Huckles is just a teeny bit excited about winning in Iowa! He hasn’t stopped grinning or giving interviews or being all Southern-politician charming for days. After the jump , he talks about how he feels like the political Seabiscuit, and we try a little too hard to picture what that might look like. MORE »

The New York Times’ stunning expose on how candidates don’t like to talk about things that might hurt their campaigns starts pretty strong: Mark Leibovich calls the practice “Stalinist” and then segues directly into Hillary Clinton (well played — we think Rudy Giuliani made the same comparison the other night). Then it starts going on about things everyone knows: Bill Clinton fucks around, John Edwards is secretly rich, Rudy performs a hundred abortions/day, and, uh, Mitt Romney is from Sodom. MORE »

Alberto Gonzales went before congress again today to say pretty much the exact same things he said before, but this time about the ninth/first fired attorney general. Gonzales continues to do a bang-up job of demonstrating the administration’s contempt for congress in general, so expect him to hang on to his job for another year. MORE »

The wit and wisdom of Senator Tom Coburn, courtesy GQ. MORE »

Representative Steve King (R-Iowa), ladies and gentlemen, with our bad metaphor of the day: MORE »

It comes to us courtesy of NBC4. In a routine story about that evergreen local news topic, fires during weddings, reporter Michael Flynn gets a little poetic: MORE »

* John Cornyn has the administration talking points down cold, but as for the writing — brother needs a grammar class. [The Hill Blog] MORE »

The minute we saw the words “Richard Cohen: ‘Digital Lynch Mob’” on Post site, we knew we were in for a real treat. We felt, even before we saw that column, that we’d perhaps known it all our lives, that we’d spent years getting to know it, rolling its deluded self-righteous points around in our heads, learning to love its non-sequiturs and celebrate its failures at even imitating anything resembling effective methods of persuasion. Yes, we present to you, “Digital Lynch Mob,” by Richard Cohen. Mr. Cohen, will you read it before the class, please? MORE »