• My bad: Figuratively reaching across political boundaries in a blue tie, President Bush simultaneously took the blame for gaffes in Iraq and suggested we might soon engage Iran at sea.

• Keeps growing and growing: Another hopeful has thrown his hat into the ring in the fight for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination. This time it's the Connecticut Senator not named Lieberman, Christopher Dodd.

• Butt out: House members who like to take a little smoke break (ahem, Barack Obama) in the Speaker's lobby are going to have to find a new spot to blaze up as Nancy Pelosi has banned smoking there.

• Movin' on up: Residents of a Florida trailer park are selling the land they live on to developers in a deal that will make nearly all of them millionaires. That's a lot of fish sticks.