"Kanye West had it backwards."

* headline of the day from Holden about Blinky's 2% rating among blacks: "Kanye West had it backwards." (link)

* wapo A1's a piece on TheBushScandals: "Beyond the short-term problems, Republicans are particularly anxious about the sprawling investigations of conservative lobbyist Jack Abramoff, whose business and political dealings regularly brought him into contact with dozens of lawmakers and top White House officials.... "This seems to be something that could spread almost anywhere . . . and that has a lot of people worried."" (link)
apparently that means that they are more worried about abramoff than Fitzgerald! thats awesome!

* "Other White House advisers see politics behind the recent spurt of investigations. "Some of it is cyclical politically," said Leonard A. Leo, who has taken leave as executive vice president of the conservative Federalist Society to help promote the Miers nomination. "And some of it, I'll be honest, is when the left and the Democrats are losing the battle of ideas, they turn to manufacturing scandal."" (link)
i wont bother unpacking that load of nonsense, other than to note that the Federalists are promoting Miers(!)

* Left I: "Taking the bull by the horns in the absence of any similar effort by either the corporate media or by the Democratic Party, After Downing Street commissioned a poll to ask just one simple question: "If President Bush did not tell the truth about his reasons for going to war with Iraq, Congress should consider holding him accountable by impeaching him." The result? By a margin of 50-44, Americans agree with that statement. The media, with 24 hours of time to fill on multiple channels, has yet to conduct a single discussion of that subject, as far as I know, making it all the more remarkable that 50% of Americans would arrive at that view." (link)

* from huffpost, here are the headlines of the articles that 'announced' that Blinky actually lost 2000 once they did the newspapers did the actual recount (absent scotus):
The New York Times: "Study of Disputed Florida Ballots Finds Justices Did Not Cast the Deciding Vote."
The Wall Street Journal: "In Election Review, Bush Wins Without Supreme Court Help,"
Los Angeles Times: "Bush Still Had Votes to Win in a Recount, Study Finds."
The Washington Post: "Florida Recounts Would Have Favored Bush"
CNN.com: "Florida Recount Study: Bush Still Wins."
The St. Petersburg Times: "Recount: Bush."