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Sounds like the Republicans who put the "con" in Iraqi reconstruction got their degrees from the Abramoff School of Accounting. Loose cash and Republicans; a volatile combination. Things got ugly fast: Read below the fold...

Dionne writes a column that, amazingly enough, reflects PO not BCW (using Shystee's brilliant formulation). In WaPo, Dionne looks at Rove's plans to run (again) on 9/11. Read below the fold...

The closed doors that Republicans work behind, that is. WaPo:

House and Senate GOP negotiators, meeting behind closed doors last month to complete a major budget-cutting bill, agreed on a change to Senate-passed Medicare legislation that would save the health insurance industry $22 billion over the next decade, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.

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The headline: Bush to anti-abortion activists: "We will prevail."

Wonder why His Royal Lieness thinks that? Could it be that coathanger zealots Roberts and Scalito simply lied to the Senate about Roe? Only to serve a higher good, of course. Read below the fold...

You know.

Deborah Howell.

Thanks Jane. Read below the fold...

So, touching displays of fealty at yet another another tickets-only speech by George I. Yawn. I just don't have the energy to pull apart the lies, and it's the same old, same old anyhow.

Say, anyone get a good look at His back? Read below the fold...

AP
Ford Motor Co., the nation's second-largest automaker, said Monday that it will cut 25,000 to 30,000 jobs and idle 14 facilities by 2012 as part of a restructuring designed to reverse a $1.6 billion loss last year in its North American operations.

The cuts represent 20 percent to 25 percent of Ford's North American work force of 122,000 people. Read below the fold...

And what's remarkable is that they are headlines:

Bush Aide Says Abramoff Photos Coincidence

Bush to Take Unscripted Audience Questions

And in each--surprise--the spin of the headline vanishes when you read the story.

First, Abramoff.... Every Republican inside the Beltway is saying "Jack who?" But let's get serious: Read below the fold...

A rash of comment spam broke out tonight--not the Chinese stuff, but a more clever variety that puts a paragraph of superficially relevant content followed by the usual links to viagra, etc.

So, fearing a flood of spam if I didn't do something fast, I reactivated the "Bad Behavior" module. That has killed off the spam in the past, but it has a downside: Occasional false positives for legitimate posters; if you've experienced this, we've probably corresponded--there's an extremely detailed and puzzling error message. Read below the fold...

The normally level-headed Harry Reid apologized to the Republicans for a memo that named names of corrupt Republicans in the Abramoff scandal. [Hey, "corrupt Republicans is not redundant language. Not all Republicans are corrupt. After all, some of them are dead!] So now the Republicans want the staffer who wrote the memo fired. See what you get for apologizing? The Republicans just think you're weak and fuck you harder. Read below the fold...

Deborah Howell: "Abramoff scandal is a Republican scandal." Good. We're making progress. It's about time. So I dropped Little Debbie a note:

How do you get a mule's attention?

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