Like all websites we follow our site’s traffic statistics very closely. And one subsection of those ‘analytics’ that are interesting beyond just TPMers are the trends in browser usage. So I thought I’d share the numbers from January, which show how fluid the trends in browser usage continue to be. Read More

White House officials hadn’t planned for President Obama’s Friday Q&A with congressional Republicans to be a huge political hit, but for the first time in weeks, they got a pleasant surprise.

SNL does Scott Brown: “I’m about to fili-bust out of these jean shorts.” Watch.

A new Rasmussen poll gives insurgent GOPer Marco Rubio a 12-point lead over Florida Gov. Charlie Crist in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate.

A strange moment Saturday at a forum for the Democratic Senate candidates in Pennsylvania. It was one of those (lame) forums where the candidates aren’t on stage simultaneously, but appear consecutively. Or at least that’s how it was supposed to work — except Sen. Arlen Specter bumbled out during the end of Rep. Joe Sestak’s remarks and had to be asked to leave the stage by the moderator. Watch.

Robert Gates fires the head of the beleaguered F-35 joint strike fighter program.

Noah Shachtman has more of the details.

The U.S. Attorney’s office in New Orleans dismisses Andrew Breitbart’s unsubstantiated allegations (made this afternoon on Fox News) that some big Justice Department-ACORN conspiracy is out to get the bozos who were arrested for trying to tamper with Sen. Landrieu’s phones.

Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) was on Chris Matthews show a few moments ago and rolled out his idea for the Republican platform to get the federal budget into line: cut benefits and for everybody now under 55 and privatize the program like President Bush tried to do in 2005.

Here’s the full video.

Today is election day in Illinois, where centrist Rep. Mark Kirk (R-IL) is writing a counter-narrative in what is supposed to be a “tea party” election cycle. Kirk is widely expected to win his party’s nomination for the U.S. Senate against two tea party opponents. What does that mean for other GOP moderates?

The alleged mastermind of the Mary Landrieu phone-tampering caper went on Hannity’s Fox Show last night. At what point do this guy’s lawyers tie him to a chair and lock him in their conference room until the criminal case is resolved? For his own sake. Watch.