Say what you will about the crack team at the ABC Political Unit, but nothing--nothing--gets by them. Sooner or later, that is.

Opening line in today's (Wednesday's) Note:

Who will the American people be rooting for when Tom DeLay chats up the Capitol Hill press corps today and what is the Elephant/Donkey environment in which the session will take place?

We are too busy pulling old, nasty lint from The Note navel to answer the first question...

And last Wednesday's quote of the day from the NY Observer.

Does it really take Halperin that long to read the Observer? Or is that just how long it takes before someone picked it up off the bathroom floor on DeSales Street?