• RNC WANTS TO END ALL MAVERICK REFORMS NOW: Nine days have passed since the defeat of John McCain — whose name your editor has just typed for the first time all week, huzzah — and the RNC already is suing to overturn the ban on soft money donations to political parties, a.k.a. “John McCain’s thing.” It really must have been torture for these guys, having to pretend for many months that they didn’t hate WALNUTS! (Oh gosh, that felt so good to type.) [Marc Ambinder]

ONCE AGAIN: We need to get us a PAC. MORE »

Could someone help us out here? Someone gave Rick Santorum a mortgage. We got that far. And Rick Santorum is poor, right? That’s the deal? So he wasn’t supposed to get the mortgage? Is this one of those things you have to be rich to understand? It’s like letting Lieberman into your country club, right? Like, in exchange for pro-golfing legislation or tax breaks for polo shirt-manufacturers or something. What we can understand is this: we’ve got to get ourselves a PAC. MORE »