“Duncan Hunter’s toughest fight yet”
Los Angeles Times – 7/13/2007
MERRIMACK, N.H.- — Duncan Hunter had already spent an hour serving scrambled eggs at a Rotary Club pancake breakfast and walked a mile in the nearby Amherst Fourth of July parade, and was now more than halfway through another parade in this old farm town on the west bank of the Merrimack River.
Hunter, a 14-term congressman from El Cajon in San Diego County, strode from one side of the road to the other, waving, shaking hands and introducing himself. It’s a polite crowd; most wave back or take the proffered hand. A few thank him for coming. Fewer still say they’re pulling for him.
Caught up in delivering the speed-date version of his platform — tougher border security, strong defense and reviving the American industrial base — Hunter, 59, falls behind the middle-school kids carrying his banner. As he hustles to close the gap, someone yells out, “Go on ‘The Daily Show’! We’ve never heard of you.”
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“Biden Floats Plan for Partitioned Iraq After Troop Drawdown”
PBS – 7/18/2007
JIM LEHRER: Now, the third of our senator conversations this week on leaving Iraq. Judy Woodruff has talked with Democrat Carl Levin and Republican Lindsey Graham. Earlier this evening, she interviewed Joe Biden, Democrat of Delaware, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
JUDY WOODRUFF: Senator Biden, thank you for joining us.
SEN. JOE BIDEN (D), Delaware: Happy to be with you, Judy.
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“New Richardson ad demands return of all U.S. troops from Iraq”
Boston Globe – 7/18/2007
WASHINGTON –New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson aired a new ad in Iowa and New Hampshire on Wednesday, demanding that all U.S. troops come out of Iraq and calling on Congress “to stand up to this president.”
The ad opened as Senate Republicans sunk a Democratic plan that would have required troops to begin coming home within 120 days, with a complete pullout by April 20, 2008.
“Our troops have done everything we’ve asked and I don’t want to see any more die,” Richardson says in the ad, as he walks through the foothills of his home state.
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“Gingrich Says U.S. is Waging “Phony War” Against Radical Islam”
News 10 – 7/18/2007
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich charges that the United States has been waging a weak and “phony war since 9/11″ and continues to lose ground to radical Islam.
In a speech to the annual conference of Christians United for Israel, Gingrich charged that instead of fighting to win, President Bush is now pursuing appeasement through a proposed Mideast peace conference.
Comparing that to the attempted appeasement of Nazi Germany at Munich before World War Two, Gingrich said, “We don’t have a peace process. We have a surrender process.”
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“U.S. Reverses Visa Stance In Bid to Fix July Mix-up”
The Wall Street Journal – 7/18/2007
In a reversal, the U.S. government said it will accept all applications for work-based green cards that were filed by thousands of skilled workers in early July at the government’s invitation and then rejected.
The decision followed pressure from high-tech employers and foreign professionals, and threats of class-action lawsuits. The announcement yesterday is the culmination of negotiations over several days and involved Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff as well as top officials of the State Department and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the immigration agency, according to people familiar with the matter.
Immigration Director Emilio Gonzalez said “public reaction…made it clear that the federal government’s management of this process needs further review.”
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