Tea partiers, Republicans, and Republicans masquerading as tea partiers are rallying against health care reform this morning on Capitol Hill at an event they’re billing as “Code Red.”

This rally is being organized by the more establishment side of the tea party movement — or co-opted side, depending on your point of view. The sponsors include the Tea Party Express, founded by Republican operatives in California, and FreedomWorks, the corporate-funded outfit run by former House Majority Leader Dick Armey. Accordingly, the list of speakers is dominated by elected Republicans, albeit some of the more whacked members of the GOP caucus: Reps. Michele Bachmann, Marsha Blackburn, Joe Wilson, and Phil Gingrey.

We’ll have a reporter and photographer there and will bring you more on the event later.

White House Middle East Envoy George Mitchell delays his planned trip to Israel indefinitely. That and the day’s other political news in the TPMDC Morning Roundup.

We’ve posted the talking points that the White House is circulating to House Democrats on how to sell health care reform as a campaign issue in 2010.

With “Beware the Ides of March” now the new GOP talking point, we are all clear that that was a warning that a bunch of knife-wielding senators would slaughter Caesar while visiting the Senate, right? Is this a reference to GOP reconciliation dead-enders? What are we talking about here?

A fascinating quick read from Ha’aretz’s Akiva Eldar. The first part gives some of the background on just what happened with that announcement of new building in East Jerusalem that has rocked US-Israeli relations. And then after that, a brief discussion of a conversation Eldar had a few years ago with David Kimche, the legendary Israeli spy and diplomat who died last week at 82. They discussed a proposal Kimche and a colleague submitted to the Israeli cabinet in June 1967, outlining a two-state solution quite similar to the various proposed 1967 border-based agreements that are the only real solution to the conflict. Of course, the idea was rejected.

Latest ad against Harry Reid: Reid’s backed by Arab slave-drivers.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC): Nancy Pelosi has Democrats “all liquored up on sake” on a “suicide run.”

Japanese imperialism imagery? Check. Roman imperialism imagery? Check.

If the increasingly over-the-top rhetoric coming from the GOP is any indication, health care reform may be in better shape than even many Democrats think.

Early signs that at least some of pro-life Dems considered crucial to passing health care reform are breaking in favor of the bill.

Always the joiner, Trent Lott invokes Ides of March in opposition to health care reform, too.

Shagmaster Gov. Sanford steps off the Appalachian trail to quote Shakespeare against Obama and Health Care Reform.

Actually, since he notes that today is the “Ides of March” isn’t that kind of an assassination thing?

Isn’t time for this dude to just be quiet?