News Roundup

Old Senate Lion Robert Byrd endorses Ned Lamont

Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV), who is running for re-election himself, has endorsed Ned Lamont over Joe Leiberman. What's interesting is that Robert Byrd is the first of the Senate "Gang of 14" to do so.

Republicans losing "security moms"
Married women with children, the "security moms" whose concerns about terrorism made them an essential part of Republican victories in 2002 and 2004, are taking flight from GOP politicians this year in ways that appear likely to provide a major boost for Democrats in the midterm elections, according to polls and interviews.

Bush Signs Sweeping Revision of Pension Law
President Bush yesterday signed the most extensive revision of the nation's pension law in three decades as the federal government moved to shore up often-shaky private retirement programs for 44 million Americans and head off a crisis like the savings-and-loan bailout of the 1980s and 1990s. But critics said it was not aggressive enough.

NYT Editorial: Court was correct to strike down illegal wiretapping
Yesterday, a Detroit federal court judge declared, "There are no hereditary kings in America and no powers not created by the Constitution" and promptly ruled against Bush's illegal wiretapping program. The New York Times Editorial page applauded this decision