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1:55 PM ET, February 8, 2007

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Statement on Campaign Bloggers — The tone and the sentiment of some of Amanda Marcotte's and Melissa McEwan's posts personally offended me. It's not how I talk to people, and it's not how I expect the people who work for me to talk to people. Everyone is entitled to their opinion …

Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Russert and Me — I was the most surprised person at the Scooter Libby trial yesterday.

Discussion: Maine Web Report, Booman Tribune and CBS News

Jeff Goldstein / protein wisdom:
Okay, so maybe a few more words on this whole Marcotte dustup.

Discussion: Little Green Footballs

Edward Epstein / San Francisco Chronicle:

GOP makes much ado about the size of Pelosi's plane — The House speaker has had the use of a government jet since the Sept. 11 attacks — (02-08) 04:00 PST Washington — The way Speaker Nancy Pelosi will travel home to San Francisco and on official business is the latest tempest to hit the House of Representatives.

Discussion: ABCNEWS and Outside The Beltway

Washington Times:

Pentagon limits Pelosi jet size — The Department of Defense yesterday sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that puts limits on the size of the plane she may use to travel across the country and restricts the guests she can bring, The Washington Times has learned.

Discussion: Right Wing News, Scared Monkeys and Media Blog

Michael Roston / The Raw Story:

Pelosi calls for 'mandatory action' to control greenhouse gases, hopes for Energy Independence Day — Republican says plan will cost US jobs — Citing "a growing chorus of voices," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) called Thursday for "mandatory action to reduce greenhouse gas pollution …

MSNBC:

Pelosi: I'll fly commercial — Speaker says politics behind whispers she wants a bigger plane — WASHINGTON - Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., hinted her opposition to the war in Iraq is behind the storm over her desire to fly non-stop from Washington to her home in San Francisco.

Discussion: QandO, Pajamas Media, Redstate, Think Progress, Talking Points Memo and Blue Crab Boulevard

Matt Apuzzo / Associated Press:

Russert on the Hot Seat in Libby Trial — WASHINGTON (AP) — NBC's Tim Russert got the sort of "Meet the Press" interrogation he usually gives to his guests as attorneys Thursday flashed excerpts of his previous statements on a video monitor and asked him to explain inconsistencies.

Discussion: Kesher Talk, Dean's World and Pajamas Media

Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Tim Russert, on The Uncomfortable Side of a Question

Discussion: New York Times

Swopa / Firedoglake:
Libby Live: Tim Russert, Three

Discussion: Hullabaloo, The Strata-Sphere and Macsmind

Washington Post:
Russert Says He Didn't Tell Libby About CIA Officer

Discussion: MSNBC, Firedoglake, TAPPED, Think Progress, The Heretik and The Moderate Voice

Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
What Is Russert's Game (And Is Fitzgerald Helping Him Play It?)

Discussion: Firedoglake, The Huffington Post and Kesher Talk

Shailagh Murray / Washington Post:

7 GOP Senators Back War Debate — Lawmakers Had Blocked Action on Troop Resolution — Senate Republicans who earlier this week helped block deliberations on a resolution opposing President Bush's new troop deployments in Iraq changed course yesterday and vowed to use every tactic at their disposal to ensure a full and open debate.

Kate Zernike / New York Times:

Allied With Democrats, Lieberman Easily Aligns With Republicans — It came as little surprise that when Senate Republicans blocked debate Monday on a resolution that would have opposed President Bush's plan to increase troop levels in Iraq, Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, erstwhile Democrat, sided with them.

Discussion: Sirotablog

Newsweek:
Maybe the Duck Isn't So Lame

Discussion: Taylor Marsh, The Heretik, Liberal Values and Talking Points Memo

Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
House Sets Path for Iraq Vote, but Must Decide What to Say

Discussion: The Corner and First Read

Nibras Kazimi / New York Sun:

Blackout of the Press — Abu Omar al-Baghdadi made his grand entrance onto the jihadist stage on October 12, 2006, and since then he's delivered two very important speeches — the more recent one came out last week — and has taken credit for much of the spectacular outbreaks of violence in Iraq of late …

Dr. Rusty Shackleford / The Jawa Report:
Al Qaeda in Iraq Crumbling: al Masri on the run

Discussion: NPR and Multi-National Force

Multi-National Force:
Suspected senior IED cell leader detained, terrorist safehouse …

Discussion: Mudville Gazette

Matthew Yglesias:

Jonah Goldberg Day! — Two years ago today, Jonah Goldberg threw down the following challenge to Juan Cole: … Since Goldberg enjoys throwing a little smear-job in with his punditry, he also offered this: … Got it. So we have a prediction, along with the insinuation that Professor Cole …

Discussion: Nitpicker, Obsidian Wings, The Huffington Post, Unclaimed Territory, PoliBlog (TM), rubber hose, Daily Kos, Editor and Publisher, Winds of Change.NET and Opinion L.A.

Roger Simon / The Politico:

Obama Off and Running — Barack Obama smiled when I asked him why white people always call him "unthreatening." — Does a black man have to be "unthreatening" to get elected president in 2008? I asked. — "Well, look, our racial politics are complicated in this country," Obama said.

Discussion: Washington Post, First Read and Daily Kos

New York Times:

Mormon Candidate Braces for Religion as Issue — As he begins campaigning for the Republican presidential nomination, Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, is facing a threshold issue: Will his religion — he is a Mormon — be a big obstacle to winning the White House?

Discussion: Captain's Quarters, Wonkette, First Read, Article VI Blog and Daily Pundit

Reuters:

Hillary Clinton should ditch the trousers: Versace — BERLIN (Reuters) - U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton should tap into her feminine side and wear dresses and skirts instead of trousers, fashion designer Donatella Versace was quoted as saying on Thursday.

Ryan Grim / The Politico:

Bush Wants Funding Jump for Anti-Drug Ads Rated as Useless — President Bush has proposed a significant jump in funding for an anti-drug advertising campaign that government-funded research shows is at best useless and at worst has increased drug use among some teens.

Discussion: The Carpetbagger Report, FishBowlDC and Romenesko

Democracy in America:

Baseless claims — ANDREW SULLIVAN cites the conventional wisdom on Rudy Giuliani today: the Republican party is now virtually the political wing of organised "Christianism", and the religious base will savage the secular, gay-friendly and abortion-rights-supporting New Yorker.

Discussion: The Daily Dish

Jim Lindgren / The Volokh Conspiracy:

MANY 1967-72 SPITTING INCIDENTS ARE DOCUMENTED IN THE PRESS. Hundreds of Vietnam-era veterans have publicly claimed in recent decades that they were spat on by citizens or anti-war protesters because of their military status either before they went to Vietnam, on leave, or after their return from overseas.