Folks, it’s gonna get ugly out there.

GOP Pork, Imperiled By McCain
(WP) - The congressional Republican establishment, with its charade of pretending to crack down on budget earmarks while in fact preserving its addiction to pork, faces embarrassment this week when the Democratic-designed budget is brought to the Senate floor. The GOP’s presumptive presidential nominee, Sen. John McCain, is [...]

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‘I Apologize to the Public’

Updated, 5:44 p.m. | Following is a transcript of Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s brief statement to the public, delivered at his Midtown Manhattan office on Monday afternoon:
Over the past nine years, eight as attorney general and one as governor, I’ve tried to uphold a vision of progressive politics that would rebuild New York [...]

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Spitzer - Hoisted on his own petard

Gov. Eliot Spitzer and his wife, Silda.
ALBANY -(NYT) Gov. Eliot Spitzer, who gained national prominence relentlessly pursuing Wall Street wrongdoing, has been caught on a federal wiretap arranging to meet with a high-priced prostitute at a Washington hotel last month, according to a law enforcement official and a person briefed on [...]

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Agency Confronts Iran With Evidence on Weapons

WASHINGTON - (NYT) -The International Atomic Energy Agency said Friday that it had confronted Iran for the first time with evidence supplied by the United States and other countries that strongly suggested the country had experimented with technology to make a nuclear weapon, but that Iranian officials dismissed the documents [...]

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