Josh Marshall makes an interesting point regarding “Foleygate”: The simple fact is that Foley’s downfall has pretty nearly decapitated the leadership of the House GOP with just five weeks to go before election day. And that’s devastating. What do I mean by decapitated? Let’s assume, for the sake of discussion, that nothing else really comes …

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I watched Bob Woodward on “60 Minutes” tonight (video and transcript here). The only startling revelation I saw was a chart (classified “SECRET”) showing the number of attacks on American forces increasing over the past three years: Reporter: Woodward says that’s the most important measure of violence in iraq, and he unearthed this graph? classified …

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