Today’s edition of quick hits.<\/p>\n
* Watch The Decider become The Delegator<\/a>. It’s nearly four years and the president never thought about applying the code of military conduct to hired guns? Please, watch the clip.<\/p>\n * The reaction to “heated” the Wolf Blitzer\/Lynne Cheney interview from the weekend continues to reverberate a bit. Blitzer gave an on-air response<\/a> today, while Dick Cheney seems quite pleased<\/a> with his wife’s performance. “We refer to it around the house as the slapdown,” the VP told Fox News today.<\/p>\n * It’s a clean sweep — there are 22 daily newspapers in Florida, and all 22<\/a> endorsed Sen. Bill Nelson (D) over challenger Katherine Harris (R) this year.<\/p>\n * Jim Webb’s (D) novel that Sen. George Allen (R-Va.) is so worked about? It’s listed<\/a> on the Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps Official Reading List. As far as Allen’s concerned, is the whole Corps a bunch of perverts?<\/p>\n * Speaking of Allen, interest in his arrest records<\/a> continues to linger.<\/p>\n * I’ve received several inquisitive emails about the president and a “martial law” provision in legislation recently passed by Congress. Professor Michael Froomkin tackles the issue in a terrific post<\/a> today.<\/p>\n * Michael J. Fox gave a pretty classy response<\/a> to Rush Limbaugh. I have to give Fox a lot of credit; it would have been easy to deliver a far angrier, more personal, response.<\/p>\n * In 2004, many of you may recall that Bob Poulsen created an incredibly helpful online resource with presidential polling data. Thankfully, Bob has restarted the project this year in a site called 2.006k.com<\/a>. * By way of reader J.W., the district attorney’s office in Orange County, Calif., has charged 11 people<\/a> with fraudulent voter registration stemming from a Republican registration drive this year that resulted in dozens of Democrats unwittingly being signed up as Republicans. Shameless.<\/p>\n * Nevada gubernatorial hopeful Jim Gibbons (R) has a new defense for allegedly costing a woman in a Las Vegas parking lot — surveillance tapes, which didn’t exist last week, have surfaced and “prove that Jim Gibbons was never in that garage<\/a>.” It’s an odd defense, since Gibbons and the cocktail waitress in question both agree that they were both in the garage together at the same time. (What a tangled web….)<\/p>\n * Slate created a new game<\/a>: “Match the porn with the politician who wrote it.” Fun for the whole family.<\/p>\n * Finally, a reason for conservatives<\/i> to be paranoid<\/a> about electronic voting machines.<\/p>\n * In Iraq, the verdict in Saddam’s trial may be delay just a little bit<\/a> — until after<\/i> the midterm elections.<\/p>\n
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\n* What’s the latest with the Mark Foley scandal? On yesterday’s edition of The Chris Matthews Show, NBC Congressional Correspondent Chip Reid offered an interesting response<\/a> during Matthew’s “Tell Me Something I Don’t Know” segment. “I’m going to be a little cryptic here,” Reid began, then added, “”the Mark Foley scandal investigation is going to widen a little bit.” Hmm.<\/p>\n