stand: They scurried off the sinking SS Bush, but are still trying to stop a reversal of his Middle East policy | As Bush Goes To Vietnam, White House Website Displays The Wrong Flag
OPERATION YELLOW ELEPHANT! --
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- Al Jazeera's new English channel: Not Coming Soon to a Channel Near You, But On the Web | The problem with Judy Miller: she is the last journalist who should be whining about blogger "standards" | Important/Hilarious Sekula-Gibbs Update From Wonkette: WaPo was present as staff quit en masse -- and didn't report it! | Conservative commentators are none too happy with new RNC chair, incumbents... | Is James Carville Rahm Emanuel's Sockpuppet? | English Al-Jazeera expects 'scrutiny' | Richard Cohen vs. Howard Dean:in 2003, guess which one was right about Iraq?
FOX WATCH -- Culture Waffler: Will Bill O'Reilly say a word about Fox Television airing a sweeps special glorifying the murder fantasies of O.J. Simpson? | Survey Refutes James Pinkerton's Insane Claim that Media Depict Pelosi as "Moderate Grandmother" from Baltimore
WHAT A RUSH! --
$MIRKONOMICS --
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Richard Causey, Last Enron Exec. On Trial, Sentenced To Five And A Half Years In Prison, $1.25 Million Fine
DEAD DUBAI DEAL --
TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION -- CBS plays into GOP propaganda, asks"Will Taxes Rise With Dems In Congress?"
BUDGET MESS --
$OCIAL IN$ECURITY --
DISASTROUS RESPONSE --
HOMELAND HIJINKS --
ELECTION THEFTS -- Ohio's 2006 vote count now includes a higher percentage of uncounted ballots than in 2004, and a statistically impossible swing to the Republicans | NC-08: Republicans move to disenfranchise voters
JUSTICE WATCH -- Bush To Usher In New Era Of Bipartisanship... By Renominating Controversial Judicial Nominees!
GUNS! GUNS!! GUNS!!! --
FILEGATE.GOP --
EDUCATION IN THE SMIRK AGE --
OH, GOD! --
RACISM IN THE USA --
MORALITY MORONICS --
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Big Oil Must Face Tougher Congress
HEALTH DEBACLES --
WEIRD SCIENCE --
TRASHING NATURE -- The coming change in leadership of a key Senate committee could finally help the US get its head out of the sand on climate change
JEBBIE'S BANANA REPUBLIC --
KAHLEEFAUNIA DREAMIN' --
GAY IN AMERICA --

Nov. 15
• An "American source" allegedly paid terrorist organizations $2 million (money that bought weapons that killed Israelis) for release of FOX News reporters
FOX NEWS INTERNAL MEMO: "Be On The Lookout For Any Statements From The Iraqi Insurgents...Thrilled At The Prospect Of A Dem Controlled Congress" | More Partisan Attacks on Nancy Pelosi Courtesy of FOX News | O'Reilly Loofah-gate Opera: Much, Much Better Than Cats | Bill "Falafel" O'Reilly Revives The War On Christmas
• Bring back the bigot! Trent Lott Bids for Return to Senate Leadership
The Senate Leaders: Reid, Byrd, Durbin, Schumer, Murray, Dorgan, Stabenow, Bingaman, Clinton, Lincoln, Boxer | Does Rahm Emanuel deserve credit for the Democrats' 2006 House victory – or does the credit belong elsewhere? | Dated Kerry, married Dean: Who won the election for Democrats last week? | Dems Get MT House, Senate | Wasting no time, Senate Democrats name leaders | Tom "Dixie" DeLay brings up all your favorite Confederate stereotypes as he praises (yes, praises) Nancy Pelosi | The new Democratic members of the House meet the Prez | With her bold endorsement of Iraq critic Jack Murtha to be her second in command, incoming House speaker Nancy Pelosi is already putting her authority to the test. | Jack Murtha: Conscience and cojones of the Democrats | Updated: DeLay's staff all resign office of short-term TX-22 Rep. Sekula-Gibbs | Steve Kornacki predicts that the press will depict Nancy Pelosi – who is actually an adept insider – as weak when Murtha does not become House Majority Leader | As Kos sez, "Boy, that Jim Webb. Such a conservative!" (NOT!!!) | CT-02: Democrat "Landslide Joe" Courtney wins by 91 votes, ousting Republican incumbent Rob Simmons | NYT: "Miffed" Lieberman wields enormous Senate power | CT-2: Democrat Wins U.S. House Seat in Conn. | Shakeup At The Washington Post (but will they permanently evict Sally Quinn?) | Inside NH-1: Carol Shea-Porter Crashing the Gate | The Iraq Study Group to nowhere | IL-14: Will Hastert become a back-bencher? | Conservative Mag: Bush Will Keep Rove Until The End: "He Knows Too Much" | One Freshman Lawmaker Sworn in Early | Lieberman to chair Homeland Security Committee | Anticipated Democratic Senate committee assignments | Democrats want Trent Lott to kick around again -- and it looks like the GOP will oblige | Mel Martinez: he's the Harriet Miers of RNC Chairs, per right-wing blogs | There goes that narrative again! CBS turns Democratic victory, opportunity into "Peril" | WA-08, OH-15, CT-02: Burner concedes, Kilroy still fighting, slimmest of leads in CT | Plan early: the preliminary 2008 House target list | Update: In FL-13, Court Battle Begins As Counting Continues | House Insider: Nancy Pelosi "Will Ensure" Rep. John Murtha Wins Leadership Race
