Inspired by this picture for the ages of Callista Gingrich meeting with Ellie the Elephant, tell us which is your favorite politico meeting with a stuffed animal/puppet friend.
Speaker Boehner budgets more money for outside lawyers to defend the Defense of Marriage Act.
I mentioned this morning a poll coming out today showing Herman Cain leading in some states. It’s out now. Cain is ahead in North Carolina, West Virginia and Nebraska.
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Obama on the wave of new GOP-passed voting restrictions: “I think that’s a big mistake, and I have made sure that our Justice Department is taking a look at what’s being done across the country to ensure that people aren’t being denied access to the franchise.”
If you dare, behold this photo and come up with your own caption. If you’re man/woman enough, that is.
A few times this year we’ve mentioned the ‘Murdoch Primary’, the all important race to get the support of Rupert Murdoch, various minions and capos of the Murdoch organization and of course the editorial support of Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post and so many other publications. Chris Christie, in case you didn’t notice, was being backed in a big, big way by Murdoch, Ailes and the rest. So he wasn’t just winning the Murdoch primary. He was the product of the Murdoch primary, you might even say a failed Murdoch/Newscorp effort to pull off a leveraged buy out of the GOP nominating process. Read More
Bachmann on rash of staff departures: This was the plan all along.