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A cakewalk for Mukasey?

George W. Bush’s pick to replace Alberto Gonzales goes before the Senate Judiciary Committee today, but you’ll be excused if you don’t feel the need to glue yourself to C-SPAN. Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy says he likes Michael Mukasey and expects him to be confirmed. Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer, who led the charge against Gonzales, does Leahy one better: “If the hearings go as well as the interviews [with senators] have, then he’ll be confirmed by a very large majority.”

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Under the big top
The McCain camp is trying to portray the Troopergate investigation as a circus.
“John likes to do all his communicating via carrier pigeon”
Betty White, of “The Golden Girls,” brings a little humor to the campaign.
McCain co-chairman questions Obama’s drug use
In another attack, former Oklahoma Gov. Frank Keating raises the Democratic nominee’s admitted drug use and calls him a “guy of the street.”
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