Fighting Fire With, Well, You Know

* What crazy alternate universe is this when you wake up, look at the news and think, “Thank God Arnold is running that state.” [NYT]
* Rudy is amassing a team of Republicans who have run for lots of different offices without winning any elections. [WP]
* It’s a good thing Romney’s really rich, otherwise he’d be polling along side Tancredo. [Politico]
* Public feels the GOP will let them die of an untold number of diseases. [LAT]
* Charlie Rangel’s tax “relief” will “relieve” the tax burden on 90 million working “families.” [WT]
* A Democratic memo says the party’s message lacks emotional appeal, and how these people ever won anything is now a total mystery to us. [The Hill]