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At the same time Tom Carper was the supposed Public Option champion in the Senate, he was telling hedge fund investors that, no worries, he would kill it, so invest in private companies.

I've never taken acid or tried to put on full-blown clown make-up using a fun house mirror. If I did, it would probably feel like reading the comments over at Red State.

The New York Post reports that former Vice President Dick Cheney was seen at a party recently using an oxygen mask to aid his breathing.

The Gingrich collapse is not the same as the Perry, Cain and Bachmann collapse. Indeed, it already looks like he is rebounding.

"They call themselves conservatives but that’s not it, either. They don’t want to conserve what we now have. They’d rather take the country backwards – before the 1960s and 1970s, and the Environmental Protection Act, Medicare, and Medicaid; before the New Deal, and its provision for Social Security, unemployment insurance, the forty-hour workweek, and official recognition of trade unions; even before the Progressive Era, and the first national income tax, antitrust laws, and Federal Reserve."

If you’re a gay American, don’t vote for Newt Gingrich. That’s not a Democratic talking point — that’s reportedly what Newt himself said to a gay man in Iowa Tuesday.

The New York Post reports that former Vice President Dick Cheney was seen at a party recently using an oxygen mask to aid his breathing. A Cheney spokesperson denied the claim. “He’s doing fine,” the rep said.

It is amazing that the GOP decided to assist President Obama in his campaign narrative that GOP is only interested in protecting the rich and obstructing the President, all the while the middle class needs help in a sluggish economy. He has doing good in that regard this fall, as recent polls released yesterday. But now he gets an amazing assist in having his opposition actually perform the role he would have them play, and to perfection.

A new poll! But this is one you take to see where you stand politically on a new political typology developed by (or maybe refined by) the people at the Pew Center for People and the Press. This is meant to get beyond the labels of red and Blue.