Howard Dean: I’d get congressional authorization for the Libya War.

TPM’s Evan McMorris-Santoro will be filing reports live from Netroots Nation 2011 through the weekend.

Feingold tells Netroots Nation crowd: Democratic Super PACs are “dancing with the devil.” “We’ll gut our message!” he exclaimed. “I don’t just think it’s wrong, I think it’s a dumb strategy.”

If I’m understanding their plan, the House Dems felt they needed to get rid of Anthony Weiner because he was getting in their way of telling the public about the House Republicans’ plan to phase out Medicare and replace it with vouchers. Well, he’s gone. So I guess it’s back to making that case 24/7? Right?

There’s a lot of chatter this morning about whether AARP, the big retirement organization, has changed its position on cuts to Social Security. That’s based on an article in this morning’s Wall Street Journal. We’ve got a reporter looking into what more we can find out. And we’ll be reporting back to you on that when we learn more. But my initial take is that the piece itself proceeds from an inaccurate premise — one that longtime watchers of the social insurance policy wars will be able to readily identify.

The premise of the article is that AARP has always been a stalwart opponent of any cuts to Social Security or any efforts to transform it into a 401k style individual accounts system. And now they’ve changed that position. But that’s simply not true. As a general matter, yes, AARP has been a significant obstacle to efforts to gut these programs. But AARP has long been a headache for liberal political groups who do want to defend these programs’ basic structure and integrity. Even in 2005, AARP wasn’t the first on board in the efforts to derail President Bush’s plan to partially phase out Social Security.

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Republican astroturf seniors group 60 Plus Association rolls out new ad supporting Ryan Medicare Phase Out plan.

Howard Dean says creative pronunciation of the “Koch” brothers name was a “freudian slip.”

Fmr. Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R-MN) is showing he can be just as tough as Mitt Romney on health care as long as Romney isn’t in the room with him. Last night Pawlenty went on Hannity saying he should have been tougher on the GOP frontrunner in the recent New Hampshire debate and upping the ante by calling Romney Obama’s “co-conspirator” in creating ‘Obamacare.”

Lawmaker wearing a wire in federal gambling probe gets recorded calling black bingo players “aborigenes.”