Today's Fresh Meat

[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

“Congress must not let the president stand in their way,” the Sac Bee editorializes this morning, with regard to the new energy bill passed by the House of Representativesand currently being debated in the Senate. The Bush Administrationopposes the higher fuel economy standards which the bill would enact,and which is estimated to save the country 1.1 billion barrels of oilper day by 2020.

Mike Huckabee, riding on the support of Evangelicals, southerners, and conservatives, is now second in the polls behind Rudy Guiliani for the Republican nomination, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. Huckabee's response: "Why not me?"