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CNN is talking about Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff as a replacement. Bush may simply opt for a recess appointment to avoid a fight with the Senate, but the Senate would be hard pressed to turn down a guy most of them approved for a cabinet position only a couple of years ago. Either way, don't expect to see an Attorney General willing to appoint any special prosecutors.

If Fred Thompson enters the race which is just a formality now, there will be no chance McCain will grab the Republican nomination.

That is so, so true. Anyone who wants four more years of Bush will run for Thompson's camp. McCain is just a pale imitation; Thompson's the real thing.

Pro-gun: check. Anti-abortion: check. Pro-tax-cut: check. Paranoid, fatalistic world view: check.

Given a choice between the two, I'm actually hoping that McCain, the maverick, is just saying what the right wants to hear, but I think he's rudderless and just going whereever the RNC blows him.

Seriously, the tagging is rapidly dissolving into childish rubbish (even by Slashdot's standards)

Well, I, for one, welcome our trap-detecting overloards!

I offer them these gifts: a beowulf cluster; Natalie Portman; and, of course, Hot Grits (tm).

Oh, and remember: In Soviet Russia, Cowboy Neal options you!

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Seriously, the tagging is rapidly dissolving into childish rubbish (even by Slashdot's standards)

Well, I, for one, welcome our trap-detecting overloards!

I offer them these gifts: a beowulf cluster; Natalie Portman; and, of course, Hot Grits (tm).

Oh, and remember: In Soviet Russia, Cowboy Neal options you!

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• The enormity of the federal debt and the fact that hundreds of billions of it is owed to the Chinese.
• A congressional end to any auditing oversight of the Iraq reconstruction effort, which has put people in jail, just in time for Rumsfeld to ask congress for even more off budget spending.
• If you want to talk about timing, talk about the 25% drop in oil prices leading up to the election that is set to reverse afterward
• Or, you can talk about six years of presidential signing statements that have gone uncontested by congress -- some of which assert that the president doesn't have to obey or enforce some or all of the law he's signing.

• The enormity of the federal debt and the fact that hundreds of billions of it is owed to the Chinese.
• A congressional end to any auditing oversight of the Iraq reconstruction effort, which has put people in jail, just in time for Rumsfeld to ask congress for even more off budget spending.
• If you want to talk about timing, talk about the 25% drop in oil prices leading up to the election that is set to reverse afterward
• Or, you can talk about six years of presidential signing statements that have gone uncontested by congress -- some of which assert that the president doesn't have to obey or enforce some or all of the law he's signing.

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1. It is one thing to avoid matching ads to competitor's content (e.g., not putting Ford ads on GM's website) when you're talking about text. It's a whole lot harded with video
2. Much of the content of YouTube violates copyright. Inserting ads infront of copy-infringing material could make them even more culpable than they would be just owning the site.
3. Ads will create a market from an ad-free service to be a disruptive technology and come up from under and destroy YouTube

How on earth is it legit to tack a completely unrelated bill to another and pass them both under the same vote? Am I the only one who sees how unbelievably insane that is?

They tried to tack on more than that.

I agree with you. This is completely insane and it allows bills to basically appear out of nowhere and totally bypass any sort of review. Once a bill comes out of comittee, no one reads them. The guys just vote how their told to vote - often without knowledge of things that have been tacked on at the last minute.

Oops. My bad. Wrote that backwards. They attached the gambling measure to a bill install radiation detectors in U.S. Ports.

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According to this article , the Republicans in congress attached a measure to install radiation detectors in U.S. Ports and pushed it through early this morning. It is now awaiting Bush's signature.

Hopefully, this will backfire in November.

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