Eric Florack on November 11th, 2007

Found at Donklephant:

Frum:

“Just noticed that Andrew Sullivan opines that I am “rattled” by Paul’s haul. Personally, I think it is Andrew who has been “rattled” by being caught in yet another of his careless or reckless errors

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Eric Florack on November 9th, 2007

WASHINGTON – The Senate confirmed retired judge Michael Mukasey as attorney general Thursday night to replace Alberto Gonzales, who was forced from office in a scandal over his handling of the Justice Department.

So at the end of the day,

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Eric Florack on November 8th, 2007

Bruce at Q&O:

  A and an week or so ago, I stated:

We read that polls are telling the Democrats that the mood of the people has swung toward being receptive to more and bigger government. Some argue it’s

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Eric Florack on November 7th, 2007

Gotta love Glenn’s comment about Pat Robertson and Rudy Giuliani, today.

“Evangelical Christian leader Pat Robertson on Wednesday endorsed former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani.” Well, it’s only fair — Hillary has to deal with the Mondale endorsement . .

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Yeas and Nays:

On today’s “The Situation Room,” Sen. Hillary Clinton opened up about her widely-discussed performance during last week’s MSNBC debate. (You can watch the video here on Breitbart.tv)

“I wasn’t at my best the other night,” Clinton

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Eric Florack on November 7th, 2007

Captain Ed notes, , the Mukasey vote, yesterday:

The Senate Judiciary Panel reported Michael Mukasey’s nomination to the full Senate today, recommending confirmation by an 11-8 vote. Chuck Schumer and Dianne Feinstein voted to support , as announced earlier,

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Eric Florack on November 6th, 2007

False Confessions They’ve always been the point of torture, and always will be.

In a CIA sub-station close to al Libi’s jail cell, the CIA’s “debriefers,” who had been talking to al Libi for days after his return from Cairo,

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davidl on November 6th, 2007

Mr. and Mrs. Clinton

Alas poor Tim Russert.   First Linda Hirshman  analogized Russert to Adolf Hiter.  Now,  and maybe even worse,  former president B.J. Clinton compares Russert to  John O’Neill

‘Rat folklore holds that John Kerry would be Presidnet but for the evil of

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Eric Florack on November 6th, 2007

Sister Toldjah says in a post from yesterday:

The discussions over Hillary Clinton’s use of the victim card after her poor performance at last week’s Democratic presidential candidate debate haven’t died down. In fact, they seem to be intensifying.

There’s

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Eric Florack on November 5th, 2007

Michelle notes that to get the story of what’s happening in Iraq, you need to turn to the newspapers… in Austrailia.

IT is whispered about at the margins of meetings, and discussed in Washington parties where rumour is passed around

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Eric Florack on November 4th, 2007

Apparently, the press is desperate to get something in the paper to push Norman Hsu off the front page, and for the ability to say “They have crimnials too”. Via Memeorandum, The WaPo is an example:

Republican presidential candidate Fred

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Eric Florack on November 2nd, 2007

Doctor Charles Krauthammer, this morning, over at Real Clear Politics, by way of Memeorandum:

Doctor Charles KrauthammerThe problem is Bill. But not the way it is usually understood, i.e., the sex scandal waiting to happen. There is that, of course. But

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Eric Florack on October 30th, 2007

Mike Goldfarb at the Weekly Standard:

The Wall Street Journal reports on the stunning success of Representative John Murtha in channeling taxpayer dollars to pork-barrel projects in his district, including awards for companies under FBI investigation and others which show

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WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 —NY TIMES- State Department investigators offered Blackwater USA security guards immunity during an inquiry into last month’s deadly shooting of 17 Iraqis in Baghdad — a potentially serious investigative misstep that could complicate efforts to prosecute the

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Jessica Holzer over at The Hill

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) unveiled a sweeping tax overhaul on Thursday that he hailed as a fairer way to spread tax relief, but Republicans attacked the move as a

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