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- Liz Holtzmann: The People's Case for Impeaching Bush | Abramoff reportedly set to turn in Democratic senators, Rove | There is convincing evidence out there that Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA) unethically used his congressional staff to aid his reelection campaign | Ohio Struggles to Forget Felon Ex-Congressman Bob Ney | On Michael Steele, GOP Bamboozler | Blackmail & Bobby Gates | Lobbyist Jack Abramoff to Report to Prison | MN State Rep. Mark Olson (R) is the latest legislator/accused domestic abuser | Rumors fly: DeLay's staff dismissed by short-term substitute Rep | Huckabee Defends "Wedding" Gift Registry | Newly Elected Conservative Rep Bachmann: "My No. 1 Goal Is To Not Go To Jail"
TRAITORGATE -- White House seeks dismissal of Traitorgate CIA leak suit | The coming change in leadership of a key Senate committee could finally help the US get its head out of the sand on climate change | Dems To Launch "A Very Long Process Of Extensive Hearings" On Global Warming
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- The Bush administration's treatment of Ali Saleh Kahlah Al-Marri ought to be shocking and horrifying
QWAGMIRE -- Official: US may mull pre-emptive Iran strike | Bush Vietnam Trip Revives Iraq Quagmire | Just as a poll says Americans have been bamboozled by the "liberal" press into thinking Democrats have no Iraq plan... | Senate Democrats intent to get tough on Iraq – starting now | Intelligence sources question independence of Bob Gates from Cheney, Rumsfeld | Senator-Elect Jim Webb (D-VA) on Larry King Live: 110th Congress, not lame-duck, no-mandate GOP legislature, should vote on gates nomination | Reid Pledges To Press Bush On Iraq Policy | Iraqi government says 70 released after Baghdad kidnap | Preventing Future Wars: Start with the Obvious | Iraq Study Group: "We, including Democrats, are setting ourselves up for some closure that doesn't exist." | Reid: Iraq is the priority | Bad idea: Pentagon •could take lead role• in disasters | DoJ Takes The Military Commissions Act Out For a Spin | The Iraq Study Group to nowhere | Well, well: Iraqi police commanders were involved in abduction of 150 people today | Kidnapping Of Up To 150 Govt. Employees In Baghdad May Be Linked To Iraqi Police Officials | Frist's Post-Election Revelation: We Are Not Winning In Iraq | Our wise national security guardians: total morons | For the Record: Baghdad Murder Rate Is 160 Times Greater Than Philadelphia
WAR CRIMES -- CIA acknowledges existence of presidential order authorizing it to detain, interrogate terror suspects overseas | Civil Rights Groups File Suit Against Rumsfeld For "Personally" Ordering And Condoning Torture
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- As Bush Goes To Vietnam, White House Website Displays The Wrong Flag | Plutonium Traces Found In Iran...International Atomic Energy Agency Asks For Explaination
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- Howie Kurtz continuing pattern of using questions to advance GOP talking points and suggest "liberal media bias" | He's so last century: Former president Bush blames bloggers (as opposed to, say, Karl Rove) for ugly political climate | English Al-Jazeera expects 'scrutiny' | Richard Cohen vs. Howard Dean:in 2003, guess which one was right about Iraq? | Media Matters review: Scant media coverage of conservative blogger's arrest for anthrax scare, score of reports on liberal blogger's run-in with Allen campaign | Wolf Blitzer baselessly promoted McCain, Graham as "a little bit of mavericks" | Is Mark Halperin the most biased, stupid political pundit on US network TV? | WaPo Falsely Claims Most Congressional Democrats Oppose Redeployment of U.S. Troops | "As with McCain, the media is Giuiliani's base" | Jon Stewart pays tribute to the newfound sense of bipartisanship enveloping Washington
TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION -- CBS plays into GOP propaganda, asks"Will Taxes Rise With Dems In Congress?"
