Bob Reich on what today’s economic numbers mean why Obama will probably have to come back for more Stimulus.

Matt Cooper just talked to David Keene, head of CPAC, the sponsor of the big conservative confab down in DC this weekend (and a very big player in movement conservative circles) about whether we should be writing the obit of the GOP …

Having observed this game for a long time, I still

wonder why people go there. That Bobby Jindal story about being there in the office of the sheriff when he was busting through the red tape, even telling the goofball government authorities that they could come arrest Bobby too … well, turns out Jindal didn’t mean it in the sense of its actually being true. He meant it more in the very loose sense in which you say something happened when it didn’t happen because you heard much later that something kind of like that had happened when you weren’t there.

Late Update: Sort of funny to watch again in light of today’s revelation.–DK

Just when the election court in Minnesota had given Norm Coleman’s legal team a break by reversing itself on a decision to strike a witness’ testimony because Norm’s lawyers withheld evidence from the Franken team, it turns out there’s more evidence related to Coleman’s lawyers’ contact with this same witness that they still hadn’t divulged until Franken’s lawyer brought it out this morning on cross examination of the witness.

At issue: secret emails between Coleman’s lawyers and the witness informing her that they were going to put off disclosing her name and statements to the other side. Happily, Coleman’s lead lawyer threw his fellow lawyers under the bus in explaining the “mistake.” But how much of this was a mistake and how much of this was deliberate litigation strategy is not immediately clear. Let’s just say it smells a bit.

It’s pretty clear the three-judge panel has had it with Coleman’s lawyers. It’ll be interesting to see whether this latest episode exhausts any remaining benefit of the doubt they have in favor of Norm’s team.