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Karl Rove has been cited for contempt.  Rove has recently defied a committee subpoena, refusing to testify on the firing of federal prosecutors and the politicization of the Department of Justice. The recent Inspector General report seems to strengthen the case against Rove in that the report found members of the Justice Dept. guilty [...]

According to the latest Gallup Poll,(click HERE to see) Barack Obama has opened up a 9 point lead over John McCain.

The Tennessee Democratic Party uses the TNGOP’s closing of their annual fundraising event to do a bit of fundraising of their own.

This week the blogosphere has been filled with Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog and how that traffic crashed the site within just a couple of hours. (The new episode is up today and I’m headed over to see it shortly.)

... but I think Karl Rove's exit of the country supposedly on the date of his Subpoena to Appear before the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee is telling.

Karl Rove, who is now a private citizen, defied a Congressional subpoena today and refused to testify.

Heh.

Glenn Reynolds reports that Clifford Shoemaker, the Virginia trial lawyer who subpoenaed blogging librarian Kathy Seidel, got spanked by the judge for his efforts. Here's background on the case.

For those not masochistic enough to sit through a Genuine Soviet Show Trial, several former counsels for the administration faced a House Committee in hopes that Jerry “Go” Nadler could get the quote he was looking for.

Oh, it ain’t nothin’!  Just John Ford being John Ford, right?  I don’t have time this morning to do too much digging, but if I’m not mistaken, Bredesen at first remembered his conversation with Ford about the contracts. Then a subsequent report said that Bredesen didn’t remember.  Now he remembers again.

McClellan on his book: What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception -