Hillary Clinton gets into the anti-surge legislation game.

Update: Here’s some video of Clinton at a press conference introducing her bill.

Late update: Now Barack Obama is saying he’ll introduce Iraq legislation, too.

Tony Snow tries to explain the new wiretapping compromise. How’d he do?

Behold! The full text of the nonbinding resolution introduced today by Sens. Joe Biden (D-DE), Carl Levin (D-MI), and Chuck Hagel (R-NE).

The key line: “it is not in the national interest of the United States to deepen its military involvement in Iraq, particularly by escalating the United States presence in Iraq.”

Paging Wolf Blitzer and other pundits: Please read this the next time you feel moved to say that John McCain “likes straight talk.”

Sigh. It’s hard getting dumped.

Just ask Mark Levin, resident legal mind of nutball right-wing authoritarianism in early 21st century Washington, DC. Actually, the resident legal mind of nutball right-wing authoritarianism these days is really probably John Yoo. But we’re talking a bit more the low-brow, second-tier chat show niche here. In any case, here Levin quite rightly has a fit over the fact that the program the administration spent like — what? — a year saying was vital to national security (warrantless wiretaps) can now apparently be brought under constitutional supervision without any problem whatsoever.

Hmmm. Looks like AP may have filled the John Solomon slot.

It’s not over. Key passage from the article in the Times …

The administration said it had briefed the full House and Senate Intelligence Committees in closed sessions on its decision.

But Representative Heather A. Wilson, Republican of New Mexico, who serves on the Intelligence committee, disputed that, and some Congressional aides said staff members were briefed Friday without lawmakers present.

Ms. Wilson, who has scrutinized the program for the last year, said she believed the new approach relied on a blanket, “programmatic” approval of the president’s surveillance program, rather than approval of individual warrants.

Administration officials “have convinced a single judge in a secret session, in a nonadversarial session, to issue a court order to cover the president’s terrorism surveillance program,” Ms. Wilson said in a telephone interview. She said Congress needed to investigate further to determine how the program is run.

Is it all a sleight of hand?

Republicans use poison pill to derail ethics reform in the senate.

No ethics reform unless the Republicans get a line item veto.

Call it what it is. The senate Republicans don’t want an ethics bill. The corruption’s just to sweet for them to let go of.

Today’s Must Read: Iraqi PM Nouri al-Maliki says Bush admininstration criticisms of him only embolden the terrorists.

Dems to press Gonzales on US Attorney dismissals; Carney says Don’t have a cow.