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It seems clear all involved want this to go away: “in an unannounced trip to the White House press room, the president clarified remarks he made at the end of Wednesday night’s press conference, reiterating his point that ‘there was an overreaction in pulling Professor Gates out of his home.’” POTUS and punditry don’t mix.

“Over the past four years, Venezuela has witnessed alarming signs of state-directed anti-Semitism.” Chavez’s statements alone are full of references to the cruicifiers of Christ and Bolivar, and now armed men are attacking synagogues and conducting raids: “his mobilization of anti-Semitic rhetoric is the characterization of his entire opposition as anti-national.”

Sen. Hutchison was expected to waltz into this role, but Rasmussen shows Perry opening up a 46% to 36% lead over Hutchison, a Texas Politics Project poll shows him up 38% to 26%, and a Texas Lyceum survey shows Perry leading 33% to 21%. Why? Perry’s latched onto anti-Washington populism, and KBH is Washington incarnate.

Cheney’s response: “Scooter Libby is an innocent man who was the victim of a severe miscarriage of justice. He was not the source of the leak of Valerie Plame’s name. Former Deputy Secretary of State, Rich Armitage, leaked the name and hid that fact from most of his colleagues, including the President.”