Mike Murphy is this Republican guy with crazy hair like Bozo the Clown would have, if Bozo the Clown had very fine straight hair and wasn’t dead. Whenever Mike Murphy shows up on Meet the Press he is wearing some ridiculous plaid jacket and talking actual sense about Republicans, which is unusual. Naturally, he will not be joining the McCain campaign. MORE »

After spending all primary season complaining about what a policy lightweight Barack Obama was, now a whole pack of bigwig Clinton advisors have joined the Obama team. The gal with the robot rash on her forehead will proffer advice on the Middle East, while Madeleine Albright will lurk angrily in the background when Obama gives speeches. This is all a perfectly normal part of the political process wherein the winner slowly metabolizes the loser, leaving only a dry loser-shaped husk behind for its grieving relatives to worship. [New York Observer]

In a controversial address at Columbia University School of Law on Tuesday, the controversial contrarian and former Obama advisor Samantha Power admitted she was sorry about calling Hillary Clinton a monster that one time. However, she did not request backsies on any of the other shocking garbage she uttered in her tenure as Barack Obama’s foreign policy wonk. MORE »

Phillip Martin, a top advisor to the Fred Thompson campaign whose guilty plea to cocaine trafficking charges in 1983 became a boring scandal yesterday, has resigned his position. Because “24 years ago” is the new yesterday. [CNN]