BUDGET MESS -- Do-nothing Congress Unlikely to Wrap Up Budget Work
ELECTION THEFTS -- Undecided House races winnable by Dems; challenges planned | Denver elections official resigns | Update: In FL-13, Court Battle Begins As Counting Continues
OH, GOD! -- "Half-year hell" with US Christian evangelicals
GAY IN AMERICA -- Did the Human Rights Campaign Try to Cover Up the Mark Foley Story?

Nov. 14
• Domestic Terrorist Chad Conrad Castagana, Arrested For Powder-filled Death Threat Letters To Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, David Letterman, Jon Stewart
• ... and he's an active Free Republic poster!
White powder sent to Air America | more: FBI Nabs Suspect in Olbermann's Fake Anthrax Letter Case | Sadly, No! on Castagana, the Wingnut Arrested In Fake Anthrax Terror Scheme | RadarOnline gets FBI's Castagana affidavit – plus excerpts from his letters!
• Pentagon without budget watchdog for over a year
• Jury finds Tom Noe guilty in Ohio Coingate case
MD-Sen: The story behind the Ehrlich-Steele calculated effort to lie to voters | Bush pick for RNC chief under FEC finance investigations | In Back Rooms, John Murtha Fought Against Reform | Conservative direct mail guru Richard Viguerie summarizes the Tom DeLay crowd brilliantly | Robert Gates-Gate | Scandal-tainted Rep. Jerry Lewis's Top Approps Spot May Be Threatened | The nasty RNC robocalls worked | MD GOPers Caught Off Guard, Thought They Could Get Away With Homeless Stunt | Richard Perle Insists That Saddam Had Ties To Al Qaeda Because He's "Seen The Evidence" | C'mon, Harry! Knock it off! LA Times: Through Earmark, Reid Boosts His Land Value
TRAITORGATE -- Scooter Libby Allowed To Use Classified Info To Bolster His Case That He Can't Remember Details Of Plame Leak
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- Bush Admin: Detainees Have No Rights
HOT POLITICS -- Sen. Mel Martinez To Lead RNC | ... You remember Mel, architect of the Terri Schiavo mess | Pakistan Link Seen in Afghan Suicide Attacks | Ground broken for MLK memorial | A Texan Speaks to Speaker Pelosi: We hired you to STOP the President | The insufferable Trent Lott (R-MS) is running for Senate minority whip post | Giuliani -- he's new, he's improved -- and did he mention 9/11? | Bob Reich recommends some next, fast steps for Dems to take -- with an eye to 2008 | CA-11: Dem boots Pombo in "Rahm-free" race | Rudy Giuliani takes step toward losing 2008 run | MO-Sen, MT-Sen analysis: Bush killed GOP momentum | Sen. Elizabeth Dole Stops Spinning, Explains Why GOP Lost: "It Was Just Too Massive To Overcome" | Sen. Clinton Outlines Legislative Priorities | How low can Bush go? | MN-Sen: Starting early | Barbara Bush: First Daughter, First Drinker, National Embarrassment | The face of the Blue West: meet Jon Tester
QWAGMIRE -- Dozens snatched in mass kidnap at Iraq Education Ministry | Top Marine: There was "no plan" for post-Saddam Iraq | Why speculating on what "we" can do to Fix Iraq is meaningless | 20 Iraqis killed; 150 abducted in Baghdad | Cheney doesn't need Rumsfeld anymore | Iran to achieve "full nuclear" technology by March | Sen. Levin (D-MI) offers plan for Iraq redeployment | Ken Adelman: Rumsfeld has been in deep, deep denial | Iraq war architect Douglas Feith says Rummy is "misunderstood" | Iraq Study Group Visits Bush Jr. | Violence around Iraq claims 25 lives | Gunmen abduct 50 from Iraq buses
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Joint Chiefs Chairman: Administration Is Pursuing Same Terrorism Policy Bush Trashed In 2004
BORDER BUNGLES -- Republican-Led Panel Tries To Link Abortion To Illegal Immigration
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- Bush's Vietnam Trade Deal Dealt A Blow | Bush Calls for Global Isolation of Iran
