Woodward Book Says Afghanistan Divided White House  —  WASHINGTON — Some of the critical players in President Obama's national security team doubt his strategy in Afghanistan will succeed and have spent much of the last 20 months quarreling with one another over policy, personalities and turf, according to a new book.

Emanuel, Eyeing Chicago Run, Could Leave the White House in October  —  White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel Olivier Douliery / Getty Images  —  White House aides are preparing for the possibility that Rahm Emanuel may step down as chief of staff as soon as early October if he decides …

W.H. embraces Woodward book  —  Administration officials think Bob Woodward's portrait of a decisive Barack Obama at the helm of the Afghanistan war, willing to buck his brass and Democratic doves, is a public relations winner - and enough to overshadow revelations of nasty West Wing-Pentagon infighting.

Cuomo leads Paladino by six just points  —  Democratic gubernatorial nominee Andrew Cuomo, who had led the GOP field by thirty points for most of the year, is now leading Republican rival Carl Paladino by just six points among likely voters, an astonishing new Quinnipiac University poll shows.

Andrew Breitbart ‘Pissed’ at Glenn Beck?  —  Kausfiles Buries the Lede: Andrew Breitbart, a friend of mine,* gave a talk last night to a Republican club in Malibu.  His brand-new right-wing media empire is coming off a string of minor victories—exposing the sordid reality of a politician …