Back in the saddle

• Diabolical arch-fiend Paul Wolfowitz is back to Washington, this time with a cushy State Department job. One can only wonder what kind of mischief he'll be up to in the next year, but if he lives up to his resume, it will surely involve gratuitous loss of human life and/or abuse of government funds to help this unctuous little goblin get laid. Exciting!
  
  
• I hate to say it, but Karl Rove is a smart guy.
  
  
• The Clintons just can't get past that whole cheap sex fixation, can they?
  
  
• I like that the National Security Adviser is publicly trying to get Dick Cheney's finger off the trigger:
  

  “The estimate offers grounds for hope that the problem can be solved diplomatically — without the use of force — as the administration has been trying to do,” Mr. Hadley said.

  
  
  
• Someone at the Romney campaign made a wise choice: deciding that Rudy is only going to dig himself further into the hole he's in on this "shag fund" story, so they're just going to stand by and watch politely. For example, there's really just no good way to account for city police officers getting paid to walk your mistress' dog.
  
  
• It seems Hillary has a little more work to do. First of all, you don't try to explain the nuances of immigration policy in a stump speech: you lay out broad position statements and take care of the details after the election, or in detailed papers available to the press and to particularly diligent voters. Also, what you extra especially don't EVER EVER EVER want to do is attack your opponent for something he wrote in kindergarten. It's sloppy, it reeks of desperation, and it's just plain petty. I look forward to hearing about how her dad could beat up Obama's dad.
  
  
• I just got an email from the Biden campaign with the subject line, "I will eat Rudy Giuliani alive at a debate." If he means this literally, politics just got a whole hell of a lot more interesting.