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- Memo to humorless churlette and phone-jamming orchestrator Laura Ingraham: It Was a Joke | Media bias on congressional probes: remember 1994, when newt demanded hearings? | CBS's biased correspondent Cheryl Attkisson has adopted GOP term "death tax" while reporting on the estate tax | Lazy, biased, or both? Tim Russert claimed Reid and Pelosi declined Meet the Press invitations, but he apparently asked no other Democrats | David Gregory Is -- Catch This! -- Unsure Whether Lying Damages Bush's Credibility With Press | Media Matters tells the tale of two TIME covers | Judith Miller in court again, this time in Israeli torture case | ABC should have fired Cokie years ago... | Newsweek drinks the GOP Kool-Aid, Says 2006 Election Was In No Uncertain Terms An Endorsement of Former President Bush | Gannett mulling ChiTrib bid | NBC Cuts 17 Jobs At Dateline | TIME misinterprets the "move to the center"
ELECTION THEFTS -- 18,000 Votes Missing From Florida Election | In Ohio's 15th CD, Democrat Kilroy keeps up the pressure to count all the ballots | Recount starts in the very suspicious 13th CD in Florida
TRASHING NATURE -- Regressive GOP Senator James Inhofe Attacks Children's Book on Global Warming

Nov. 13
Newsweek exposes Karl "The Architurd" Rove as for what he is: a gifted hack who blew it this time around | Steve Gilliard speculates Cheney will resign | Rove believed in his metrics. He miscalculated. How did Bush's guru get the numbers so wrong? | Genius no more: GOP miffed at Rove's bungling of 2006 election | LA-02 Runoff: Blue Majority Backs Karen Carter over Bill Jefferson | George H. W.: "After 14 Years No One Forgets If You Throw Up On The Japanese Premiere" | Pelosi Backs Murtha for Majority Leader | The GOP Civil War: Rumsfeld Should Have Been Fired Before The Election | Sequoia Voting System Glitch Failure Means Votes Counted Twice in NJ County | Rove says GOP loss of House and Senate was no big deal | New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson Hints At Presidential Bid | Steny Hoyer (D-MD) says he has the votes to be the next House Majority Leader | Only on FOX: smears of liberal blogs | Sen. Biden: I Will Run For President In 2008 | Green, As In GOP Cash: Did Green Party cost Democrats control of Michigan Senate? | Hey, ex-Republican staffer -- out of work? A new career awaits you... | The Democrats won -- but they shouldn't for a second let victory cause them to forget -- or not try to permanently shut down -- the Republicans' dirty tricks operation | Even in victory, the American people can be so clueless
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- Gibbons assault investigation: Metro Police have subpoenaed telephone records of Republican Gov.-elect Jim Gibbons, political strategist Sig Rogich and other witnesses | How to Create a Congressional District Impeachment Committee | White House Chuckles as It Stabs Dems in Back: More on the John Bolton Nomination Story | Michael Steele, Discredited and Failed MD GOP Guv Candidate, Interested in Heading RNC | GOP gov-elect Jim Gibbons (NV) involved in obstruction of justice? | Bush's Belated Accountability Moment
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- Patrick Leahy aims at restoring habeas corpus | Bush "proud" that elections weren't cancelled | Lame-duck Congress unlikely to authorize Bush's warrantless terrorism wiretaps
QWAGMIRE -- Despite Billions, Privatized Reconstruction of Iraq Is a Failure | Bush owns the failed Iraq mess -- and the Iraq Study group's findings -- and Democrats should not buy in | Rep. Ike Skelton (D-MO4), Chairman of the Armed Services Committee, will resurrect the subcommittee on oversight and investigations | Iraq Study Group to read Team Bush the riot act on Monday | Rumsfeld: Delusional, in denial | Democrats increase pressure on Bush for phased troop withdrawal | Bus bomb kills 20 in Baghdad | Democrats pressure Bush to withdraw from Iraq | Violence In Iraq Kills At Least 159 | Report: Afghan Insurgency Has Quadrupled In Last Year. | GOP miffed with Dim Son W for waiting until after election to oust Donald Rumsfeld | Iraq PM Plans Cabinet Shake-Up | Makin' good progress: Savage warlords dominate in Iraq | When Condi knifed Rummy... or how the Secretary of State disposed of the Secretary of Defense (and Cheney) | For Texas battalion, casualties come one after another in Iraq | Sectarian Rifts Foretell Pitfalls of Iraqi Troops' Taking Control | Tasteless and Tacky: Veterans Day Messages from Troops In Iraq, Filmed By Defense Dept., Feature Replica of Twin Towers | Bush spins Rumsfeld's replacement as some kind of agent of change (translation; we're gonna cut and run from our old Iraq policy) | Bomber kills 33 at Iraq police recruiting center; death toll expected to climb
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Man Arrested For Death Threats To Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, David Letterman, Jon Stewart | ... and he's an active Free Republic poster! | Saudi Official: No Doubt That Iraq Now Forms A Main Base For Terrorism | Bush claims elections won't change "US" resolve in "war on terror"
BORDER BUNGLES -- Democratic victory might allow them to take credit when they act on an immigration plan
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- Bush must be told: talk to your enemies | AIPAC... er, US vetoes resolution condemning Israel
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- Don't want to make him look bad, wouldn't be prudent: Bush Daddy's tasteless, lame joke on pro choice protestor cut from AP story at most sites | TV's Craig Ferguson Salutes Rumsfeld | Keith Olbermann: Cable news's angry, articulate everyman taps a well of discontent | John Edwards's New Book Ignites Speculation Of 2008 Presidential Run | Bob Cesca Thinks It's Time A Few Conservatives Help Themselves To a Big Ol' Cup Of "Shut The F#@% Up!" | Re-framing the Election: Rachel Maddow nails it | Gotta see it: Bill Maher's Post-Election Opening Monologue | The smearing of John Conyers begins
WHAT A RUSH! -- Scoobie has OxyRushbo's new nickname!
$MIRKONOMICS -- Democrats beat Bush with an economy drive -- a frugal and protectionist stance that helped it win votes as America teeters on the brink of a recession
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Unions have high expectations of Democrats | Enron's Fastow assigned to Louisiana lockup
ELECTION THEFTS -- Jeb! Bush Admits Problems with Florida U.S. House Race Featuring 18,000 Missing Votes | ES&S Hack Boxes Fail Again! More Votes than Voters in Arkansas, Thousands of Votes Missing in Florida and Zero Votes Recorded for One Mayoral Candidate
JUSTICE WATCH -- New Democratic Majority Will Say "No Way, Smirké" to Bush's Judicial Extremist Nominations
OH, GOD! -- Sooo... Ted Haggard's Gay Trysts Had Been Covered Up By Fearful, Hypocrite Dominionist Leaders For Months | Evangelical Right Out In the Political Cold, Humiliated by Scandals Driven By Their Own Narrow, Regressive View of Sexuality | Report: "Lots of" religious right leaders knew #1 evangelical leader, Ted Haggard, was gay long before the scandal - and did nothing about it
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Democrats' return to power presses GOP to accept limited expansion of offshore drilling
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Vets at Higher Risk for ALS? Preliminary results of a study say yes | Dan Bartlett: Medicare Doesn't Need To Negotiate Lower Prices Because Drugs Are Already Cheap Enough

Nov. 12
• Mandate 2006: Democratic Agenda Has Massive National Support
• The Agenda's Initial Roll-out: 100 Hours of Legislative Help Is On the Way
Feingold Rules Out Run for President | MSNBC online poll: 87% say Bush's actions justify his impeachment | Newsweek: Bush approval is at 31% -- an all-time low! | Green, As In GOP Cash: Did Green Party cost Democrats control of Michigan Senate? | Hey, ex-Republican staffer -- out of work? A new career awaits you... | The Democrats won -- but they shouldn't for a second let victory cause them to forget -- or not try to permanently shut down -- the Republicans' dirty tricks operation | Even in victory, the American people can be so clueless | Democrats Now Look to Sustain Majority | NY Times Interprets Mandate: Incoming Democrats Put Populism Before Ideology | Exporting the 50 State Policy: Labour Party Recruits Dr. Howard Dean as Adviser For UK May Elections | In Senate races, the Democrats crushed GOP in the popular vote |WA-08: It's going to be a while... | Kevin Drum turns post-election mythbuster, destroying the instant analysis | Someone, please explain why exactly anyone takes Carville seriously?
