I think I just heard CNN report that the CBO says the senate health care plan will make everyone’s premiums higher but that there will also be some subsidies to help with some but not all of the increases. In case you missed it, we describe here what the report actually says.

We now seem to have the first really tangential details on what was behind the White House crasher story. The Post has it — and the gist is that, for reasons that are not at all clear, the Salahis had exchanged several emails Michele Jones, a recently retired, highly decorated Sergeant Major in the Army who is now a Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense, asking for Jones help swinging an invite to the State Dinner. Read More

White House state dinner crashers get the Matt Lauer treatment. Video soon …

Early this morning a lone Seattle policeman shot and killed the alleged Washington state cop killer whose sentence had been commuted by then-Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee nine years ago.

The D.C. City Council will hold an initial vote today to legalize gay marriage. That and the day’s other political news in the TPMDC Morning Roundup.

Jon Stewart on the White House party crashers: “The Real Asswipes of Washington, D.C.“

The Justice Department tells TPMmuckraker that the Office of Professional Responsibility’s report on torture lawyers, Yoo, Bradbury, et al. will be released “soon.” (Our hunch is today.)

Late Update: Or then again, maybe not. DOJ now signaling the release is not imminent. It’s a strange situation. The report has been in draft form for nearly a year. There was reportedly vigorous internal opposition to the report in the waning days of the Bush Administration. Attorney General Holder has promised its release. In his most recent congressional testimony in November, he said it would be released by the end of the November. Now it’s December and still nothing.

Dick Cheney: “I basically don’t” think the Bush Administration is responsible for the Afghanistan problem.

Accused Florida Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein has now been officially accused in a federal complaint.

Jim Manley, senior spokesman to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, takes a shot at John McCain’s proposed amendment to the health care reform bill:

The self-described foe of all earmarks is with one single amendment providing a big fat wet kiss for his friends in the insurance industry. All at the expense of millions of senior citizens.

More here.