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That’s right, it’s a detailed diagram of the entire Plamegate conspiracy lovingly printed on a cheap white sleeveless men’s shirt. Order some for your friends! What did the President wear and where did he get it! MORE »

* Democratic Presidential candidates traipse across the country calling on each other to denounce things, people. [WP, NYT, LAT]
* No one’s partying the night away in Chatta-vegas over President Bush’s tax-credit health insurance plan. [WP, NYT]
* Prince Harry will play soldier for a while in Iraq before going back to a life of leisure he neither earned nor deserves! [AP]
* Libby Trial’s focus on “the semantics of lying” totally screwing up chances for an Iran war. [WSJ]
* So, apparently DHS operates 325 “immigrant detention centers.” They are also, apparently, shitty places to be detained. [NYT]
* Loose coalition of “dudes on the couch” sues HHS and FDA for saying mean things about weed. [NYT]

* Loveless House debate on Iraq will nonetheless be “full-throated.” [WP, NYT]
* Mitt Romney has everything you could want in a candidate, regardless of what it is you want. [WP, NYT]
* Duke Cunningham banged two Hawaiian hookers. Brent Wilkes paid them $1100. [WP, NYT]
* Online ad spending for the Presidential campaigns to total $80 million. Try not to cry if Obama doesn’t buy a banner on your dating blog. [WSJ]
* Libby trial gives country blue balls, Dick won’t testify. [NYT]
* Everyone on the Metro is either fiddling with a blackberry or a detonation device. [USAT]
* Snow has closed Georgetown University today. All of Douglass Feith’s “Plausible Deniability: 101″ students are directed to his op-ed. [WP]

Just in case you accidentally had some remaining interest in the Scooter Libby trial, the defense has decided to ensure that it stops here: Neither Scooter nor Dick Cheney will be testifying. MORE »

* Mitt Romney and John McCain are raising more money from conservative donors than the guy no one’s heard of, and the gay one. [WP]
* House opposes war in 100 words or less. [WP, NYT]
* President Bush ignores anyway, obv. [LAT]
* Libby trial meme of the day: Bob Woodward likes talking dirty with Richard Armitage. [WP, NYT]
* Shillest of the “right wing shills” make John Edwards’ campaign blogger cry, leave. [WP]
* The Basketball Diaries, by George Tenet. [NYT]
* Majority of Americans want troops, Bush home by 2008. [USAT]

Walter Pincus revealed today at the Scooter Libby trial that Mr. Ari Fleischer, the slimiest former administration official of all, leaked Pincus the Valerie Plame story, not Scooter. MORE »

* House floor debate on Iraq resolution to reward fans of awkward, cartoony visual aids. [WP]
* Proposal for new Supreme Court TV channel to reward fans of awkward, cartoony justices. [WP]
* Barack Obama speechifies Iowa. [WP, WSJ]
* Hillary Clinton speechifies New Hampshire. [WP]
* Robert Gates sweet-talks Vladimir Putin. [NYT]
* Weapons used against American forces in Iraq are not all Iranian, just the really nice ones. [WP, LAT]
* Talkin’ ’bout Dick Cheney and the Libby Trial. [NYT, NYT]
* Grammy Awards feature political undertones, poppy goodness. [LAT]

AP-APNEWSALERT

WASHINGTON (AP) - Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has rested his perjury and obstruction case against former vice presidential aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby.

And now it’s all over but the lyin’. MORE »

Court TV is at the Scooter Libby trial, and, as can be expected, they’re blogging up a storm… about the other bloggers at the Scooter Libby trial! MORE »

Libby’s defense could be the dumbest we’ve ever heard. Today, an FBI agent testified to the effect that Scooter lied to her, repeatedly, about leaking Plame’s name to journos, repeatedly. This was the cross-examination: MORE »

Here was another fun tidbit from the end of the yesterday episode of Scooter Libbypalooza: MORE »

Who could hate that face??? MORE »

The Scooter Libby trial begins for real today! And here’s the good news: our good friend the Washington Post reporter with a thousand conflicts of interest has made the jury! MORE »