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December 1, 2007

Political news highlights from around the Web.

  • Karl Rove claims Congress rushed the vote on the Iraq War but transcripts show Bush arguing against a vote delay.
  • YouTube has posted the 34 question and answer videos from the Republican CNN YouTube Debate.
  • Federal prosecutors withdraw subpoena seeking identities of thousands of Amazon.com customers.
  • Minority whip Trent Lott says he will leave Senate before end of the year.
  • Vice President Dick Cheney found to have irregular heartbeat during doctor's visit. Cheney's heart was later zapped back into a regular rhythm.
  • Over 20,000 U.S. troops with brain injuries were left off the Pentagon's tally of injured troops.
  • GOP candidate Fred Thompson accuses Fox News of skewing things against him. As http://tinyurl.com/2kb5al
  • Conservative Australian Prime Minister John Howard defeated by left-leaning Kevin Rudd. Rudd has promised to remove Australian combat troops from Iraq and sign the Kyoto treaty.
  • Oprah Winfrey is said to be planning to hit the campaign trail and stump for Barack Obama.
  • Senator Fred Thompson sliding in GOP New Hampshire polls - latest poll even has Ron Paul ahead of him. Even Fred Thompson has doubts he will become president.
  • Bush's homeland security adviser Fran Townsend resigned.
  • Popular on YouTube - video of Spain's King Juan Carlos telling Venezuela president Chavzez to shut up.
  • Newsweek signs both Karl Rove and Daily Kos' Markos Moulitasas as columnists.
  • Interrogation expert Malcolm Nance says water boarding is "torture" and "drowning."
  • President Bush and German Chancellor Angela Merkel vow diplomatic solution to Iran's nuclear program.
  • President Bush played war video games with injured troops.
  • Senator overrides Bush's veto of the Water Resources Development Act.
  • Gallup Poll finds that President Bush has topped Nixon in unpopularity.
  • GOP candidate Ron Paul raises over $3.5 million in a single day.
  • 2007 has already been the deadliest year of the Iraq War for U.S. soldiers. 2007 has also already been the deadliest year in Afghanistan for U.S. soldiers.
  • Stephen Colbert drops White House bid. "I have chosen not to put the country through another agonizing Supreme Court battle," Colbert said.
  • Fox host Sean Hannity says Halloween is a liberal holiday. Hannity says Halloween, "teach[es] kids to knock on other people's doors and ask for a handout."
  • Hundreds of US diplomats are refusing Iraq postings.
  • The largest dam in Iraq is at risk of an imminent collapse which could kill hundreds of thousands of people.
  • CNN reports that Blackwater guards were offered immunity by the U.S.
  • White House muzzles CDC Director Dr. Julie Gerberding on global warming related health risks.
  • Chris Dickey, the son of Deliverance author James Dickey, compares the Iraq War to the Deliverance film and Dick Cheney to Lewis Medlock.
  • Bush's counterterrorism chief said Iraq War hasn't made US safer from terrorism. Three days later he resigned.
  • Lynne Cheney digs deep into her family tree and finds that Barack Obama and Dick Cheney are distant cousins.
  • Rudy Giuliani takes question about what we would do about a hostile alien invasion from Outer Space. Giuliani says we will be prepared .
  • U.S. Military believes it has dealt "devastating and perhaps irreversible blows" to Al Qaeda in Iraq.
  • Retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez - former U.S. commander in Iraq - calls Iraq War "nightmare with no end in sight."






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