The 2012 Republican primary is increasingly looking like a two-man race between TPaw and Willard. And you can be sure that — since neither of them in their previous political lives were known as Teabaggers — they’ll be extremely eager to out-crazy each other.

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Democrats who save the Republicans’ bacon by approving a budget deal that includes anything that can be credibly described as Medicare cuts will be tarred by the electorate.

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There is still bipartisanship in Washington when something like depriving civil liberties in the name of Terror has to get done. We may have killed Osama bin Laden, but we have yet to slay the Boogeyman.

As much as the Ryan budget was a catastrophic political mistake for House Republicans, these talks – particularly today’s focus – offers an opportunity for Ryan and the GOP to save face. If they get a budget deal, especially one with cuts to Medicare or Medicaid, they can credibly say that their boldness to talk frankly about entitlements ended up succeeding in chipping away at the problem. And Democrats could hardly position themselves as the defenders of Medicare if they enact a grand bargain that shifts cost-sharing onto seniors.

• No end in sight in Libya.
• Sign of the times.
• The headline says it all.
• Conservatives: still not at all racists!
• Idiots.

Republicans taking the food out of the mouths of the poor…how totally unexpected.

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Here’s Ross spinning fantasies about how attempted rape is such great dramatic fodder.