President Obama tried to turn the conversation back toward the economy, but had to compete with Republican opposition and goats on slides.

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Matt Bevin, McConnell’s newly announced Tea Party challenger for next year’s Republican Senate nomination, says he’s ready to spend his own money on the campaign (of which he apparently has a lot). Meanwhile, the main Tea Party and Tea Party-leaning PACs, the ones who sometimes take out viable candidates, are saying they’re at least open to considering supporting Bevin.

The first President Bush shaves his head in solidarity with the 2 year old son of a member of his security detail who is undergoing treatment for leukemia.