I guess this is going to be a pretty interesting election. Rick Perry is now saying that any more emergency efforts by Ben Bernanke to resuscitate the economy would be “almost treasonous.” Watch.

In recent years Gov. Rick Perry has said that Social Security is a Ponzi scheme, that states should have the right to leave the system and even that he believes Social Security is unconstitutional.

Today he walked those comments back. A bit.

Perry asked in Cedar Rapids whether President Obama loves America. Perry responds, “You need to ask him.”

This remember is a governor who two years ago was wondering whether life under Obama might get so bad that he’d need to have his state secede from the United States.

That’s no ordinary bus President Obama is driving through the Midwest on. It’s the Secret Service’s new $1.1 million armed presidential ultra-bus. Maybe kind of like the one in Stripes.

Last week we put together a list of all the members of Congress who said that a default on US debt probably wouldn’t be such a big deal, until even coming up to the edge of default led to a downgrade of the United States. We had a good list. But we asked you for other examples. And you came through in a big way. So here’s the new revised and updated list. It’s a long one. Take a look.