Legendary columnist Molly Ivins, 62, dies.

post from Think Progress on 31 January 2007 07:03:00 PM. © Think Progress

“Molly Ivins, whose biting columns mixed liberal populism with an irreverent Texas wit, died at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at her home in Austin after an up-and-down battle with breast cancer she had waged for seven years. She was 62.” From her final column, published January 12, 2007: We are the people who run this country. [...]

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post from Eschaton on 31 January 2007 07:01:00 PM. © Eschaton

Enjoy.

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Justin: Good Night, and Good Muck

post from TPMmuckraker on 31 January 2007 06:36:59 PM. © TPMmuckraker

A little-known story from the very beginning of TPMmuckraker: a few days into the gig, Paul and I were still messing around and trying to figure out how to cover all the scandals that were out there. Let's divvy it...

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Freshman Dems Being Pressured To Go Old School

post from Crooks and Liars on 31 January 2007 06:30:56 PM. © Crooks and Liars

Showing that not learning the lessons of the last election occurs on our side of the aisle too.Sirotablog: Because Tom Friedman keeps saying "just wait another few months" on Iraq, many have started referring short-hand to "Friedmans" as time periods of doing the same thing that people in Washington perpetually ask the public to accept [...]

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Lewis Legal Fees Hit $900K

post from TPMmuckraker on 31 January 2007 06:30:49 PM. © TPMmuckraker

Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-CA), the longtime GOP appropriator who's facing a federal investigation as part of the Duke Cunningham scandal, dropped another $45,000 on legal fees in December, according to new documents filed with the Federal Election Commission. Lewis, the...

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Conyers to launch probe of signing statements.

post from Think Progress on 31 January 2007 06:30:00 PM. © Think Progress

House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) announced Wednesday that his committee would open a formal inquiry into President Bush’s use of “presidential signing statements.” “We are not going to take no for an answer,” said Conyers, vowing “to demand answers from the White House about its intention to ignore the ban on torture when needed [...]

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NANCY'S BACK-- READY TO RUMBLE

post from DownWithTyranny! on 31 January 2007 06:25:00 PM. © DownWithTyranny!

Speaker Pelosi led a congressional delegation over to Iraq and Afghanistan to do a little fact finding now that the escalation issue is starting to boil over back in DC. She said that the trip left them "more convinced than ever that there was no military solution" to Bush's Iraq war. Although Speaker Pelosi took along mostly very military-oriented Democrats like Ike Skelton and Jack Murtha, there was one Republican who came too, Ohio's David Hobson. Hobson who can only be described as a right-wing rubber stamp Republican, has a frighteningly reactionary voting record on war and peace issues and a perfect zero when it comes to Iraq, having never once deviated from a single Bush Regime diktat.

'Til now. Although he didn't say anything about ditching Bush's far right party, Congressman Hobson did say today that it was "imperative" that the U.S. mission shift from combat operations to training Iraqi troops, and that a regional diplomatic effort be launched. "Frankly, the United States has done its part. It's time for other countries to step up and do their part." Blunt, Boehner and Howdy Doody will probably say Pelosi fed him some acid.

This morning Speaker Pelosi told NPR's Morning Edition that "What is happening in Iraq is chaos. We don't have many good options. Everyone that we spoke to said that this escalation that the president is engaged in was the one last chance. Many did not believe it would be successful." Maliki?

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Good for Him

post from Eschaton on 31 January 2007 06:13:00 PM. © Eschaton

Obama:

I didn't take Senator Biden's comments personally, but obviously they are historically inaccurate. After all, we've had presidential candidates like Jesse Jackson, Shirley Chisholm, Carol Mosely Braun and Al Sharpton. They gave a voice to many important issues through their campaigns and no one would call them inarticulate.

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Joe Klein Needs Blogging Lessons

Yes Joe, we care about substance. Calling John Kerry "Frenchy," is not substance—you…twit. (ooops, I was uncivil right there. Did you see?) Swampland is the correct title for your blog.Duncan:Joe Klein channels the collective wit of Jonah Goldberg and Mallard Filmore and refers to John Kerry as "Frenchy," and then channels the blogger ethics of Andrew Sullivan [...]

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White House, Dems Battle over Global Warming
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A House oversight hearing yesterday presented overwhelming evidence that the administration has been censoring government scientists' work on global warming. But there's a piece missing for Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) to complete the puzzle, and the administration seems determined not...