You probably know that Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA) is slated to give the Dems’ official response to President Bush’s State of the Union address tomorrow evening. But what about your response? For years at TPM we’ve been printing emails from TPM Readers. But how about video? With the proliferation of webcams, phone-cams and video cameras, putting together a short video response to the president’s State of the Union address is relatively easy to do for a great number and possibly the majority of our readers.

So, watch the State of the Union address tomorrow night and then respond. It can be funny or serious, short or long (though shorter the better), focused on a specific point about the president’s speech or about the speech in general. It’s up to you.

We won’t expect perfect lighting and picture quality. Just so we can see you talking and hear clearly what you’re saying.

Game? If you’re interested in participating, let us know today.

If you have questions, send them in now.

Later we’ll post on how to send submissions in and more details.

Lately I’ve been leafing through Bob Woodward’s State of Denial. And here’s one choice quote. It’s chief weapons inspector David Kay on Condi Rice. “She was probably the worst national security adviser in modern times since the office was created.”

It’s a kinder, gentler resolution. But even Sen. John Warner (R-VA), former chairman of the Armed Services Committee, is putting up his own anti-surge resolution.

Thank you! We noted last week that San Diego US Attorney Carol Lam was one of the US Attorneys recently canned by the White House. She’s already got Duke Cunningham in jail. And one of his two key bribers, Mitchell Wade, has already pled guilty. But Brent Wilkes, the uber-briber at the heart of the case, has been holding out for ages. Now, though, Lam has reportedly ordered her prosecutors to serve up the Wilkes indictment by February 15th, which happens to be my birthday. So, Carol, thank you.

You may remember back during the Foley craziness back in October, FBI sources floated the word that the anti-corruption public advocacy group CREW had received the emails in April rather than July, which is what CREW claimed. Well, the Justice Department Inspector General looked into it and it turns out those FBI sources were lying and CREW was telling the truth.

TPM Reader JB with some advance commentary on the State of the Union address …

When was the last time you watched a tape of Clinton’s SOTU from 1999? I showed sections of it to my Media and Public Opinion class last fall and it’s really a mind-blowing contrast to this year. This was right in the middle of impeachment and Clinton delivered a speech that was powerful and angry. He went through a list of accomplishments, of course, but these were actual accomplishments. Economic growth, jobs growth, surplus, peace…. on and on. One forgets. So he delivered this incredible speech to an audience — the Republicans in Congress — who clearly did not want to be there and did not want to hear it — but also the larger American public, who were of course far more receptive to his message. He was clearly angry that, given all of these amazing accomplisments, he was facing impeachment over a petty sex scandal.

So, here’s my question to you: can you think of one thing between last year’s SOTU and this year’s SOTU that Bush can claim as an accomplishment? Did even one thing go right for Bush this year? OK, I’ll spot him modest job growth, modest economic growth and some stock market growth. I suppose that’s something. But how about anything that he actually had anything to do with? On the other hand there’s Iraq, North Korea, China, Hamas, etc. etc. So what is he going to talk about?

How ’bout going back six years?

Let me hold the floor for a moment for a TPM personnel announcement. Many of you who are regular readers of this site have also become regular readers of TPMmuckraker.com, the site we launched almost a year ago “dedicated to chronicling, explaining and reporting on public corruption, political scandal and abuses of the public trust of all sorts.”

Next Wednesday, January 31st will be co-Muckraker Justin Rood’s last day at TPMmuckraker.com and TPM Media. But you’ll still be able to benefit from Justin’s muckraking tenacity since he’s moving on to a job as a producer for ABC’s investigative unit and its blog The Blotter.

Now, needless to say, we’re very disappointed to see Justin go. But I’ll note a hint of pride that the Muckraking venue that Justin and Paul Kiel have created over this last year was one where Justin’s abundant investigative skills could be so visibly on display.

When I raised money for what would become Muckraker back in November and December 2005, I said I wanted to hire a reporter or reporters who could focus on internet-based muckraking full-time. And I took a lot of time picking through all sorts of different resumes looking for people who I thought had not just the knack and flair and persistance and hunger for investigative journalism but people who could also make it work in the blog format. A more difficult combination than it probably seems. And I really don’t think I could have found two better people than Justin and Paul, each of whom have brought a unique and complementary set of skills to the project.

Justin has just that mix of fun and feistiness and crankiness and persistence that mark all the great investigative journalists I’ve known. Justin brought TPMm a wealth of Washington sources that have helped us break numerous stories over the last year. And not just the glitz ‘quotable’ sources or behind-the-scenes spoon-feeders, not even primarily those, but the less visible ones who lurk in the less glamorous world of document-dumps, earmarks, FOIA hounds and all those sundry subterranean operators, often motivated by better-left-unmentioned beefs, who nevertheless know the real scoops.

So let me thank Justin personally for all his hard work and all he’s help us build. We wish him well.

If you’d like to thank Justin, wish him well, or just get on his case, shoot him an email at the comments address up there on the upper right hand of the site.

More GOPers break ranks on Iraq. Now Boehner.

Breaking news out from ABC News: “DOCUMENTS SEIZED IN IRAQ REVEAL INSURGENT PLAN FOR ATTACK IN U.S., ABC NEWS’ PIERRE THOMAS HAS LEARNED”

I’m just shocked at the timing of this leak.

We’ve already had a good number of TPM Readers telling us they’re going to send us their video responses to President Bush’s State of the Union address tomorrow evening (see what we’re talking about here). And a number of you have asked, how do we send you guys the video? Good question. Check back tomorrow morning on TPM and we’ll have all the details about how to get it to us. Stay tuned.