Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI), and candidate for governor of Michigan: Ft. Hood shooting shows Obama is soft on terror.

It’s easy to mock the media for the excesses of Sarah Palin Week, but Andrew Sullivan correctly observes that our scorn is better directed at John McCain — who deserves the blame for foisting Palin on the country — and at the media for not holding him accountable for wanting to put her one 72-year-old’s heartbeat from the Presidency.

Why was the Stimulus Bill called the ‘stimulus bill’ and not a ‘jobs bill’?

Biden humiliates America with deep bow to Jon Stewart.

Fireworks expected as Attorney General Eric Holder testifies this morning before the Senate Judiciary Committee about trying Gitmo detainees in federal courts. That and the day’s other political news in the TPMDC Morning Roundup.

Biden heads to the Hill this morning to meet with Sen. Reid on health care.

Late Update: Majority Leader Harry Reid will unveil the draft of the Senate health care reform bill to his caucus today at 5 p.m. ET, and CBO numbers on the bill will likely arrive sometime before the unveiling.–dk

Logic, taste and political decency weren’t enough. Now it appears Michele Bachmann’s Capitol Hill Tea Party may have violated House Ethics rules too.

We’ve got more on the discrimination complaint filed against the Washington Times by its top opinion page editor, including a copy of the complaint he filed with the EEOC and a scan of yesterday’s Times masthead, which still lists him even though he claims he was fired last month.

Former Gov. Palin says she’s “all for” religious profiling of American Muslims.

Eric Holder: “I’m not scared of what Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has to say at trial. And no one else needs to be afraid either.”