Lost in the coverage Monday of Senate Republicans blocking the no-confidence vote on Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, was a silly little speech given by Kit Bond (R-MO) about the Iraq war, the Democratic response to the quagmire and, as the Congressional Record labeled it, “Media Bias” in reporting on the American occupation. Bond covered all […]

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Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill, just off her confusing vote against the no brainer Cornyn Amendment, casts the NAY vote when it appears to count most along with Sens. Tester and Webb and Boxer. Republican Senators Lott and Kyl and our own Kit Bond tell their fearless leader to take a hike. I’m telling you, Bull […]

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By Matthew Continetti (excerpted) The most prominent Senate hawk is John McCain, but his presidential campaign often takes him away from Washington. That leaves most of the pro-war lobbying to McCain’s fellow Arizonan Jon Kyl, who is number three in the minority leadership, and South Carolina’s Lindsey Graham. Oklahoma’s Tom Coburn is also important. In […]

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The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center said Monday that it will name a plant growth facility at the center after U.S. Sen. Christopher S. “Kit” Bond. The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center is a not-for-profit research institute located at 975 N. Warson Road in St. Louis County. In a release, officials of the center said […]

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The Pitch called K.C.’s Warren Erdman last week “one of the city’s most powerful men. The former staffer to then Gov. Kit Bond – who managed Bond’s 1986 Senate campaign and then served as Bond’s chief of staff – is apparently so powerful now, that he doesn’t even fear his old boss. Insiders tell the […]

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Sen. Kit Bond, R-Mo., the top Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said he wants to again interview former CIA officer Valerie Plame. Bond said Plame has given inconsistent accounts of how her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, was sent to Africa to investigate reports that Iraq was trying to get uranium there, USA Today […]

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By SAM HANANEL Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Revelations that Sen. Kit Bond’s office urged the White House to replace former U.S. Attorney Todd Graves in the Western District Missouri came as little surprise to those familiar with the long-standing political feud between rival Republican camps in the state. Graves’ brother – Rep. Sam […]

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Sen. Kit Bond is further demonstrating his new found independence from President Bush. Yesterday, Bond joined a growing chorus of Republican Senators calling for the resignation of embattled and incompetent Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez. Today, the AP is reporting that the Senator has joined a group of “bi-partisan” Senators calling for legislation to force the […]

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Now Kit Bond is publicly pushing Dubya to give him a pink slip. Just leave already Al.

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WASHINGTON – Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Thursday he has “no basis to believe” that a federal Missouri voter fraud case had anything to do with the forced departure of Kansas City U.S. Attorney Todd Graves. Read more…

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