Okay, okay, so maybe my diatribe from the other day had nothing to do with Newt's decision to not run for President, but you never know. We get traffic from all over, but on Friday we had a definite uptick in hits from Crazytown in Bizarro County.

I love comparative stories about candidates that aren't all about policy. Which is odd, I suppose, since I'm such a policy hound. But I love it when a magazine or newspaper sticks a reporter in a room with experts about something — vocabulary, music, culture — and has those experts analyze all of the candidates on a side in turn. It happens every cycle and I never get tired of it.

Newt Gingrich is taking an awfully cavalier attitude towards running for President, and he's being rewarded for it by the media. Rather than, say, campaigning for it and actually picking up the phone and asking for some money, Gingrich is just going to turn it over to an assistant and see what shakes. And I'm not kidding — this is what American politics has been reduced to.

You have probably heard that the Governor's mansion is undergoing some renovations and that Texas' first family will be elsewhere during the work. You may not have known that Perry's temporary housing will cost taxpayers some $10,000 a month. Small government, indeed!

Another MSNBC debate with the Democratic candidates, another win for the American People.

Scott Horton's treatment of Bush administration plans to make campaign finance life difficult for John Edwards and his supporters is a hefty indictment paired with a troubling revelation.

In an unusually public display, Tom Craddick has gone to the grassroots in an appeal for party unity.

I meant for today's last installment to be something other than more criticisms of the GOP. I mean, it's fun and all, but sometimes you want to do something a little different than what you've been doing all day. It is hard to break that habit when so many opportunities present themselves, though.

Last night, Jon Stewart referenced Rudy Giuliani's penchant for throwing 9/11 into every assertion or sentence as "9/11 Tourette's Syndrome." He's always doing that, right? We had no idea how serious the problem was.

John Boehner is flexing his muscle, only to be rebuked buy a guy from Oklahoma. The hilarity at the NRCC is non-stop these days.