Links to Read While You're Trying to Make Sense of Bush's Ramblings

• VP Cheney was way more involved in outing CIA agent Valerie Plame than anyone knew. Stay tuned, Scooter Libby's trial is going to be very interesting.

• Democratic lawmakers who stray too far from the party line could find themselves facing primary opponents financed by unions, trial lawyers and political activists like Moveon.org. These are groups that make up a large part of the core of the Democratic party, and they're going to make sure that the people for whom they've worked so hard actually vote in the interests of their constituencies.

• Bush will not mention Hurricane Katrina tonight, just as he's ignored New Orleans and the Gulf Coast since standing in front of props in Jackson Square a few weeks after the tragedy. Barney Frank, the incoming Chair of the Financial Services Committee, has called what is going on (or not going on, as the case may be) in New Orleans "ethnic cleansing through inaction," and has pledged to do something about it.

• An Inconvenient Truth nominated for two Oscars. See it.