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Perhaps it is the spirit of the season, but my empathy receptors are in overdrive for poor Barack Obama.

Perhaps it is the spirit of the season, but my empathy receptors are in overdrive for poor Barack Obama.

David Gergen and Anderson Cooper actually had the nerve to compare the White House Social Secretary Desiree Rogers not appearing before Congress to Harriet Miers and Karl Rove ignoring Congressional subpoenas.

The Atlantic 's Marc Ambinder makes the following observation : From day one of his administration, the left has held Barack Obama's feet to the fire way more than the right ever did to George W. Bush -- at least until Bush's nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court.

Gallup has some numbers that might surprise. Basically, the folks who decide the elections are starting to consider the Republicans more and Dems better pay attention.

It's bad enough that Gov. Charlie Crist chose his buddy George LeMieux to succeed Mel Martinez in the U.S. Senate .

Or shoots it off.A I have no preference. I've got to say that the man with Timex ticker is the only good thing to come out of the last eight years.A One after the other, Bush Jr.'s decisions just didn't pan out.A Harriet Miers for the Supreme Court.A Scott McClellan's loyalty.A Tom Ridge's color coordination.

Gov. Charlie Crist said he wouldn't appoint himself to the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Mel Martinez.

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Reporting: Washington AS G.O.P. RAILED AT DEMOCRATS, IT HID FLAWED FINANCE REPORTS by Margie Burns American Reporter Correspondent Washington, D.C. WASHINGTON, Aug.

Lawyers for indicted former Rep. Rick Renzi claim recently released Bush W.H. docs prove he was targeted in 2006.

Harriet Miers, President Bush's failed Supreme Court nominee and longtime adviser, on Thursday submitted her resignation as White House counsel.

Former White House counsel Harriet Miers once aspired to serve on the Supreme Court, a bid that failed in 2005.

It was a relatively quiet week in Washington while lawmakers continue to spend summer recess in their home districts, mostly discussing the health care bill at town hall meetings, sometimes quite animatedly .

Crist and Martinez, whose Senate vacancy may be filled by the governor's "maestro." a That's the first name that popped into my head when I heard that Crist was serious about tapping his former chief of staff, George Lemieux , Broward County's most connected political player, to serve the remainder of Mel Martinez's term in the U.S. Senate.

Harriet Miers, President Bush's failed Supreme Court nominee and longtime adviser, on Thursday submitted her resignation as White House counsel.

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WHEELS OF TRUTH MOVE SLOWLY : It has taken years, but, finally, the role played by Karl Rove and the Bush White House in the "political cleansing" of US Attorneys they considered politically unreliable is coming out.

WASHINGTON, D.C.A a ' Tom Heffelfinger, the former U.S. attorney for Minnesota who in 2007 found himself thrust into the controversy over the Bush administration's dismissals of U.S. attorneys, is mentioned in newly released documents on the firings.

The House Judiciary Committee has released the "on-the-record interview transcripts of Karl Rove and Harriet Miers on the U.S. attorney firings and the Bush administration's politicization of the Department of Justice" . This testimony was given last month, but due to an agreement between the committee and former Bush administration to resolve the ...