Category: red versus blue

Remainders: Out for a Good Borking

• Jeb Bush, talking hurricane relief and support, proves to be a less-than-traditional conservative: "If Wal-Mart can do it, why can't the government?" That's like digging up Barry Goldwater in order to kill him again! [South Florida Sun-Sentinel]
• "Borked" versus "Miers". What the rest of the world calls "tops" and "bottoms." [AP, via Breitbart.com]
• Vioxx teaches its reps to play Dodgeball. Because nobody makes them bleed their own profits! Nobody! [ATLA]
• The original text of Harriet Miers resignation letter. REVEALED! [Flak Magazine]
• Red States Lose! Ozzie Guillen rubs Texas' face in it by taking World Series victory to decidedly erotic new heights. [AP]

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Daily Briefing: Pet Peeves

• $286b transportation bill, which funds a record 6,371 pet projects, marks a "significant shift from Bush's once-uncompromising stand on earmarks." [WP, NYT, USAT]
• NARAL's anti-Roberts advertisement sparks backlash; Annenberg study concludes "the ad is false" and "uses the classic tactic of guilt by association." [NYT]
• 9/11 Commission was notified of military intelligence about the hijackers; Weldon says the panel's "refusal to investigate. . . is evocative of the worst tendencies in the federal government that the commission worked to expose." [NYT]
• Roberts advised O'Connor to be evasive at her confirmation hearings, suggesting he will duck questions about his opinions on specific cases. [WP]
• Specter supports administration's position on Roberts' memos. [NYT, WSJ]
• Protesters set to join Sheehan; Rice, Rumself plan to visit ranch today. [USAT]

• Roberts was critical of "new right" movement in the 1980s. [WT]
• Still unclear: who sent Joe Wilson packing to Niger? [WP]
• States are standing up for their Air National Guard bases. [NYT]
• Pirro officially launches campaign in New York senate race: "I'm Republican red on fiscal policy with conservative beliefs on making tax cuts permanent, but I've got broad blue stripes on social issues that don't change based on the office I run for." [WP, NYT]
• Pirro must increase name recognition. [NYT]
• Republicans are more likely to go for professional degrees, argues White House deputy director of public liaison. [WP]
• Several Republican governors are attempting to loosen organized labor's grip on public employees. [WSJ]

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Washington Post Magazine Officially Out of Ideas

We're sort of curious about what exactly goes on in the newsroom of the WP magazine. Based on the cover story of yesterday's issue, we're thinking not much. The entire article stems from this premise: "The Washington Post Magazine... wanted to see what happens when you pluck hostile bloggers from the ether and cause them to spend a day together, sightseeing and arguing in the nation's capital."

You know what happens? Readers fall asleep. Please smoke more dope, WP Magazine staffers. Then you'll be drawing up plans to send gerbils on helium balloon journeys or how to makes a perpetual motion machine with gum and string. At the very least, you would have released a gerbil into the "hostile blogger" conversation, which might have been the only way to prevent the article from reading like the transcript to a public access version of "Crossfire." Also, a gerbil could have told the author that going meta half-way through the piece and noting that journalists are "wringing our hands in countless articles about blogging, wiping our brows through endless panels devoted to blogging, scrying through bottomless poll data about blogging, and launching blogs of our own" does not make it okay to write another piece about blogging. In short: More gerbils, less blogging.

Fighting Words [WP]

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