• Multimillionaire Mitt Romney has decided to bulldoze his 3,000-sq. ft. ocean front mansion in California and replace it with an 11,000 sq. ft. ocean front mansion.
• I agree completely with Michael Tomasky, in fact, I have been saying it for some time now, that the GOP will nominate the Tea Party candidate, whether it be Bachmann, Perry or Palin, just to get rid of the Tea Party:
“The Huntsman strategy here is obvious: position himself as the moderate and reasonable guy on the off chance Republicans decide to be moderate and reasonable. We must assume he is aware that his odds on this are rather long, so what he’s really hoping for is to be the consensus candidate of 2016. Maybe the party just has to go through this purge, this Reign of Terror; so just let it do that, and once it does and nominates an extremist who can’t beat a weak incumbent during a time of 9 percent unemployment rates, and the heads are piled high enough in the tumbrels and enough people finally have returned to their senses, he will ride the Thermidorian wave to victory after Obama leaves town.”
• The only plausible progressive candidate that could challenge President Obama in a primary, Russ Feingold, has announced he is not running for any office next year and has endorsed Obama for a second term.