Hosni Mubarak’s son and heir-apparent, Gamal Mubarak, proposes an Egyptian nuclear program.
Santorum body armor ad drops tomorrow. It’s a rejiggered version of the one they ran against George Allen last week in Virginia. Both voted against the same bill.
The Times and the Post both have stories in Wednesday’s paper on the evolving legislative battle over the President’s push for legislation legitimizing the use of torture for accused terrorist detainees. But the stories they tell are sharply divergent.
I’ve been on Justin Rood’s case to find me more information about the state of the negotiations over the president’s torture bill. But the Times piece left me inclined to cut him some slack since the Times reporters don’t seem to have any idea what’s going on either. The Times reporters couldn’t get much sense of how much the president has 
conceded in the on-going negotiations or whether the events of the last 36 hours makes a compromise more or less likely.
The Post, on the other hand, paints a decidely bleaker picture for the White House. While noting that an agreement could come at any moment, the Post portrays a legislative clock rapidly running out on the president’s plan to ram through torture and tribunal legislation to bludgeon the Democrats with in time for the November election. “Yesterday’s actions significantly dimmed prospects that Congress can complete its national security agenda before adjournment.” The paper also reports the rebellion moving to the House.
The Post piece even includes the telling and somehow touchingly feeble threat from Bill Frist that he, the Senate Majority Leader, may lead a filibuster against the Warner-McCain-Graham bill in the Senate.
I guess he’ll show them who’s boss.
Special rights for (certain Christian) terrorists (in Indonesia).
Trivia question: When admitted felon Rep. Bob Ney (R-OH) heads off to prison, how many former lawmakers will he join behind bars? That and other news of the day in today’s Daily Muck.
Burns, Frist, Santorum top CREW’s new bipartisan list of most corrupt members of Congress.
Sen. Allen (R-VA): I’m not a crypto-Jew and I’ll prove it right now!
From The Richmond Times-Dispatch …
Speaking with The Times-Dispatch, Allen said the disclosure is “just an interesting nuance to my background.” He added, “I still had a ham sandwich for lunch. And my mother made great pork chops.”
Can someone pass on to Sen. Allen that we hope this isn’t the first of several physical demonstrations of his non-Jewishness?
(ed.note: Special thanks to TPM Reader NM for the catch.)
This may really be a race again. The last two polls of the Lieberman-Lamont race (one out today, another yesterday) show a neck and neck battle — both showing Lieberman up by only two points.