Palin & Biden

If you didn't watch the VP debate last night, it was rather tepid and uneventful. However, Joe Klein has an excellent analysis in TIME magazine today. You can read it here.






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On Capitol Hill

What a busy couple of days in Washington.

Harriet Miers, White House Counsel resigned.

John Negroponte resigned his position as National Intelligence Director. President Bush then nominated Negroponte for Deputy Secretary of State. President Bush chose Vice Adm. Mike McConnell to replace Negroponte as the new National Intelligence Director.

Over on the hill Nancy Pelosi was sworn in as the first female Speaker of the House and Harry Reid was sworn in as the new Senate Majority Leader. Rep-elect Keith Ellison (D-Minnesota) caused a stir by deciding to use Thomas Jefferson's copy of the Quran for his ceremonial swearing in today.

On the judicial side of things, newly released FBI files show that the late Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist had a "disturbance in mental clarity" when he was taken off the drug Placidyl in 1981.

Job shuffleboard, gender breakthroughs, and a hallucinating Supreme Court Justice. Who says it's boring to follow politics?