QUOTE OF THE DAY….From White House flack Tony Snow, reacting to the news that 140,000 of Karl Rove’s email messages have been lost:

That is a whole lot of email.

Sure, but most of it was probably just Viagra come-ons. So, you know, there was no real reason to bother archiving this stuff.

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