Pumped Up

1. Wasn’t the idea to reduce Palin to normal scale?

2. On purely Rovian terms (with steel at her back … and Charlie in the cozy sweater), ABC loses the power play.

3. Ready, on day one, to take over … the Cheney Energy Task Force.

4. Subliminal plug for: "Drill Baby, Drill."

5. Is this painting the picture of a small time state?

6. Freud alert.

(image: Donna Svennevik/ABC, via Getty Images via NYT. September 11, 2008)