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AP
Feingold Accuses Democrats of 'Cowering'

Excerpt:
"Democrats run and hide" when the administration invokes the war on terrorism, Feingold told reporters.

H.L.s Take:
Feingold is the only Democrat with any Damn balls, and if the Dems. don't run him for Pres. in 2008, they have no shot (that means you Hilary)


AP
GOP Not Meeting Promises in Budget Week

Excerpt:
WASHINGTON - It's a busy, unhappy budget week on Capitol Hill. At a time when Republicans are eager to prove their mettle on spending restraint, their deeds are falling far short of their election-year promises.
The House is poised to pad the deficit by passing $91 billion in debt-financed funding for the war in Iraq and for hurricane relief, while the Senate is working on a budget plan shorn of tax and spending cuts wanted by President Bush.


H.L.s Take:
The Republicans are the tax cut and spend party. They figure its better then being the tax and spend party becuase people don't like paying taxes, and by the time the bill comes due they will all be dead.



Huffington Post
Karen Kwiatkowski
Big, Bad, Perfect Storms.

Excerpt:
After an antiwar conference in Charlottesville, Virginia, a man came up to me and expressed concern that the U.S. would soon follow through on threats to bomb Iran. He suggested that a "perfect storm" might soon enable our terrorizing administration, its spineless congressional enablers, and the cheerbombers in AIPAC to aggress Iran, and perhaps even utilize deep penetration, bunker-buster mini-nukes to do it.
This perfect storm might include a hot wind of American discontent with the occupation of Iraq, the hypobaric levels of popularity of the fifth season of the Bush-Cheney "Who Wants to be a Global Policeman" reality show,




Consortium News
Feingold, Kerry & the 'Strategists'

Excerpt:
Years before Sen. John Kerry fell under the spell of national Democratic “strategists,” he believed that a Democrat’s best hope for winning the White House was to run as an insurgent. To overcome built-in Republican advantages, Kerry felt a Democrat had to show principle and challenge the status quo.
But Kerry had that thinking beat out of him. In the late 1980s, he got pummeled by the mainstream news media and the political establishment for exposing cocaine trafficking by Nicaraguan contra rebels and for embarrassing their Reagan-Bush patrons. Respectable Washington didn’t want to believe the ugly reality.




Alternet
Impeachement Talk Reaches Mainstream

Excerpt:
The groundswell for President Bush's impeachment is growing, and last week the establishment media finally took notice.
The Wall Street Journal ran a story analyzing how a planned impeachment of President Bush will play out as an "election issue," including a helpful pie chart showing 51 percent of Americans support Congress in considering Bush's impeachment if he "didn't tell the truth about the reasons for the Iraq war



Americablog
The Pentagon wants AMERICAblog's help spreading propaganda about Iraq

H.L.s Take
Check out this story, they put up a letter they recieved from some high level Iraq Flack in Washington asking him to link to a propaganda outlet


Courant.com
Lamont Opens Senate Fight
Calls Lieberman `Republican Lite'


Excerpt:
Lamont, 52, a Greenwich cable television entrepreneur with deep pockets and liberal politics, promised a hard challenge from the left for a Democratic nomination that has gone to Lieberman without opposition since 1988.
Lieberman's support for invading Iraq may be the catalyst for a challenge to a three-term incumbent whose candidacy he once supported financially, but Lamont said his differences with the senator go deeper than the war.



Oakland Tribune

Diebold software leak makes whistle-blower a folk hero to activists


Excerpt:
One night early in 2004, a few weeks before the presidential primary, a Van Nuys actor making ends meet temping as a word processor listened on headphones as a young lawyer laid out a defense for Diebold Election Systems Inc.'s use of unapproved voting software in Alameda County.
Sitting at a computer terminal on the 45th floor of a Los Angeles skyscraper, Steve Heller transcribed the lawyer's taped memo suggesting that Diebold could claim the software was a new, "experimental" voting system, even though it had handled two Alameda County elections in 2003.




Brad Blog
VIDEO - Electrocuted Abu Ghraib Prisoner Speaks Out


Excerpt:
Ali Shalal Qaissi was the mayor of a town near Baghdad before he was arrested and taken to Abu Ghraib prison. While detained, Mr. Qaissi was subjected to torture including electrocution. He says, "I felt my eyes popping out. Once I bit my tongue and and blood started coming out of my mouth."

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