Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) and former New York Lt. Gov. Betsy McCaughey, a professional anti-reformer and fomenter of all sorts of reform myths, went head to head last night over health care reform in a debate in New York City. TPM and its camera were there.

As the American Police Force private jail deal swirls down the drain of public-private partnership ignominy, now the question gets asked, who’s got the keys? The town originally told us they gave them to the APF. But APF says they gave them back to the town. And as long as we’re on the subject, a hypothetical: if APF is still in the prison and won’t leave, would Hardin MT need to hire another private army to roust them out?

First Congress, now Dancing with the Stars: DeLay quits resigns from Dancing with the Stars.

If you were watching last night as he turned back the clock, showing a nimbleness of feet and rhythm you’d expect in a much younger man, playing through injury and the pain of a deteriorating physique, then you know what a special performance it was. And sadly we learned this afternoon that his career may be coming to a permanent end due to stress fractures in his feet. So we take one more look back on what may have been Brett Favre’s Tom Delay’s last dance.

Since they did a surge in Iraq, shouldn’t they get to do one in Afghanistan too?

Even shorter McCain: Isn’t it about time for me to start making the decisions about what happens in Afghanistan?

The Fox News anchor goes all pro-public option in a live interview with Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY).

Interested in talking to a NY-based graphic artist who has experience doing t-shirt design. Is that you?

McDonnell on his Christian right thesis: Don’t worry. Obama and I believe pretty much the same thing.

And Deeds gets pressed on his chances of winning and pushes his support for Obama. “I’m proud of the President, I worked very hard for his election last year. I want him to be successful and quite frankly I don’t think he’s getting enough credit for a lot of good things that are going on in the economy. I just think it’s unreasonable for two people to agree 100 percent of the time.”

Details emerge from Obama’s meeting with congressional leaders about Afghanistan.

The key seems to turn on an exchange between President Obama and Sen. McCain.

I mentioned this morning that a new FDU poll showed Jon Corzine for the first time in like forever ahead of Chris Christie.

True, it was by a statistically insignificant one point margin. But that’s in the context of a steady stream of polls showing the race closing to the low single digits.

Now this evening Rasmussen released a new poll with Christie up by only 3 points — down from 7 and 8 points in early and mid-September and 11 points in late August.

All but one poll shows Christie with some lead, even if only two or three points. But the trend is pretty clear. And it’s a perilous place for a New Jersey Republican to be. Because the state has a long history of Republicans candidates who held comfortable leads and then watched them melt away in October and see the Democrat take it in November.