Here's a nice breakdown of the House's changes to the eavesdropping program.

Quoted: For one thing, as TPMmuckraker reported earlier today, under the bill, the primary role for the FISA Court is in issuing generalized surveillance warrants for "persons reasonably believed to be outside the United States."

Of course, Bush has wanted to say this all along, but that demonstrates why Obama isn't in any way above succumbing to the imperialist terms of U.S. political discourse. And neither is Hilary for that matter.

Quoted: A politics blog by the staff of The New York Times. The Caucus analyzes the latest political news from Washington and around the country and looks ahead to the 2008 presidential election.

And what a reclaim it was...

Quoted: CAMP DAVID, Md. (AP) -- Doctors removed five small growths from President Bush's colon Saturday after he temporarily transferred the powers of his office to Vice President Dick Cheney under the rarely invoked 25th Amendment.

Quoted: It is, I believe, a positive development that The New York Times today has a front-page article documenting how active the debate is inside the Bush administration over whether to attack Iran. Perhaps the article will elevate the attention level paid to this very real and very dangerous possibility.

The essence of the article is this:
The debate has pitted Ms. Rice and her deputies, who appear to be winning so far, against the few remaining hawks inside the administration, especially those in Vice President Dick Cheney's office who, according to some people familiar with the discussions, are pressing for greater consideration of military strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities.

a slightly perverse joy in watching gonzales getting his ass handed to him....check out the youtube vids and the backstory behind each one....

oh, and, by the way, i am beginning my infinite redoting of my last redots for TPM Muckraker, if you haven't noticed....

Quoted: Either a car bomb killed people or a car hit a roadside bomb, killing people.

despite my going back and forth on gun control, here the back story to bush's arrival at the V tech campus on the day after the shootings is well developed...

Quoted: Greg Palast, reporting for BBC, Harpers and more

Quoted: Police officials would not identify the gunman, who killed himself, or say whether one person was behind two shootings on the sprawling campus.

two things:

1) joshua micah marchall is a hottie.

2) if you haven't been following the US attorneys scandal, it's gotten a LOT juicier in the last couple of days--and the Talking Points Memo has started posting video analysis.