Via Talking Points Memo, Republican Representative Vito Fossella is expected to announce Tuesday that he will not seek re-election. My only peeve with this story is that it has a subtitle stating:

Sources: NY Rep. Fossella won't seek re-election after scandal over affair, child, DWI

This is kind of like saying the Bush administration had a scandal over prewar intelligence, Hurrican Katrina, the treatment of veterans and taking a pair of scissors to the Fourth Amendment.

Jon Stewart once asked, wistfully, "Oh Bill Kristol, are you ever right?" As Kristol continues to write columns, the odds are starting to stack up against it. ("It" being "Bill Kristol ever being right.")

Via Think Progress: If you aren't familiar with Michelle Malkin, you could say that she fancies herself as a New Media hybrid of Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh, lacking the clout and / or popularity of both. Witness the prime blogger outrage when she discovers that she has not been invited to take part in John McCain's weekly New Media conference calls.

In these late days, the question of who John McCain will pick to run with is... well, I'm interested in it, but it doesn't seem like anyone else is these days. Except for Mike Huckabee, who is now openly campaigning for the spot. I take that to mean that McCain told him no or nothing, and now Huckabee is trying to throw it out there as an option for the red meat conservative base. Very clever, Mister Mike.