Today’s edition of quick hits.<\/p>\n
* House Speaker Nancy Pelosi: “We need a new Attorney General<\/a>.”<\/p>\n * Asked if Alberto Gonzales would keep his job, White House Press Secretary Tony Snow told reporters this morning, “Well, we hope so<\/a>.”<\/p>\n * If you haven’t seen it, I recommend checking out the online Iraq Veterans Memorial<\/a>, put together by Robert Greenwald’s Brave New Films.<\/p>\n * How serious are the abuses at military recruiting centers? It’s reached the point in which a top Pentagon personnel official is “installing surveillance cameras<\/a> in recruiting stations across the country, the most dramatic of several new steps to address a rise in misconduct allegations against military recruiters — including sexual assaults of female prospects and bending the rules to meet quotas.”<\/p>\n * You may have noticed that a lot high-profile political journalists have married high-profile political operatives. The LA Times has the rundown<\/a> on the political power couples.<\/p>\n * I didn’t think it was possible, but Fox News’ Brit Hume has reached a new level of hackery<\/a>. Yesterday, instead of admitting he was wrong about Valerie Plame’s covert status, the Republican hatchet man accusing Plame of having lied under oath about her status in the CIA. Amazing.<\/p>\n * Also yesterday, retired Navy Admiral Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) and Win Without War director Tom Andrews made former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) and neocon Richard Perle look pretty foolish<\/a> during a debate on the war in Iraq on Meet the Press. Favorite moment: when Sestak suggested troops could be redeployed to countries such as Bahrain and Qatar; DeLay said those countries wouldn’t accept our troops; and Sestak calmly patted DeLay on the arm and said, “We have bases there.” Ouch. * Surprise, surprise, Bush’s tax cuts have created a far more regressive<\/a> tax code.<\/p>\n * South Carolina lawmakers are considering legislation that would force women<\/a> seeking abortions to view an ultrasound image of their fetus. “Politicians should not require a doctor to perform a medically unnecessary ultrasound, nor should they force a woman to view an ultrasound against her will,” said Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America.<\/p>\n * I have no idea how and why Wikipedia chooses to delete entries, but doesn’t “Friedman Unit<\/a>” deserve a page?<\/p>\n * Good news from the White House press corps: Helen Thomas is keeping her front-row seat<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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\n* LA Times columnist Gregory Rodriguez observed<\/a> over the weekend that there’s grumbling about whether Rudy Giuliani is “white enough.” Like Kevin Drum<\/a>, I have no idea what Rodriguez is talking about.<\/p>\n