This morning’s headline goes to Amy Klobuchar, who successfully boxed rival candidate, Mark Kennedy roundly about the head and shoulders. And boy, did he ever ask for it.

First, as our wee interlocutor, little Russ, intoned, the serious matter of North Korea, which was discussed with only one guest, John Bolton, our as yet unconfirmed ambassador to the UN.  Read more 

Dan Bartlett was all over the tube this morning, to defend the Bush administration against that newly renegade courtier, Bob Woodward, and you won’t be surprised to learn that Bartlett said almost the same thing, using identical language, at each stop.  Read more 

So listless is the body politic, apparently, that falling asleep during this morning’s Stephanopoulis edition was more of a danger than choking on my outrage. Or at least the right side of that body; the center left is anything but listless, but the SCLM is inured to influence from actual liberals.

Joe Biden was the featured guest, there to do battle against the latest model of Republican attack on Democrats - as Nazi appeasers. George Stephanopoulis offered three samples for Biden to react to, from Cheney, Bush himself, and Condi Rice.

Biden did just fine, with a minimum of his usual “me, myself, and I” tendencies.  Read more