We had some technical difficulties today, and it is also extremely possible that we spent all day goofing off and having fun out of the office. Back with you tomorrow.

There was an audible groan throughout Texas on the news that Governor Rick Perry had appointed a toll road pro and former staffers to the Texas transportation Commission, but friend of the show State Senator Kirk Watson is feeling philosophical about the whole thing. His comments on the matter are here at the Austin Chronicle.

From our pals at TPM Election Central comes a potentially useful new website: McCain Source, with an eye turned toward media coverage of John McCain and an effort towards keeping it honest.

From McClatchy:

MEXICO CITY — A U.S. crackdown on domestic methamphetamine labs has created opportunities for Mexican drug cartels and their "superlabs" to fill the void.

Law enforcement agencies now consider "meth" produced in Mexico to be the greatest drug menace in the Western United States and a growing concern across the southeast and mid-Atlantic states, according to a Department of Justice report released this year.

I'm just totally speechless. If it isn't Dana Perino refitting history for better PR, it's Bill O'Reilly denying a basic concept like 'just a little while ago.' Both via ThinkProgress.

The never-ending parade of the comically weak Republican presidential candidate field ('08!) continues. Really, if one of them hadn't been so quick to give up we could have a four-way race going on.

...Another One Resigns from an Appointed Position in the Bush Administration Amid Scandal.

Via Digby from the Fayetteville (NC) Observer:

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said in an interview Tuesday that she will call for a congressional hearing in response to an online video that shows poor living conditions at barracks on Fort Bragg.

John McCain wants to get some free marker into your health care, and he hasn't even bothered to come up with his own plan - he's just going to recycle President Bush's. This is truly an example of maximizing efficiency.

P.S. What did I just say?

So General Motors lost $3.3 billion in the the first three months of 2008. Chrysler lost something like $6.5 billion.