Political bits

The right wing is bailing on Bush. Check out the names claiming permanent estrangement. (ThinkProgress, NewsHoggers.) After everything we've been through, they're bailing over immigration.

(I'll be very curious to watch the Bush approval number in the weeks ahead to see if immigration eats into that last 30%.)

(DKos) The new Surgeon General nominee ran a church that "minister(ed) to people who no longer wish to be gay or lesbian."

(Time) "A longtime Republican lawyer in Alabama swears she heard a top GOP operative in the state say that Rove "had spoken with the Department of Justice" about "pursuing" Siegelman (the Democratic governor,) with help from two of Alabama's U.S. attorneys." (TPM has alot more, and more, and more.)

(WaPo) Boehner is trying to lead a "rebranding" effort for the Republican House. (Someone needs to tell him it's not the brand, it's the product line.)

(Politico) The American Petroleum Institute takes to the airwaves with a series of ads aiming to stave off legislation eyeing their practices and profits.

Judge Reggie Walton said he would soon make public all the letters written in support of Scooter Libby at his sentencing.

And, if you didn't see it, that's some typo by Rep Wayne Allard.