Gawker has already made the best joke you can about this: The implicit compliment the NY Post is paying to Clinton may explain why Media Matters is not already on top of it.

Fidelis (“a Catholic-based advocacy organization established to help elect pro-life, pro-family and pro-religious liberty candidates to public office”) has announced that they will be using the resignations of Edwards’ bloggers (the second as of today) as a springboard for a series of ads, designed to draw attention this pressing issue: Cella said: “This whole episode [...]

1. Mood: Non-combative, conciliatory. Refused to indulge in the McCain-Lieberman tactic of saying the “Democrat party”–he’s still calling it that, by the way–is undermining the troops. Called the Democrats “patriotic” several times. 2. Iraq–nothing new here. 3. Iran–significant retreat from intel briefing: he doesn’t know whether or not the Iranian leadership has ordered the Quds [...]

Well, it looks like we’ll be invading Iran, huh? In other news, our former colleague Mike Allen got a nice little shout out for a venture those in DC may have heard something about (unofficial t’script thanks to pal MM): bush (calling on allen): michael, who do you work for? allen: politico.com, mr. president. bush: [...]

This piece, by Lawrence Kaplan, is the smartest thing I’ve read in a while about what’s actually happening on the ground in Iraq. It has the virtue of first-hand reporting from al-Anbar Province and some very good analysis about why the Baghdad “surge” is probably doomed. I differ from Kaplan on one point, however: he’d [...]