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The Politico is on the White House shakeup watch:

"Former Republican national chairman Ed Gillespie has emerged as a potential replacement to Dan Bartlett as counselor to President Bush, friends say.

"Questioned about the prospect Saturday night at a fundraising dinner for the Virginia GOP, which he now chairs, Gillespie said he was 'flattered at the notion.'

" 'It's not for me to rule it in or out,' he added, 'You'll have to ask the president.'

" 'We don't comment or speculate on personnel decisions,' said White House spokesman Tony Fratto."

Hmmm: I didn't see any denials in there.

All right, let's go to last night's Democratic debate in New Hampshire. Here's my insta-reaction:

They're all against the war.

Barack Obama was among the first to be against it -- and told John Edwards he was 4-1/2 years late to the party.

Edwards conceded the point, saying: "I should never have voted for this war . . . He was right, I was wrong."

Hillary Clinton, asked by Wolf Blitzer if she regretted not reading the prewar National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq, said: "Wolf, I was thoroughly briefed. I knew all the arguments." She never quite answered the question, but said we shouldn't argue about the past.

Joe Biden said, let's get real, it takes 67 Senate votes to pull out the troops and we don't have the votes.

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