In which next week’s testimony is discussed.

The Arlington Group, a right-wing conservative Christian supergroup (think Queens of the Stone Age, but anti-queen), is conducting some kind of America’s Next Top Model contest with the GOP candidates. The National Review’s Campaign Spot reports that Thompson is not so much the Caridee of the contest (goofy but likeable) as the Jade (confusing)*: “There [...]

There was one piece of news last week that hit Republicans even harder than Larry Craig’s wide stance in the Minneapolis airport men’s room, and that was the announcement by Virginia Senator John Warner that he will not run for re-election next year. Virginia has been trending purple in the last few cycles, and the [...]

None of these quite hit the sweet spot, as it were, but I’ve been forwarded enough of them I can’t NOT share. And, hey, HE MIGHT ACTUALLY RESIGN, thus ending your interest. And my favorite: I think a photoshopped LOLMitt saying “DO NOT WANT” should be on someone’s agenda.

• Now that Fred’s announced, does it matter that his “testing the waters” phase skirted FEC campaign rules? “Thompson accomplished his voter involvement activities online without ever explicitly stating that he is running for president or asking for votes. He didn’t have to. Instead, the site lets his online supporters do the campaigning for him [...]

McCain had the best line about Fred Thompson’s absence from the GOP debate on Fox last night — “maybe it’s past his bedtime.” McCain also happened to have the best debate. But how did Fred do? His Leno appearance went well enough, with Leno getting in a joke about Thompson’s manliness at Larry Craig’s expense [...]

Watching the Republicans talk about Iraq makes me want to scream. There is absolutely no recognition of the complexities, the difficult choices, the reality there. The most upsetting performance was by McCain, who knows the military and should know better. His granite-skulled insistence that the surge is working, “absolutely” working–and his attempt to browbeat Romney [...]