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I have been a bit exhausted by most of this post-post-postmortem of the McCain campaign, relitigating old divisions that only really matter now on the off-off-off chance that Sarah Palin is the Republican standard bearer in three years. But I do find these old emails, published by CBS News, rather riveting. The whole thing starts when …

Justin updates his ugly chart with today’s bad news.

If you thought the whole Dana Milbank/Nico Pitney battle was fun last week, just imagine the raw material that CNN host/Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz now has to work with this Sunday.

As Mike Allen reports in Politico, “For $25,000 to $250,000, The Washington Post has offered lobbyists and association executives …

I have a new story about the White House effort to keep the Stimulus popular and on track in the next newsstand issue of TIME (with a value-added eye-popping picture and charts that you can’t get online, so subscribe, $1.99 for six weeks). It starts like this:

Fueled by Coke Zero and a double-chocolate protein bar, Vice President Joe

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(Via Gawker, which notes that Andy Cobb, the guy playing Sanford, even sort of looks like him.)

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is here. It tops out at $172,200.

After I mentioned in yesterday’s Al Franken story that both Senator Ted Kennedy and Robert Byrd have been absent due to medical reasons – thus making the Dems’ majority more like 58 than 60 — I got a lot of questions about Byrd’s health. Byrd was hospitalized after a fall in his home the week of May 11 and released yesterday, …

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The flood is slowing–by a trickle. ADP, the paycheck company, reports an estimated 473,000 jobs were lost in the United States in June. That’s 35 percent less than the amount of lost jobs in March, when the bloodletting peaked, but only 2 percent less than the amount of lost jobs in May. Economists now estimate that the economy will …

Michelle Obama has unwittingly caused a national French debate over working on Sundays. It seems the First Lady wanted to take Sasha and Malia shopping while there: the problem was virtually every store in Paris is closed on Sundays. There is a ban in France, a Catholic country, on working the day God rested. Embarrassed, President …

A couple weeks back, I wrote about the turmoil in the office of the Inspector General for Amtrak. More details have since come out. The head of that office for 35 years, Fred Weiderhold, Jr., it turns out, retired just one day after a independent report he had commissioned was released, documenting a number of actions by Amtrak …

I am on principle a defender of romantic love, and all the absurdity and pain it can bring. There is something noble about it, something that must be praised and cherished, even when it doesn’t make sense. But the more I watch Mark Sanford, the more I think he is conflating love with self-absorption, as if the two went together …

Norm Coleman, in a statement this afternoon: “I join all Minnesotans in congratulating our newest United States Senator – Al Franken.”