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House minority leader Nancy Pelosi, the California Democrat, engaged in a small but cheesy bit of deception last week. She released a letter, which quickly found its way to the front page of the New York Times, that she had written on Oct. 11, 2001, to then National Security Agency director General Michael V. Hayden. In it she expressed concern that Hayden, who had briefed the House Intelligence Committee about the steps he was taking to track down al-Qaeda terrorists after the 9/11 attacks, was not acting with "specific presidential authorization." Hayden wrote her back that he was acting...
Given the potential damage, it was no surprise that Republicans sought to make Abramoff a bipartisan stain, circulating a seven-page research paper titled "Jack Abramoff's Democrat Connections," which lists contributions and news stories associating the disgraced lobbyist with nine Democratic Senators and six Democratic House members. But the fact is that about two-thirds of Abramoff-related money went to Republicans, and that may have already begun to shift the political equation 10 months before the congressional election. In an Associated Press-Ipsos poll released Friday, respondents said they favored a generic Democrat for Congress over a Republican...
...host of other largely nonpartisan programs in a concerted attempt to recast himself as the consensus-building centrist he promised to be when he was elected two years ago. To that end he has added more moderates to his inner circle?most notably staff chief Susan Kennedy, an iconoclastic Democrat who supports abortion rights but shares the Governor's hostility to government regulation. And he has demoted partisans like liberal environmental activist Terry Tamminen and Kennedy's predecessor, conservative Republican Patricia Clarey. He is courting?or, some suggest, co-opting? Democrats on pet issues like raising the minimum wage...
...friends and colleagues scratching their heads; the Alito they are reading about bears little resemblance to the conservative yet cautious man they know. "He's careful, he's methodical, he's no maverick or extremist," says Susan L. Sullivan, a legal consultant in San Francisco and self-described liberal Democrat who clerked for Alito in 1990 and '91. Sullivan thinks opponents are "cherry-picking decisions." But that is standard procedure for any confirmation fight. And Lawrence Lustberg, a New Jersey defense lawyer who has known Alito for decades and likes him personally, says the nominee would certainly move the court...
...DeLay's attorney, Dick DeGuerin, accuses prosecutor Ronnie Earle, a Democrat, of seeking advantage from national trends by subpoenaing representatives of law firms and Indian tribes connected to lobbyist Jack Abramoff and records from lobbyists connected to disgraced Republican congressman Duke Cunningham-individuals, says DeGuerin, who have no direct ties to the campaign finance charges against his client...