Bush: Evil will not have the final say

* PreznitBlinky speaketh: "'Evil will not have the final say. This great nation will prevail.'"

* via TPMM:

ED ROLLINS. . . If this House scandal is as big as I think it is from talking to people that are around it...There was a real little cabal on the Defense Appropriations Committee... if you end up with eight or nine or as many as 15 members of Congress, even a couple Democrats, getting indicted in the next three or four months, that may be sufficient.

* AL: "A lot of people--mostly conservatives--have accused Colbert of misjudging the audience. But the truth is, Colbert never intended to play to that stuffy self-important crowd. They, after all, were the butt of his jokes. I think Colbert's true target audience was himself in 20 years. He's going to look back on that performance and feel nothing but pride. He's going to know that he left it all out on the table, that he seized his opportunity and made the most of it. And, like me, he's going to laugh his ass off."

* Kleiman: " Charlie Cook's latest column is sure to bring smiles to Democratic faces.
The usual partisan intensity pattern — Democrats do best among adults, less well among registered voters, and even less well than that among likely voters— has reversed. The Democrats' edge among "very likely" voters on the generic Congressional ballot is now up to the high teens. Cook is talking about a 1994-level rout, but for the good guys this time."

* the bad news - tradesports has Repug control of House at 54% and Repugs in the Senate @ 80%

* kleiman on plame/iran:

Still, it will be fascinating to see how many of the politicians, journalists, and random pundits who have defended BushCo and savaged Joseph Wilson on the Plame affair will be willing to reconsider their position, at least conditionally, in light of the latest news. Most likely to finally decide that enough is enough: Tom Maguire. If Maguire jumps, we then get to find out whether all the Red bloggers who have eagerly quoted him in Bush's defense will be willing to quote him on the other side of the question. I'd say the odds were strongly against it."

what say you tom?

update: here's Tom:

"I have little doubt that somewhere in the intel community there is someone willing to repeat the story told to Raw Story's Alexandrovna Dostoevsky, but that does not make it true."

nice touch