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Speaker Pelosi got questions about war and telecom immunity that put her on the spot, and after blaming all of Congress's failures on the Senate, took the opportunity to stand up and provide wandering, nonresponsive answers to the next question. Why? She's a weak Speaker with a serious internal challenge to her authority from the Maryland conservative Majority leader Steny Hoyer, who is very popular among House Dems. He's there for them and he's a very able manager.

Day Three of TraitorFest '08 starts with a visit from Nancy Pelosi. I'm sitting here waiting for the "Ask The Speaker" session to start. Exhibit Hall 4 of the Austin Convention Center is totally packed and buzzing and Code Pink is in the house. Already I've heard several people say, "this could get pretty rowdy." We'll soon find out. I'll be liveblogging the event in comments.

This week, both Elizabeth Edwards and dday wrote pieces filled with something that is far too often lacking in political discussions: compassion. And I wanted to highlight a bit from each for everyone this morning because, frankly, both struck a chord with me. First, from Elizabeth Edwards:...Last week—when Tony was still alive and I was not so afraid—I rode my bicycle in a small Fourth of July parade at the beach to which we have gone for close to two decades. When I got to the celebration and stepped off the bicycle, an older man approached me. I hope you are doing well, he said, and then he added—oddly, it is more often the case that people do feel obliged to confess the gap between us—"although we don't agree on much of anything."...

Tokyo Police Club - Your English is Good

The only nation that can destroy America is America, and never let it be said Americans don't have a can-do attitude.

99 Poems about Ted Stevens! 63 on Tuesday, 36 on Wednesday. And although Ted hasn't been surfacing in the news today like he was earlier in the week, the sun doesn't set in the North this time of the year, until very late. Ted did call me though. It was a robo-call. I was really hoping that he'd call, or that somebody from his staff would call back, accepting my offer inviting somebody in his Alaska office to help judge this contest over the weekend. But, no, just another damn GOP robo-call. Here's my favorite part of Ted's call: Hi! This is Senator Ted Stevens. Sorry to miss you today. I've called to invite you to a town hall meeting - BY TELEPHONE! I'm reaching out to you with this new technology....

Taking a clue from his senior foreign policy adviser Richard Armitage, who recklessly chatted with Bob Woodward about Joe Wilson's wife's job at the CIA, presumptive GOP Presidential nominee John McCain alerted the enemy to Barack Obama's travel plans this weekend.

One of the most amazing characteristics of modern conservatives is their absolute refusal to be bound by such petty trifles as "laws" or "regulations" (or "facts," or "common decency," or...).  We're seeing a lot of it lately: Mukasey and Rove obstructing congressional investigations on the flimsiest of pretexts; Congress itself voting to immunize telecoms (and thus the White House) from prosecution for illegal surveillance; a GAO report on the Department Of Labor's unwillingness to protect workers; and the financial sector's ongoing burnination, fueled by deregulation, non-regulation, and outright malfeasance.