Wow. So McCain's campaign had already said they weren't going to return the money Clayton Williams had bundled for them even though they were canceling the event. However, the Politico is reporting that they haven't actually canceled the event, ha ha, just kidding:

The McCain campaign has refused to return the money Williams raised—and despite initially telling press they were cancelling the event, the campaign has rescheduled it for later this summer.

This is Campaign 101 type stuff. I'm amazed. Is the B Team running the boat over there?

I don't know why anyone would schedule a fundraiser with former Republican gubernatorial candidate and all around political kryptonite Clayton Williams, but McCain did. The campaign has since canceled it after finding out the defining thing about Clayton Williams.

Attention: Lou Dobbs is not running for Governor of New Jersey. I sort of thought he might, and while the race would have been entertaining it probably wouldn't have been any good for any body.

This little nugget in the Dallas Morning News' Trailblazers political blog made me so angry I had to immediately put the keys to my Volvo back in my pocket*, scoot my latte aside**, get on the coffee house's wireless*** and blog about it**** instead of ordering some sushi*****:

CNN's Political Ticker thinks Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill might either be courting the Obama VP slot or, perhaps, is being courted for it. I think everyone will be wrong about the VP projections and that it will be someone totally unexpected. Like, why not Bernie Sanders? Or, dare I say it, Teddy Roosevelt? That would be pretty unexpected, huh?

Ron Paul will formally terminate his presidential campaign tonight. I think the next step can only be a motivational speaking tour. Or maybe cutting an album. Either way, his supporters will have to do something else between now and November.

Apparently the producers at FOX News learned the lessons of Richard Nixon and Lee Atwater quite well. Via Sadly, No:

Wow. A Princeton Bachelor's, a Harvard J.D., employment at Sidley Austin, the City of Chicago and the University of Chicago only gets a woman a "Baby Mama"? I shudder to think what the producers at FOX News must think of Cindy McCain and Laura Bush.

Our president dismisses claims that the US is building permanent bases in Iraq; Iraqi leaders tell a different story.

The National Journal ponders: what if all of the major news outlets disagreed on something? Prepare yourself, because it is happening. Seems that not everyone can get on the same page about what states will be presidential election battlegrounds. After the accuracy ratings from the Democratic primary predictions, I don't know why these guys are still in the forecasting business.

I am fascinated at the technological disparity between the Republican Party and the Democratic Party, all the way down to how they manage their organizing tools at the grassroots level.