10:43 PM: I think Mitt is doing halfway well in fighting back against this fusillade from Chris Wallace. But just how is very hard to figure. Romney has this fugue of words, which together just make no sense at all. Or perhaps it’s that each sentence makes logical sense but together the sentences amount to complete nonsense. And yet at the end of the statement, Mitt decides it all makes sense.
10:51 PM: That was a fascinating moment with the heckler. Did everyone see the Fox News security forces scramble to take him out?
The big moment of the debate so far — when Bachmann put Newt on his heels over Freddie Mac and influence peddling. After the jump … Read More
10:14 PM: Ron Paul in prime primal scream mode. But hard not to make sense arguing against a dingbat like Michele Bachmann.
10:16 PM: Axelrod tweets response to Mitt: “Wonder if bin Laden and demolished AQ leadership agree with Mitt that President Obama is timid on national security?”
10:20 PM: Feel like this debate has kind of gone off the rails for the last 45 minutes or so.
10:21 PM: Newt starts having fun. Opens up the full Newt lexicon. Brings down the house.
10:24 PM: Huntsmanspeak is like the anti-dog whistle in these debates. I’m not even sure the audience can hear him speaking.
10:27 PM: If a Rick Perry speaks coherently in the forest but no one hears, did it happen?
Dems and Republicans clinch payroll tax holiday deal to avert government shutdown.
9:58 PM: Anything happen yet?
10:01 PM: Headline from email just out from Bachmann: “K-Street Gingrich: Washington Insider, Crony Capitalist, Unreliable Conservative”
9:29 PM: Newt totally ducked the question. But it seemed to work for him. Meanwhile, Mitt’s answer was totally incoherent. Not sure if it will help Newt at this point. But he’s brought his A-game.
9:34 PM: Bachmann is far and away the first to lay a glove on Gingrich.
9:37 PM: Politifact just shot down Bachmann’s claims about what Politifact said. Too bad Politifact is so lame.
9:40 PM: Hearing folks point out that Mitt’s team must really think Newt’s sinking fast because he’s really not going after Newt at all.
9:42 PM: Sheesh. What happened to Rick Perry? Like someone jammed him with an Epi-pin or something.
9:02 PM: Newt starts off with the electability question.
9:04 PM: Newt comes out blazing. I’m not sure the facts are on Newt’s side. But given those facts he’s doing a pretty good job making his argument.
9:13 PM: Apparently Gov. Perry saved all the energy from the first 57 debates and packed it all into that one answer.
9:15 PM: So Gingrich has been teaching the Air Force war-fighting for forever? Well, sort of so.
9:18 PM: Telling juxtaposition between Mitt and Newt. Mitt explaining how he had to learn to get along with Dems of good will to get these done. Newt barrels back in Saul Alinsky Radical Africa Socialist Reagan. I helped Reagan kick ass. Done. I’m Newt and Approved this Ass Kicking Message. Newt Out.
Wisconsin GOP files suit claiming that Walker recall process violates Governor Walker’s 14th Amendment rights.