DeLay Is Likely to Be Found Culpable

Now that it's clear that his controversial private-paid trips abroad will be put under a microscope in Congress, Tom DeLay is in serious danger of being declared in violation of House ethics rules, legal experts say.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/04/27/AR2005042702053.html

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Lugar Predicts Bolton's Approval

The Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee predicted yesterday that John R. Bolton would be approved as the next ambassador to the United Nations, even as Senate Democrats prepared new questions for the controversial nominee.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-

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Filibuster Vote Will Be Hard to Predict

As few as two or three uncommitted GOP senators have left Democrats and Republicans uncertain who might prevail in an eventual showdown in the battle over judicial filibusters, sources in both parties said yesterday.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/04/27/AR2005042702088.html

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Media obscure public opinion on filibusters

In an April 27 article about the Senate's "stalemate over judicial confirmations," The New York Times misrepresented public opinion by reporting the findings of a partisan Republican poll, which proponents claim suggests broad public support for the "nuclear option," while failing to report other Republican polling data that indicate otherwise. Moreover, in conveying Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman's description of the poll's findings, the Times misreported its results, falsely suggesting that the poll showed that the vast majority of Americans believe all judicial nominees should receive an up-or-down vote in the Senate, when the question actually addressed only nominees assumed to be "well qualified."
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http://mediamatters.org/items/200504270007

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CIA chief regrets Iraq comments

Saying U.S. had 'slam dunk' Iraq evidence 'dumbest thing I ever said.'

Bit late for that now, I'd say

http://cnn.allpolitics.printthis.clickability.com /pt/cpt?action=cpt&title=CNN.com+-

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Fla. Court Refuses to Hear Limbaugh Appeal
2 hours, 4 minutes ago
The Florida Supreme Court said Thursday it will not consider an appeal from conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh over prosecutors' seizure of his medical records during an investigation into whether he illegally purchased painkillers.

The 4-3 order did not explain the court's reasoning.>>>read more

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050428/ap_en_ ce/limbaugh_painkillers_1&printer=1

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