A few days I ago, I chatted with Mike Lux, who was most recently a member of the Obama transition team as a liaison to progressives, about his new book, the present opportunity for dramatic change, and Obama’s call for post-partisanship:

It turns out that one of the Bushie burrowers in DOD’s Office of Detainee Affairs was heavily involved in the Pentagon Pundits scandal.

Obama will hit the road next week to sell the stimulus package, with stops in Gary Elkhart, Indiana, and Fort Myers, Florida, Robert Gibbs just announced in the daily press briefing.

Pam Hess reports:

The Obama administration will not prosecute CIA officers who participated in harsh interrogations that critics say crossed the line into torture, CIA Director-nominee Leon Panetta said Friday.

Asked by The Associated Press if that was official policy, Panetta said, “That is the case.”

Looks like Harry Reid is telling negotiators on the stimulus bill that if they’re going to cut the size of the spending provisions, then they should reduce some of the tax cuts in the bill, too.

Mark Blumenthal looks at whether the stimulus plan is losing public support.

Iowa guv turned Ag secretary pushing EPA for more ethanol in gasoline.

The Coleman campaign has been nothing if not inconsistent during the three-month post-election saga in Minnesota, but nothing quite beats asking the court to now count ballots that the Coleman campaign itself succeeded in getting thrown out just a few weeks ago.

Late Update: Alas, the Coleman campaign has announced that two previously uncounted ballots were found by an election official in one county. It will never end.

CNN reports that the Senate has a reached tentative deal for a $780 billion stimulus package.

Late Update: We’re getting mixed signals on whether it’s a done deal along the lines reported by CNN. Elana Schor reports.

As the ‘Day in 100 Seconds’ diehards among you will have noticed, there was no episode today. That’s because it was a special day in TPM land. While the editorial side of things went along more or less as usual today. It was with a skeleton staff, as our real world offices got packed up from the place we’ve worked out of for the last three years and moved to a new office about eight blocks away.