He’s not ready for prison; but prison’s ready for him. Scooter Libby gets an inmate number.
Hillary’s second-quarter fundraising total is in: Around $27 million.
Michael Bérubé has the inside story of a Giuliani family road trip. Highlight: Judith Nathan attacked by ferrets.
House Republicans denounce Democratic “stonewalling” of U.S. attorney investigation. Yeah, you read that right.
And here’s Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) on the administration’s “Nixonian stonewalling”: “in America no one is above law.”
Two new polls find that GOP Senator John Sununu of New Hampshire is extremely vulnerable to a Dem challenge in 2008.
Conyers responds to White House stonewall, says they’ll press on “to enforce the rule of law set forth in these subpoenas.”
Update: Rep. Linda Sanchez (D-CA) adds: “It’s tough to get lectured on the Constitution from the same Administration that said the Vice President is his own branch of government.”
OK, now it gets ugly. In response to a congressional subpoena for White House documents and testimony related to the U.S. attorney firings, the administration is invoking executive privilege. We’ll have more soon.
Update: Here’s the White House’s letter invoking executive privilege.
We’ll probably have more on this at Election Central later today. But this is a very telling little nugget from the ARG poll about how the senate looks in 2008 and particularly the striking and on-going transformation of New Hampshire politics.
According to the just-released ARG poll, Jeanne Shaheen — who I don’t think is even an announced candidate yet — is beating Sen. Sununu by 57% to 29%. Tellingly, Shaheen is pulling 30% of the self-identified Republican vote.
That would be a rematch of what I can personally testify was a heart-breaking race back in 2002 in which Sununu pulled it out in the end.
I mean, a sitting senator polling 29% against a named candidate. That’s real bad.