If you work at the Environmental Protection Agency, you would probably think that your job includes being an Agent for Protecting the Environment. But what happens if you, say, do your job, and go after Dow Chemical to get them to clean up a dioxin contamination? The Bush administration forces you out. ABC's Political Radar and the Chicago Tribune have the story.

I knew Cillizza couldn't stay on vacation for a whole week. Here he presents an entertaining (and at times, cringe-inducing) list of the Top Ten Gaffes thus far in the 2008 presidential campaign.

The Chron reports that if Nick Lampson fends off the Republican hordes in November and remains in Congress, he'll get the chairmanship of the NASA's oversight subcommittee. That is some serious help from way high up in the Democratic House leadership, and very early in the game to be getting it.