–Democrats are still looking for GOP votes on the defense authorization (plus DADT repeal and DREAM Act). Olympia Snowe sounds like a no.
–Max Boot argues the military isn’t a bad place for motivated immigrants to end up.
–The major Democratic committees out-raised their Republican counterparts in August. But, as Crowley’s story illustrated last week, independent expenditure groups are steering plenty of conservative cash to key races.
–Bellwether corporate donations swing to the GOP.
–If you didn’t overdose on Tea last week, Nate Silver has a long and thorough piece about conservative insurgents’ real impact on races this fall.
–Haley Barbour tries to bridge the establishment-Tea Party gap.
–Republicans aspire to death-by-a-thousand-cuts for PPACA (also known as ObamaCare.)
–Obama asks liberal critics to stop being cerebral.
–Democrats don’t quite know what to think of “Restoring Sanity” and Colbert Nation. When it doubt, panic.
–A Chicago businessman alleges Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. colluded with Blagojevich. Conspiratorially minded Windy citizens might see a connection to the upcoming mayoral race.
–Vegetables: One more voice for inflation.
–Side dish: Ira Glass makes things fascinatinger.
–Dessert: This ESPN commerical, according to Bill Clinton, is an allegorical masterpiece about American public policy discourse:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TBusqMaCEM]
What did I miss?