Meanwhile, Laura Lee Donoho emails: "My son emails me from Iraq that he and his fellow troops are in a funk about the resignation of Don Rumsfeld. This is the first time in a long time that President Bush has really pissed me off."
JOHN BOEHNER will seek the Republican leadership in the House. The Hotline blog still calls it "Majority Leader," but of course it'll be the Minority Leader in the next Congress. Old habits die hard!