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- It's a quiet day in campaigns, so why not wile it away reading a diverting discussion of the odd absence of the declining health of the economy in Democratic campaigns by Prospect founder Bob Kuttner.
- The other big news is that Saturday's Democratic caucus in Nevada will be held partially in casinos on the strip despite a lawsuit brought by a union supporting Clinton.
- TPM has some more thoughts on the debate over media coverage of John Edwards. Jason Zengerle throws in his two cents. I do think the media is somewhat hostile to Edwards, in part because they find his anti-corporate rhetoric distasteful, but it's also true that he never had as much support as Clinton or Obama. A little bit from column A, a little bit from column B.
- And as corn subsidies are to Iowa, the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste storage facility is to Nevada (I don't know enough to have an opinion on the merits, but Nevadans certainly seem to dislike the idea). Clinton and Obama are now sparing about who hates it more.
- Bob Johnson "apologizes" again. I'd explain why this is a bad apology, but you can just go read this piece by ... me on how politicians screw up apologies. This is a great example.
- One of my pet peeves about the liberal blog world is that while we criticize the media with justification often, we don't give enough positive reenforcement. Jonathan Stein sets a better example.
- On the Republican side, the media is still writing Mr. and Mrs. John McCain over and over in its op ed pages. Roger Cohen today pens a valentine to McCain that is ably shredded, burned, and scattered on a superfund site by Steve Benen. Think Progress has more.
- McCain meanwhile, keeps hinting he might want to marry (politically) Joe Lieberman.
- At least McCain has the right enemies, right? Well it turns out that the group that's been attacking him (which I mentioned in the last LR) is run on about an eighth of a shoestring. They're actually called the Swift Boot Veterans for Truth. Because they want to boot John McCain out of the primary swiftly you see. That didn't stop a flurry of stories in today's newspapers about McCain's evil tormentors though.
- Huckabee is dispensing with the warm and fuzzy stuff and going straight for the full Santorum (mildly NSFW, gross, and awesome) by comparing homosexuality to bestiality explicitly. I'm sure Dan Savage will have a good meaning for the word Huckabee in a week or two.
- That's it for today and may you dream sweet dreams of the Newt Gingrich campaign that might have been.
--Sam Boyd
