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Red State has the memo sliming Judge Alito that I mentioned in this post. But Red State goes one better: Mike Krempasky's got the names of three DNC'ers who worked on the document. Busted. The memo in Word format is...

Arlen Specter today announced that confirmation hearings for Alito won't begin until January 9th, a date beyond the pre-Christmas conclusion that the President had been hoping for. In the long haul this is probably a pretty good trade. Republicans have...

On Sunday night Senator Hagel made a trip to speak at the Manatt-Phelps poli-sci lecture in Ames, IA, a trip that totally flew under my radar until tonight. It sounds as though he's testing the Presidential waters with a few...

Or so the International Herald Tribune announces. Am I the only one who thinks that this is the wrong strategy? Alienated youth are going to be contemptuous of anything the government says, and will generally try to do just the...

Dana Milbank: Pussy Galore. You can see Milbank in action in this post....

[Administrative note: I wasn't very clear on the status of today's vote when I initially posted this, so I want to clarify what's going on. Today's vote was a motion vote, requiring 2/3 to suspend the rules and adopt the...

CBS REPORTER TO WHITE HOUSE: ALITO 'SLOPPY SECONDS?'

CBSNEWS Chief White House correspondent John Roberts described the President?s selection of Judge Samuel Alito as ?sloppy seconds? during today?s press gaggle with White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan. John Roberts: ?So, Scott, you said that -- or the President said, repeatedly, that Harriet Miers was the best person for the job. So does that mean that Alito is sloppy seconds, or what??

Tacky, or what?

Apparently this was too much even for CBS, and someone there must have hit Roberts upside the head with a cluebat:

Scott McClellan Gets Apology from the 'Other' John Roberts

Sometimes the badgering gets pretty brutal at the daily White House briefings. Possibly reporters quietly apologize to Press Secretary Scott McClellan (though we doubt it). It's rare, however, when the apology is quite public.

It happened today after CBS newsman John Roberts asked McClellan if today's appointment of a new nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court amounted to little more than "sloppy seconds, or what?" Among other things this has a rather unfortunate sexual connotation.

Another reporter caught in the act of being himself!

?At the morning White House gaggle, I used an unfortunate choice of words in a question to Scott McClellan. Please be assured that there was no perjorative intent to my question. I was merely attempting to reconcile past statements about Harriet Miers with the President's new nominee for the Supreme Court. "The early morning White House gaggle is an informal, free-wheeling and often irreverent forum, which is not broadcast and generally not publicly available.

In other words, nobody was supposed to notice even THAT degree of mudball throwing at McClellan - after all he works for Bush and is therefore only fair game.

"Obviously, my tone this morning was a little too casual."

Obvious at least after the above-mentioned cluebat session.

Finally, no MSM apology would be allowable without the mandatory "weasel out" statement - don't actually apologize for the statement - apologize for someone else being so up tight that they took offense.

"As we all experience from time to time, it was one of those 'oops' moments which we wish we could rewind and re-record. I apologize to anyone who took offense to my poor choice of words. I can assure you I meant none."

Building on the previous post, perhaps it is possible that Daschle was duped by the Bushies. Via Instapundit, here's what Bull Moose has to say to that: The Moose does not have to trust George W. Bush to hold that...

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