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Not as good as 2 Girls 1 Cup “reactions” but close. Darn close.

Well, if you can’t raise enough money, you might as well recruit wealthy candidates who can self-finance:
“National Republicans are in disarray, forcing them to recruit inexperienced and unprepared self-funders,” said Doug Thornell, a spokesman for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
Self-financed, deep-pocketed Congressional candidates are nothing new for either party, and the Democrats have their own [...]

An op-ed: in today’s Times does a reasonably good job of summing up the state of American health care, but concludes with this somewhat unsubstantiated swipe at single-payer insurance:
Deep in their hearts, many liberals yearn for a single-payer system, sometimes called Medicare-for-all, that would have the federal government pay for all care and dictate prices. [...]

Read Matt Yglesias on the ridiculously shallow coverage of the “surge” in the media, and how “military success” without “political success” is not really success at all. It’s also worth noting that the “success” we’ve had in Iraq over the past year, in Anbar especially, has been about propping up the Sunnis in a [...]

There’s a good piece in the WaPo on corn, energy, politics, and Iowa:
“The president’s goal is to have 35 billion gallons of biofuels by 2017, and we’re currently at 6 billion gallons. That would mean a huge increase in land for corn,” says Jerry Schnoor, a University of Iowa professor of civil and environmental [...]

From a Yahoo!-AP survey of 2,000 voters:
Take self-described die-hard Republican Donald Stokes. The 48-year-old steelworker from Waterbury, Conn., would pick Democrat John Edwards if he could take a candidate along on his family vacation. He likes Edwards’ personality and his family values. But he supports Giuliani for president, largely because of the former New [...]

New Orleans developers are building more mixed-income, multifamily units:
Real estate specialists predict that these projects will serve as catalysts for the neighborhood’s revival. “The Tulane corridor will transform into something it hasn’t been for 50 or 60 years,” said J. Mark Madderra, a principal in Madderra & Cazalot, a mortgage banking firm, who is a [...]

Michelle Obama will not cross a picket line to appear on ABC’s The View. (I know what you’re thinking — they have writers on The View?)
Meanwhile Hillary Clinton, in the process of running the best Presidential campaign ever, deftly avoided the picket line altogether and sent a note to she show’s token Republican, Elizabeth [...]

It’s really hard to get good video of life on the streets of Baghdad. The major news networks have all but given up. This interactive feature over at the NYT web site is a real treat in that regard.
(via Danger Room )