Poll Vault

Speaking of polls, the Pew Research Center's latest has Obama with a solid lead over Clinton (54 percent to 41 percent nationally). Last month, the two were about equal.

Meanwhile, we hope things will be winding down come next week, when Puerto Rico phones in its primary results on Sunday. (Burning question—Will Ricky Martin's endorsement of Clinton today give her the island's nod?) Tuesday the final two democratic primaries happen in Montana and South Dakota. And then it is all over but the shouting.

And day three of the McClellan lynching goes on. Scotty is all over the TV, appearing on The Today Show this morning and popping up with my buddy Olbermann tonight. 

While the White House may be puzzled by all this, what I am puzzled by is the near riot that apparently broke out in NYC when promoters of the Sex and the City movie oversold tickets to the premiere. Listen ladies, I am pretty darn excited about this movie—feminism be damned—but methinks you might need to rethink some of your priorities if you are willing to riot over a movie ticket. I love SJP and all the other ladies, but really?

Strange days indeed.

Beam Me Up Scotty

As you would expect the GOP has their panties ALL in a bunch about Scott McClellan's new book—What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and What's Wrong with Washington.

McClellan apparently takes the Bush II White House to task on the Iraq War and its post-Katrina efforts, but not without a lovely stab at the liberal media. In reference to the war: "In this case, the 'liberal media' didn't live up to its reputation. If it had, the country would have been better served."

Now I will be the first to admit that the media has let themselves be kowtowed by Bush and his cronies one too many times, however when you are constantly getting hammered with the tag of the "liberal media," as well as being flagged as unpatriotic for even appearing to question anything Bush utters, it is understandable that the media watchdogs may roll over and play dead. Don't make it right, just makes it explainable.

Apparently the White House is "puzzled" by McClellan's book. Well it certainly isn't the first thing to confuse them and something tells me with only seven months to go (praise Jesus!) it won't be the last.

And something also tells me that 'ole Dubya no longer feels this way:

One of these days, he [McClellan] and I are going to be rocking in chairs in Texas talking about the good old days of his time as the press secretary. And I can assure you, I will feel the same way then that I feel now, [when McClellan resigned] that I can say to Scott, job well done.