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Aide Says White House Mocked Evangelicals
By Julian Borger
The Guardian UK
Saturday 14 October 2006
Washington - A former senior presidential aide has accused the Bush
administration of using evangelical Christians to win votes but then
privately ridiculing them once in office. The allegations by David Kuo, the
former deputy director of the White House office […]

Confessions of a ‘Defeatocrat’
By John P. Murtha
Sunday, October 15, 2006; B01
The Republicans are running scared. In the White House, on Capitol Hill and
on the campaign trail, they’re worried about losing control of Congress. And
so the administration and the GOP have launched a desperate assault on
Democrats and our position on the war in Iraq. […]

Foley ‘October Surprise’ Claim Flops
by Robert Parry | Oct 16 2006
George W. Bush’s snide aside aside, the Republican “October Surprise” theory
accusing Democrats of waiting until the final weeks of Campaign 2006 to
spring the Mark Foley page-sex scandal appears to have collapsed.
Though never offering evidence, Republicans implied that Democrats had put
congressional pages at risk by […]

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-mehlman15oct15,0,1634103.story?coll=la-home-headlines
Getting a Grasp of His Reach
Two years after the Abramoff scandal came to light, details of his influence in the White House, not just Capitol Hill, continue to surface.
By Peter Wallsten
Times Staff Writer
9:58 PM PDT, October 14, 2006
Washington — For five years, Allen Stayman wondered who ordered his removal from a State Department job negotiating […]

Feds want to know: Did Mitt check tunnel?
By Casey Ross
Boston Herald Reporter - Saturday, October 14, 2006
Federal officials are probing scathing allegations that the Romney administration falsely claimed to conduct safety inspections in the Big Dig tunnel that collapsed and killed a woman in July.
The Securities and Exchange Commission […]

Why our shift?
Steve Rose, Chairman October 05, 2006
The Johnson County Sun - Kansas
This is a sneak preview.
As we prepare ourselves to make political endorsements in subsequent issues, I can tell you unequivocally that this newspaper has never endorsed so many Democrats. Not even close.
In the 56 years we have been publishing […]

Democrats: The Liberal, Moderate and Conservative Party
The notion that real conservatives are better represented by the Democratic Party than the corrupt, radical Right cabal that passes for the Republican Party in the era of George W. Bush has finally being taken seriously. In recent weeks, Democratic leaders from Al Franken to former President Bill Clinton […]

Letters on voter ID under fire
200,000 mailed out after law struck down
GEORGIA 2006 http://tinyurl.com/y27sce
By ERNIE SUGGS
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 10/13/06
Less than a week after a judge struck down Georgia’s photo ID
requirement for voters because it violated the state Constitution,
nearly 200,000 letters — not the originally reported 20,000 — were sent
out to registered voters, notifying […]

FBI investigates Rep. Curt Weldon
By Greg Gordon
McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON - The Justice Department is investigating whether Republican Rep. Curt Weldon of Pennsylvania traded his political influence for lucrative lobbying and consulting contracts for his daughter, according to sources with direct knowledge of the inquiry.
The FBI, which opened an investigation in recent months, has formally referred the […]

The South and Iraq
NEW INSTITUTE POLL: Opposition to Iraq War Growing in the U.S. South
Region’s attitudes marked by “sadness,” reluctance to endure future war
October 2006
As the 2006 mid-term elections near and debate heats up about the Iraq war, a new Institute for Southern Studies opinion poll finds that support for the war is deteriorating […]