So, the big story out of Iowa today: Newt Cries! Reminiscent of the moment Hillary Clinton snatch victory from surging Barack Obama in 2008, when she [didn't actually] cry when speaking about the effort to run a presidential campaign, Newt cried. About his dead mom.

In response to a question no voter would ask in a roomful of Iowa moms.

So Frank Luntz, message man to the GOP stars, had to ask it.

Republicans know that the best way to kill or discredit Democratic financial reform bills is to falsely equate efforts to limit and regulate too-big-to-fail(TBTF) banks with the unpopular financial bailouts that occurred entirely under President Bush. How will US media report this dishonest misdirection?

According to a recent Rasmussen poll, people trust Republicans more than they trust Democrats on the health care issue. I think that means Fox news won, and the Texas School Board will write the history.

In the wake of some criminal or just morally reprehensible behavior by a brown person non-conservative, wingnuts absolutely hate any attempt to examine the psychological state of the culprit.

As Joe Lieberman, Evan Bayh, Blanche Lincoln, and Ben Nelson have demonstrated over the past few days, the Senate health care reform debate is deep into the preening-and-posturing stage I wrote about here two weeks ago.  All of the faux-centrists are chasing the nearest microphone or camera in hopes of occupying the attention-getting “swing vote” [...]