Things didn’t work out in Maine, in the wake of Olympia Snowe’s retirement announcement, quite the way Democrats had hoped.

There’s this dingbat controversy afoot tonight that somehow that video of President Obama giving a speech up at Harvard Law School in 1991 has all the scary black man juicy parts edited out of it. That’s the line being put out by the Breitbart empire. So PBS’s Frontline, which actually has the original video, has put out the entire thing. You can see it after the jump … Read More

After spat on House floor, House Republicans place Rep. Barney Frank (D) in the official House Penalty Box for the remainder of the day. Must See Video.

Michele Bachmann: New “health care dictator” could decide how many babies you can have.

Newt Gingrich, Real American.

Attorneys for accused Amish hair-cutting mob say their clients’ beard razing wasn’t a hate crime, but just a faith-based trim.

This is pretty cool video of President Obama giving a speech on diversity at Harvard in 1990. After the jump … Read More

How do you gently suggest to Newt Gingrich that it’s time to get out of the race? Hard for me to figure. But if you’ve got an idea, tell Rick Santorum. He’s trying.

Romney says his new tax plan cannot be scored.

I noticed on twitter that David Frum, an unenthusiastic but genuine Romney supporter, said that whenever he sees Romney talking about something he clearly cares about he’s reassured by the thought of his being president. It’s when he’s talking about things that clearly aren’t big issues for him that he worries. And the problem is that it’s those issues that cable TV and the political scrum get most focused on.

This reminded me of a general theory of Romney that I’ve had since the latter days of the 2008 race; and it’s key from the point of view, I suspect, of many of Romney’s most enthusiastic supporters. Read More