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...or now, as the media would have you believe it. Polls are already out and Kay Bailey Hutchison is winning!

(And if she isn't, Perry is totally probably losing).

And according to other media sources, Bill White is definitely possibly running for Governor. Maybe.

Talk about things ending not with a bang, but with a whimper:

The Justice Department announced Friday that it would pay $4.6 million to settle a lawsuit filed by Steven J. Hatfill, a former Army biodefense researcher intensively investigated as a “person of interest” in the deadly anthrax letters of 2001.

What might Idaho Republican Larry Craig, he of the wide stance, and Louisiana Republican David Vitter, he of the brothel speed dial, be cosponsoring in the Senate?

Actual headline, true story: "McCain pushes free trade at Ohio auto plant"

There's no shortage of good news for Texas Democrats over the last few days. BOR had this yesterday and I'll point you to it now: Rick Noriega just won Senator Barbara Boxer's PAC for a Change "Choose a Challenger" contest against a field that also included Al Franken and Mark Warner. As a result, Noriega will get support throughout the election cycle from Boxer's organization.

Words, they escape me:

I don't know precisely what it is in this story about Hillary Clinton's return to Capitol Hill and to work in the Senate that makes me happy, but I really liked reading it. I suppose I have Dana Milbank to thank.

The Justice Department, as of late, has been displaying a serious hiring bias against liberal and Democratic applicants. But don't take it from me, my friends: check out the findings of this internal Justice Department audit.

Just for you: ThinkProgress has the latest nugget from Bill Kristol, that word sorcerer from Beyond Reason, in which he says that if Obama gets elected, Bush will attack Iran.