I hear Steele’s latest goof has at least one Republican senator seriously considering calling on him to resign.

Bill Kristol calls for Steele to resign over Afghanistan comments.

I’m not sure which is better: that our reporter just got sent this Michael Steele statement from six months ago saying that Afghanistan is the must-win war for freedom or that our reporter got the tip from a Republican source.

From Justin Elliott’s interview this morning with embattled pollster Del Ali: “I consider myself a political scientist. If you want to call me a statistical wiz, I am not.”

Jon Stewart cuts to the chase about Sen. Sessions questioning of Elena Kagan. Watch it.

Fix America? No, fix the politicians. (Maybe literally)

Scary Job Chart ™ gets even scarier.

TPM Reader AH asks why Democrats aren’t calling Republicans out for trying to stall the recovery to leverage the November election … Read More

Things are getting nasty in the Republican Florida governor’s primary, which wasn’t even supposed to be a race because Bill McCollum had it in the bag until disgraced health care CEO Rick Scott got into the race and started burying McCollum under an avalanche of money. You’d think McCollum would have a good enough record hating on gays since he personally hired the male-escort loving non-gay homosexuality expert George Rekers as a Florida government expert on the evils of homosexuality. But apparently not. Scott now says McCollum doesn’t meet muster on gay hating since he “endorsed pro-abortion and pro-homosexual rights candidate” Giuliani. Find out about all the fun down in the Sunshine State.

Michael Steele tells crowd at a fundraiser that we shouldn’t be in Afghanistan at all, that it’s Obama ‘war of choice’ and unwinnable.

The funny thing about this is that what Steele says isn’t that controversial … if, that is, you’re on the left of the Democratic party, or among the relatively few Republicans Realists left out there. (Here’s Steele’s spokesman trying to make sense of the comment.) Read More

Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA) tonight announced she’s coming out in favor of the financial reform bill. She had been one of the two Democratic holdouts; Russ Feingold being the other.

Cantwell’s statement after the jump … Read More