Steven Anderson, the Arizona pastor who says he’s praying for President Obama’s death has now thrown in some helpful specificity. He wants him to get brain cancer like Sen. Kennedy. Also of note, Chris Broughton, Anderson’s parishioner, who brought the assault rifle to the Obama event a few weeks ago now says he’s praying for Obama’s death too and is now hedging on whether he’s suggesting that someone take matters into their own hands and end the president’s life.

The Secret Service says they’re aware of the latest out of Arizona and “appropriate follow up will be conducted.”

Grover Norquist says the Holder probe into Bush-era torture practices is a good thing since future Republican administrations will now be able to open probes into the Stimulus Bill.

On Friday I noted the raft of recent (though all partisan) poll showing the Christie v. Corzine race drawing even. Quinnipiac just announced that they’re going to be releasing their latest poll of this race tomorrow morning at 9 AM.

With the summer winding down, it’s time to take stock of where the legislative track is likely to pick up in what is likely to be the breakneck pace of September.

First, with two of the three Republican members of the so-called Gang of Six openly embracing some version of the “death panel” canard, it’s probably worth writing off the Finance committee negotiations for a bipartisan bill. But that doesn’t mean it’s all down to pushing reform through budget reconciliation, which is to say using procedures which allows you to do it with 50 rather than 60 votes. Read More

VA Dems pounce on Republican candidate’s earlier endorsement on legislating from the bible.

More evidence the Gang of Six nonsense is drawing to a close.

You know Virginia governor candidate Bob McDonnell called for a “God-ordained Government” back in his 1989 graduate thesis at Regent University. We pick out some of the other choice morsels from McDonnell’s manifesto.

Joe Klein bids Sens. Grassley and Enzi adieu. Or adios, in his words.

This is a pretty big bummer.

I was getting excited to see retired Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré get into the Republican primary to challenge incumbent/disgraced Sen. David Vitter (R). But he now seems to have definitively shot down the idea.

Late Update: Sigh, it gets worse. Now Honoré’s saying he’s not even a Republican and never met the consultant he’d reportedly met with to discuss getting into the race. Really knows how to ruin a guy’s day.