MARK PENN BEATS RICHARDSON IN SUMO MATCH: And now the traditional Fun Part of the News Day: how did Clinton chief strategist Mark “Bowser” Penn manage to spin away Obama’s latest good news (the Richardson endorsement)? We predicted the standard “caucus states don’t matter” line, which was close enough to the truth: “The time that he could have been effective has long since passed… I don’t think it is a significant endorsement in this environment.” For real — what good is an endorsement when Hillary’s already won the presidency? [TPM Election Central]

Wisconsin has a bunch of old white ladies who care about health care, and Hillary still lost it. It was her ninth or tenth loss in a row, and now, as “powerful” AP writer Ron Fournier writes in today’s lede, “The Democratic nomination is now Barack Obama’s to lose.” How does failed Clinton strategist Mark “Microtrends and Waffles” Penn spin this one away? We asked our commenters last night to write their own Mark Penn spin on why Wisconsin doesn’t count, and some of the best are after the jump. MORE »

Roll Call reports today that Spin class instructor and Bush Twin Enrager Glenn Makl will keep his job (despite numerous calls from retired Spin instructors for his resignation). And a reader informs us that Glenn is but one in a long and distinguished line of people who’ve talked smack about the President while his daughters looked on, emotionless, drunk, and lip-locked with some Ivy Leaguer. MORE »