"Karl Rove stopped by to ask you (roughly quoting), `How we planned to proceed regarding US Attorneys, whether we were going to allow all to stay, request resignations from all and accept only some of them, or selectively replace them, etc.,"'Has anyone else wondered exactly why replacing most or all U.S. attorneys (practical or not) would occur to Karl Rove and the Bush White House in January 2005?
-- e-mail from Colin Newman, a legal aide in the White House counsel's office, to deputy counsel David Leitch, Jan. 6, 2005
Presidential candidate Sen. John Edwards appeared alongside Rep. Heath Shuler at an event in an Asheville, NC home this afternoon. Maybe fifty people. Informal, though nearly all the men wore ties. Edwards did not. And I did not remember to take notes.
To follow up on Matt's morning post, Restoring the Public ...
Campaign finance reform -- including some form of public funding of elections -- must not fall between the cracks if Democrats expect to live up to Americans' hopes for real change and retain their newfound leadership
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· Liveblog from inside a McCain/Palin Rally (fbihop)
· Schweitzer to headline Harkin Steak Fry (desmoinesdem)
· Saturday Cartoons (Josh Orton)
· NY-26: Jack Davis' Fake 3rd Party Kicked Off Ballot (lipris)
· Texas Voter Registration Rates Nearing Records (KTinTX)
· THIS is how Democrats Fight Back (lowkell)
· Clinton Advisors Wishy-Washy on Palin (Bob Brigham)
· GOP Rep. Lynn Westmoreland Defends His Own Racism (HellofaSandwich)
· 16,000 to Attend National Anti-Poverty Convention on Saturday (Mathew Gross)
· Edwards cancels all speaking engagements before election (desmoinesdem)
· ID-Sen: GOP Begs Conservatives Not to Splinter Vote (Senate Guru)