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- How to Create a Congressional District Impeachment Committee | Grover Norquist confirms his allegiance to the He-man Woman Haters Club | Bush's Belated Accountability Moment
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- Lame-duck Congress unlikely to authorize Bush's warrantless terrorism wiretaps
QWAGMIRE -- Rumsfeld: Delusional, in denial | Bomber kills 33 at Iraq police recruiting center; death toll expected to climb | For Texas battalion, casualties come one after another in Iraq | Sectarian Rifts Foretell Pitfalls of Iraqi Troops' Taking Control | Tasteless and Tacky: Veterans Day Messages from Troops In Iraq, Filmed By Defense Dept., Feature Replica of Twin Towers | Bush spins Rumsfeld's replacement as some kind of agent of change (translation; we're gonna cut and run from our old Iraq policy) | Bob Gates Was "Distraught Over The Incompetence Of How The Iraq Operation Had Been Run" On Summer Baghdad Visit...
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Bush claims elections won't change "US" resolve in "war on terror" | Mission Possible: U.S. spies stage London sting
BORDER BUNGLES -- Democratic victory might allow them to take credit when they act on an immigration plan
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- Bush must be told: talk to your enemies | AIPAC... er, US vetoes resolution condemning Israel
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- How the Beltway media and CMW (Conservative Mighty Wurlitzer) transform myth into Conventional Beltway Wisdom | Re-framing the Election: Rachel Maddow nails it | Gotta see it: Bill Maher's Post-Election Opening Monologue | The smearing of John Conyers begins | Cro-Magnon Political TV: First Meet The Press After Midterm Election Sweep Will Feature Two Pro-Iraq Non-Democrats | Racism at Investor's Business Daily | Matt "Sidney Blumenthal beat his wife with Bill Clinton's love child – or was it Kerry's intern?"Drudge may rule the Beltway Media's world, but... | Did Scarborough drop an F-Bomb? Um, yes he did!
WHAT A RUSH! -- Scoobie has OxyRushbo's new nickname! | Democrats give credit to Rush Limbaugh for helping them win the Senate
$MIRKONOMICS -- Democrats beat Bush with an economy drive -- a frugal and protectionist stance that helped it win votes as America teeters on the brink of a recession
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Enron's Fastow assigned to Louisiana lockup
ELECTION THEFTS -- Elections Say the Darndest Things: Lieberman Senate Opponents Receive Exact Same Number of Votes in 2006 as in 2000 | Election Protection Saved the Day – But What Might a Clean Election Have Netted for Dems? | Voting Irregularity (and a little more) Comes to Mind | Over $200,000 in postage on absentee ballot?
JUSTICE WATCH -- New Democratic Majority Will Say "No Way, Smirké" to Bush's Judicial Extremist Nominations | Judicial independence still under fire from right
OH, GOD! -- Sooo... Ted Haggard's Gay Trysts Had Been Covered Up By Fearful, Hypocrite Dominionist Leaders For Months | Report: "Lots of" religious right leaders knew #1 evangelical leader, Ted Haggard, was gay long before the scandal - and did nothing about it
RACISM IN THE USA -- Racism at Investor's Business Daily
TRASHING NATURE -- Carbon emissions grow out of control