What do John Boehner and Cheetos dust have in common? Jon Stewart explains.

Someone finally asks John Boehner a direct, focused follow up question on whether he still stands by what he said about Obama tax cuts on Face the Nation.

Seeing his chance to identify with the marauding hordes of tea partiers, Mitt Romney clambers aboard the Christine O’Donnell (anti-masturbation) bandwagon.

After shattering Sean Hannity’s world last night by saying that Christine O’Donnell is nuts, Karl Rove is now being treated to a web-wide rightwing smackdown for talking smack about O’Donnell.

In closed door meeting, Pelosi implores House Dems to take the plunge on tax cut vote before election.

I know the Christine O’Donnell victory stole the show last night, but let’s not overlook Rick Lazio’s crushing defeat in the GOP primary for governor of New York. The winner there, Carl Paladino, makes O’Donnell look like Daniel Webster. Here’s Paladino’s victory speech from last night.

This list of Christine O’Donnell’s die-hard wingnut-isms continues to grow. Next up in the O’Donnell hit parade: There’s as much — if not more! — evidence for creationism as there is for evolution.

Christine O’Donnell goes on morning TV, compares herself to Reagan, says it’s time for Karl Rove to eat “some humble pie” and says she doesn’t need Mike Castle’s endorsement because she’s got Sarah Palin. Watch it.

As you can see there was a lot of eye-popping election news last night. But there were also key developments on the Obama Plan tax cut front and whether the Dems are going to force a vote on the Republicans before the November election.

Two key pieces to read. 1) Pelosi implores Dems to go for a pre-election vote on the middle class tax cuts before the November election in an all-caucus meeting last night with her Democratic members. 2) Dems start bickering amongst themselves over whether House or Senate should have to go first. Both key reads if you’re following this story.

Our Evan McMorris-Santoro makes a good point this morning. Christine O’Donnell, albeit only 41, has been in the Crazy ™ business for a long time. And that’s left a paper and a digital trail. So you’ve got classics like this from the 90s where she tells MTV about the group she’s founded to combat the scourge of masturbation (see the video). And she was a frequent guest on Bill Maher’s old ‘Politically Incorrect’ as well as C-Span. But that also means she’s got a lot of experience on TV. As Evan notes, it’s a very different trajectory from your Sharron Angle type candidate. The first part of the equation is that the national party appears to have completely abandoned her. So there’s no one there — a la Angle — to keep her away from interviews. But it’s not just that. She may be nuts. But she’s no stranger to going on national TV. So she’s going to deliver the Crazy ™ in a much more polished, coherent way.