• To follow up on Wyl's article from yesterday, a healthy majority of Americans, including 46% of Republicans, want Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi and their people to pull the string on this war.
  
  
• Thankfully, David Obey appears willing to make sure that happens.
  
  
• Question: If the Christian Right breaks with the GOP over Giuliani, will one of the second-string Republican candidates jump ship with them in hopes of garnering a higher profile? I'm thinking Huckabee or Brownback.
  
  
• Putin to step down as president when his term is over, in order to become Prime Minister. Democracy prevails!
  
  
• The GOP can try to tout the low Congressional approval ratings as a sign of failure by the Democrats, but they're still wrong, and they're still going down in flames next year:

  "Despite discontent with Congress this year, the public rates congressional Republicans (29 percent approve) lower than congressional Democrats (38 percent approve). When the parties are pitted directly against each other, the public broadly favors Democrats on Iraq, health care, the federal budget and the economy. Only on the issue of terrorism are Republicans at parity with Democrats."

• Here's an interesting discussion of potential nominees (from both parties) for Secretary of State. It's easy for me to see Jim Webb as a Vice Presidential candidate and Bill Richardson getting the pushed into the cabinet (albeit a more high-profile one) once more.