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hollybailey:

This week’s New Yorker cover is pretty great

producermatthew:

GOP presidential nominee Rick Santorum, apparently unaware of ironic acronyms, wants you to participate in the Conservatives Unite Moneybomb, or C.U.M.  This is real.

I know a lot about [Newt Gingrich]. I served on the investigative committee that investigated him, four of us locked in a room in an undisclosed location for a year. A thousand pages of his stuff.
Nancy Pelosi • Giddy at the prospect of Gingrich being the Republican nominee for president. She said she’ll give more details “when the time’s right” which, we can only assume, means “if Gingrich wins the nomination.” source (viafollow)

dcdecoder:

shortformblog:

Chris Christie: Not jumping in? Both the National Review and ABC News are reporting this (ABC News via a Breaking News banner), which should be reported as such: “Guy who said he wasn’t running for president dozens of times before says it for 76th time.”

Wanna see the other 75 times (well, it’s really more like 12)? See the POLITICO video Christie himself sent the public to here.

(via dcdecoder)

Rick Perry’s entire claim to fame is that he kicked our ass. You guys can laugh. You can let it out. But his entire claim to fame is all the jobs he created. He took almost all of them from us.

Rep. Darrell Issa is another skeptic of Gov. Rick Perry’s “Texas Miracle.” 

California has been losing jobs to states with more favorable tax policies and less regulation

Democratic Underground

producermatthew:

BREAKING: Texas Governor Rick Perry is running for president, a spokesperson has told the Associated Press. [AP]

@jmartpolitico

Romney Campaign manager on skipping polls: “we will focus our energies and resources on winning primaries and caucuses.” - @samsteinhp

I now think the odds are better than 50-50 that both Rick Perry and Paul Ryan run.

Obama Campaign Now Selling Birth Certificate Merchandise

The Weekly Standard