There’s an interesting proposal floating around among House Democrats that would allow Dems to keep standing up to the White House on Iraq.

But it may not get very far in the Senate, however.

Not sure how many folks saw this but tucked into last night’s McClatchy piece on Rep. Doolittle (R-CA) was this passage …

Doolittle said he had information from sources he wouldn’t name that federal agents had executed search warrants recently against two other members of Congress – a Republican and a Democrat – in raids that hadn’t become public yet. He said he thought that those raids were related to the Abramoff probe.

Important to keep in mind, of course, that Doolittle is a serial bamboozler of the most egregious sort. And perhaps he’s arguing that FBI raids are actually a new congressional fad like frisbees or the Macarena. But I’m curious whether he knows something here or just more blowing smoke.

Late Update: TPM Reader DG flags this passage from a Post piece from before the fall when Doolittle was covering DeLay’s back …

A DeLay ally, Rep. John T. Doolittle (R-Calif.), said Republicans “are going to have to respond in kind” by filing ethics charges against key Democrats. From now on, he said in an interview, it’s a matter of “you kill my dog, I’ll kill your cat.” Doolittle said he plans to file ethics charges against a prominent Democrat but would not name the target.

Of course, Doolittle never did anything. No idea if the FBI has raided your cat’s scratch post.

Corruption, Alaskan style.

Oil company CEO to corrupt pol: “I own your ass.”

This should provide no end of entertainment. Some right-wingers apparently think Youtube is biased against them. So a crew of them have created Qubetv, a right-wing only Youtube, basically like a digital innertube for folks who can’t hack it out on the actual internet.

I guess it’s been years since I watched ABC’s 20/20 and John Stossel. Here he is tonight busting the ‘myth’ that gun control can prevent crime and showing the apparently abundant evidence that the more people are carrying guns the safer you are.

Memo to media and pundits: The public wants Dems to be confrontational with Bush and the GOP.

A nice illustration of Mr. Giuliani’s cowardice — can’t handle being criticized — and some boneheaded AP media coverage to boot. A nice weekend twofer.

Sally Quinn: I am impressed by Obama because here’s a black guy who’s finally overcome blackness.

Late Update: Quinn’s larger point is that: “We [i.e., frivolous Washington insiders who haven’t read the numerous articles about who Obama’s advisors are] don’t know who he is. Who are his people? Whom does he surround himself with? Whom does he listen to? Who gives him advice?”

Late Update: TPM Reader AN on Quinn …

Quinn seems to vaguely argue that its appropriate to ask who does Obama surround himself with because of his lack of experience. I don’t buy that’s the reason for her question but in either case the genuine question I have is this: Was Quinn asking the same question in 1999 when George W. Bush was running for President? I mean heck, aside from being a governor of a state where governors have less actual power compared to most states Bush had no other relevant political experience. Obama, on the other hand, was in the Illinois Senate for approximately 7 years prior to being elected to the US Senate.

The answer, I suspect, is no. But AN doesn’t realize that by virtue of family Bush was presumptively surrounded by good people.

The Post has a run-down on the latest reports that the firing of US Attorney John McKay may have been tied to what Main Justice apparently believed was his over-zealous investigation of the assassination of Tom Wales, a federal prosecutor in McKay’s office who was a big proponent of gun control laws.

DOJ spokesman Brian Roehrkasse explains why the DOJ failed to release documents that show that yet more of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’s testimony to Congress was false.

It was, said Roehrkasse, an “inadvertent mistake.”

Bush hits 28%. Clearly a perilous situation for the Democrats.