Quick hits

Murtha gave a great response to the President's speech that actually had (gasp) facts in it. If I find the audio, I'll post it because he just oozes reason and credibility.

Here's the Whitehouse's text of the President's speech this morning. Did anybody actually watch it? And the press briefing is up but there's nothing in it.

Josh Marshall has two good ones. 1) Susan Ralston, the Rove aid who was rumored to have taken the Matt Cooper call out of the call log, left Rove's office for the Commerce dept. Guess that's what happens when you tell the truth about your boss. 2) Hastert and Blunt plan to keep the house closed two more weeks after the "holiday" break til Jan.31, which would give Delay two more weeks to try to wriggle off the hook. Thinkprogress has a better excerpt.

Firedoglake has piece of how Haley "I think the president is doing a fine job on hurricane relief" Barbour's family is benefitting from Katrina related no bid contracts.

Libby found a pretty good Juan Cole piece How Bush Created a Theocracy.

And Fitzgerald's grand jury visit was three hours.