Our photographer Jeff Malet reminds me that Gary Johnson’s best laugh line from last night’s debate made it into our slideshow of the Top Ten Protest Signs of 2009.

Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) becomes the first Republican House Co-Sponsor of the Respect for Marriage Act, the bill that would repeal DOMA, the Defense of Marriage Act.

One of the big factors or mysteries of the GOP presidential primary context. Virtually all the polling data available says Mitt Romney is a substantially stronger candidate against President Obama than Rick Perry. But Republican voters don’t agree. They consistently say Perry is more likely to beat President Obama.

House Republicans tonight passed a government funding bill that pays for new disaster aid with partisan budget cuts. The bill now faces a very uncertain future in the Senate.

Candidates and surrogates react to gay soldier boos in post-debate spin room.

Did you miss the debate? Here’s the whole thing in 100 Seconds.

Those boos for the gay soldier who asked a question at tonight’s debate are coming up in questions in the post-debate ‘spin room’ down in Orlando. TPM’s Evan McMorris-Santoro is there and he’ll be bringing us more details.

Late Update: Huntsman condemns it.

Definitely the best moment of the debate: when Gov. Perry said he would make Herman Cain mate with Newt Gingrich.

10:37 PM: That was a really weird encounter between Perry and Romney on who’s the biggest flip-flopper. I mean, this should be one you can just hit right out of the park for anyone running against Romney. And Perry was clearly prepped with a series of attack lines. But he stumbled over them like you’d woken him up in the middle of the night. Or maybe he was a punch drunk heavyweight at the end of the 14th round. Then Romney comes in — an amazing flip-flopper if there ever was one — and manages to just run circles around Perry. It was almost sad. Romney was on fire. And yet, Perry’s clearly this audience’s guy. He’s got the positions they like. Romney basically doesn’t. He says he does. But people don’t really buy that. So how far does the complete debate mastery go?

Audience members at Fox News/Google debate boo gay soldier. Watch.