ANDREW SULLIVAN IS TAKING THE BOEING: According to a press release I got from Time: “TIME contributor and essayist Andrew Sullivan will begin posting his blog, The Daily Dish, on TIME.com starting in January 2006, TIME managing editor Jim Kelly announced today. . . . Sullivan will continue writing his blog throughout the week, just as he does today, only it will be posted on TIME.com. He will maintain full control over the content of his blog.”

Seems like a good model.

JEEZ, I’m busy even for me at the moment, which is producing lighter than usual blogging. Sorry about that, but I’ve got to get the book revisions back to the publisher before I leave for NYC tomorrow night. On that trip I’m taking the rough drafts of all my students’ seminar papers to read on the plane (they’re turning those in today) so that I can return them with comments before the weekend, so that they can get to work on their final drafts. And I just got page proofs of a law review article via email, which I have to get back by tomorrow, too. So blogging may continue to be light. . . .

Fortunately, this gadget is picking up some of the slack, even more than before. I’m cooking the Insta-Chicken for dinner tonight even as I work. Thank goodness for technology. Though, of course, if all these gadgets didn’t make the work easier, I’d probably do less of it. Hmm . . .

MORE PUSHBACK: The White House raps the Washington Post. I wonder if they’re going to start doing this sort of thing daily? It would be smart.

Maybe the press should learn to use Google. Instead of, you know, hoping that we don’t. . . .

UPDATE: Tom Maguire has been doing some research, too, and reproduces the speech that Senator Rockefeller doesn’t want you to hear. “How can he show his face?” Long political experience, and an unshakable faith in the press’s short memory, is my guess.

You know, the 2006 and 2008 campaign commercials are writing themselves. Expect lots of animated weathervanes. Hey, why wait?

ANOTHER UPDATE: The pushback continues:

WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Bush’s national security adviser defended the administration Sunday against accusations that it misled the nation about the need for war with Iraq as Democrats stepped up their attacks on the president’s candor.

Stephen Hadley told CNN’s “Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer” that those claims were “flat wrong.”

“We need to put this debate behind us,” he said. “It’s unfair to the country. It’s unfair to the men and women in uniform risking their lives to make this country safe.” . . .

Hadley said the intelligence Bush used for those arguments “was roughly the same intelligence that the Clinton administration saw.”

“They drew the conclusion that Saddam Hussein was a threat to peace, that he had weapons of mass destruction. They acted against him militarily in 1998,” Hadley said, referring to the administration of Bill Clinton, a Democrat.

No, really, why not start running those TV ads now?

And you could even use this video of Ted Kennedy.

HAS THE SENATE suspended the writ of Habeas Corpus?

MICKEY KAUS endorses Bob Krumm’s sure-fire plan for Democratic victory in 2008.

TIGERHAWK HAS POSTED an update of Steven Den Beste’s strategic overview of the war — and I found out via an email from Den Beste, who thinks it’s “excellent.”

JOEL SHEPHERD REPORTS FROM PARIS, where riots continue: “Unbeknownst to some critics, Nicolas Sarkozy is not entirely unpopular in the affected regions — he’s actually quite popular with many who aren’t rioting. He’s also been the only senior politician for quite some time trying to do something about it.”