Y'know...

There really isn't a dime's worth of difference between Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney.
They both want small gummint, low taxes for the wealthiest, a disenfranchised working class, they are both creative fantasists where Barack Obama is concerned and all committed Praetorians they want to deficit spend in order to keep our military the most bloated in the universe.
They both wanna privatize social security and put the insurance companies back on top when it comes to health care decisions.
What exactly they are arguing about down there in Florida is over who gets to throw grandma out into the street, Gingrich would do it with a maniacal laugh, while Romney would probably have one of his lackeys do it for him.
Other than that this is a death struggle between Tweedledee and Tweedledee....

I care little for the details of Scott Brown's

National Guard service, I am sure the whole thing is on the up and up.

I think it somewhat odd, though, that the nation has been at war for twelve years now and never once has this commissioned officer of the Massachusetts Guard been called up for active duty in a war zone.

Yes I know, he is an attorney attached to the Judge Advocate's Office. Seems ironic though, in twelve years of fighting, that Brown only saw the front lines as a visiting Junior Senator on a fact finding tour.

Then again according to my mother, in the Battle of the Bulge, Eisenhower stripped the rear echelons bare in an effort to stem the German Offensive, all save the lawyers in the Judge Advocate's Office.
My old man confirmed this obliquely when he famously observed that at St. Vith they sent mess attendants, cooks and quartermaster's assistants into the fight..."no lawyers there" he concluded.

No lawyers indeed.
Like I said, I'm sure that Scott Brown's National Guard record is entirely free of any hint of malfeasance or wrongdoing...or heroism for that fact.

Congressional Quarterly Sez...

That Scott Brown is the second mostest "Bipartisan Senator", running behind Olympia Snowe of Maine.
Good Lord this'll have certain columnists at the Boston Globe in paroxym's of joy I can assure you.
Of course what does "bipartisanship" mean these days? Damn near nothing I'm afraid.
Mostly its a negotiation between persons routed in reality and those who wanna end all this "two party system" rubbish.
Look at Newt Gingrich, all through out New Hampshire he tried to sell himself as a bipartisan figure, but it is clear from his rhetoric that he thinks "bipartisanship" is merely the polite manners the GOP will assume once liberalism is destroyed utterly and completely.
What good can come of those negotiations?

No much.
Anyway, its ironic to note that the lack of bipartisanship in DC directly altered the Senate Race in Massachusetts to Brown's disadvantage, the Senate GOP filibustered Citizen Warren's nomination to the Consumer Investment sinecure...Did Scott speak up then?
Oh no.
Couldn't be bothered, book tour doncha know.
As long as the bipartisanship swims in a sea of bad ideas and or impotent notions, it will no one the slightest bid of good.
In that context, Scott being the "second most bipartisan Senator" is akin to being named "The second least Profane"...

I wonder if Jan Brewer's dust up with the President isn't

the first shot in a "Jan Brewer for Vice President" boomlet?

I mean, Romney has a pronounced taste for female toadies, and Nikki Haley blew herself out of contention when she could not deliver South Carolina.
So why not Jan?
Arizona is a swing state, the Democrats have been trending well in that part of the country.
Of course, likely given the flame out that was Sarah Palin in 2008, another female vice presidential nominee isn't in the GOP cards...but yuh never know.
They say Florida Senator Marc Rubio is everyone's VP dream boat....who is a sort of Gulf Coast Scott Brown from what I'm told.

Newt Gingrich wants to build a moonbase by 2020...

In the absence of "man-rated" launch vehicles, how are we to get the crew there?
A nice long rope ladder?
Mind you, I'm all for a lavishly funded manned space program, the world seems full of scientists easily diverted into unpleasant "doomsday machine" projects, space exploration tends toward peaceful applications and all like that.
But as usual, Newt's Lavish Promise comes with no revenue plan to back it up, so likely this notion will whither in due course, assuming it is ever honestly debated in congress.
Being a former congressman and unusually attuned to the political power of earmarks, Gingrich normally has a good ear for potentiallocal Federal projects that can attract voters on primary day. In New Hampshire he talked about reopening the Veteran's Hospital in Manchester, an entirely sensible idea.
But when he got to Cape Canaveral, his already discussed tendency towards "magical thinking" got the better of him, promising a moonbase that neither NASA nor the private sector can deliver on as currently configured and funded.
He may as well have promised to make Pellucidar the 51st State.
The best Gingrich had to offer by way of funding was to solicit the private sector for ideas has to how to pay for it all.
Well, I'd start with Mortgage Backed Securities and maybe a sweetheart book deal or two, that'll get things started.

House Speaker John Boehner derided

the President's SOTU speech yesterday as "The Politics of Envy".

My question is, who the hell would ever envy a miserable impotent lackwit like John Boehner...a character held in Alex Throttlebottom-esque contempt by his own caucus?

For that fact who would ever envy a corrupt Jobber like Newt Gingrich?

And Mitt Romney? That cold unfeeling utterly phony man?

Even with all his money, Mitt Romney is a poor target for envy, sure he can live lavishly off his investments, but how many lathes does his fortune turn?
Damn few I'd say.

No...I give the President props for speaking plainly and putting tax inequality at the center of his re-election campaign, I hope he sticks to the theme, if Romney is the eventual GOP nominee Obama will reap  the benefit of it.

This is my Senior Senator...

He apparently loves pick up games of ice hockey...a lot.

Based on that battered & bruised mug of his, you'd never know John Kerry has had hip replacement surgery.

Jesus John...you can lay off goin' fer the hat trick, I mean age has some privileges!