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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 »

The Post today takes a look at how jury selection’s going over at the Scooter Libby trial. It ain’t easy, it seems, to find impartial jurors in Washington, DC. MORE »

* Barack Obama fires up an exploratory committee, thus ending the beginning, beginning the end, or maybe, just maybe, beginning the beginning. [WP, NYT, LAT]
* Democratic Presidential primary to be full of historic firsts, with an African-American and a woman candidate as front runners. [WP]
* Republican Presidential primary to be same as usual, with loudmouth racists up and down the ticket. [WP]
* SCOTUS says “Fuck it, we’ll do it later” to eminent domain case. [NYT]
* Lobbyists banging members of Congress have loophole in new reform package. [WP]
* Scooter Libby deserves your pity, as he might never find a jury in this jaded city. [WP, NYT]
* The Washington Post gives its young political readers a glimpse of the ghost of campaigns yet to come. [WP]

* Lawmakers follow through: everyone who said they intended to be against President Bush’s “new” Iraq plan seemingly still is. [WP, NYT]
* Weekend news shows to resemble shopping channel, if you’re in the market for a half-assed war plan. [USAT]
* US Embassy in Athens hit by bubble and squeak terrorists. [WP, NYT]
* Democrats get a mile high, chose Denver for 2008 convention. [WP, NYT]
* New stem cell bill gets House members ready to “booze up and riot.” [NYT]
* Christopher Dodd announces his last place Presidential run on last place radio show. [WP]
* Jews take over congress! [WP]
* White House gets around to thinking about maybe having trials for terror detainees. [NYT]

* ABC News chief White House correspondent Martha Raddatz rides dirty with a full clip in her pistola, will put Tony Snow into a coma. [The Swamp]
* U.S. District Court suckers bloggers into covering Scooter Libby trial. [Media Bloggers]
* Like the sun rises in the east, so to shall Al Sharpton run for president. [Wizbang Politics]
* Fred Fielding’s daughter, who worked for Cheney, is definitely hot-for-DC. [TPM Muckracker]
* Bill Nelson thinks Sherrod Brown is a grabastic piece of amphibian shit, makes him drop and do 42. [Hill Blog]
* Louisiana: where racist murders are like cockroaches that survive all manner of natural disasters. [Shakespeare's Sister]