Some more good articles — Brian Beutler, “The GOP’s Year Of Living Dangerously: What Did Its Hardline Strategy Produce?” and Ezra Klein, “Newt Gingrich’s health-care problem — and the Republican Party’s.”

You probably heard that Newt missed getting on the Virginia primary ballot. Turns out one of his campaign workers turned in too many phony signatures.

Charles Pierce dissects Mittens

Oh noes! Another debt ceiling hike!

“They might as well rename the ‘Iowa Republican Caucus’ to the ‘Abortion and Gay-Hating Referendum‘”