This is really happening. Elizabeth Warren has a website up paid for by her exploratory committee for the US Senate in Massachusetts. The Harvard Law professor and former Administration official, who set up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, is taking emails from people to sign up for updates, soliciting donations and asking people to spread the word.

I don’t think Ellen Malcolm is one of those people. Despite mistakes Emily’s List has made in the past, I think she truly was committed to abortion rights. It’s sad to see her walking away from the rubble before the Democratic Party presses the detonator, but totally understandable.

Despite Bart Stupak’s July letter announcing his intent to submit an amendment to health care reform further restricting American women’s reproductive rights, Village insider Ellen Malcolm waited until TODAY to sound the alarm, while list-building and fundraising on a purported petition to Harry Reid to “Stop Stupak.”