Sen. Cornyn decides to cough up 1/5 of Sir Allen Stanford’s contributions.

If you’ve been out of pocket since yesterday and missed CNBC’s Rick Santelli going off on the Obama foreclosure relief plan (a Google search for “Rick Santelli” offers “Rick Santelli rant” as an alternative search term), here’s a snippet of his rant and Robert Gibbs’ response today at the White House press briefing:

(See more at CNBC.com and MSNBC.com)

Asked at today’s press briefing whether Sen. Roland Burris should resign, Robert Gibbs all but gave him the old heave-ho:

(See more at CNN.com)

Reich: Countering Conservative Claptrap on the New Deal and the New Stimulus.

Johnny Damon can’t pay his bills because he had his money invested with “Sir” Allen Stanford.

Burris’s Chief of Staff resigns.