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Because the news never stops:
* Poor Jeb Bradley has decided to follow in Sununu's footsteps in calling for a flat tax. I have to admit I'm mystified by this renewed interest in the most regressive form of taxation this side of the Pledge. But whatever's in the GOP water, I say: keep drinking it. The flat tax is a strategy destined to failure in a world where people who make under a million a year are also allowed to vote on election day.
* Listen here to the new radio ads being run for Carol Shea-Porter and Paul Hodes by Americans United for Change.
* AG Kelly Ayotte has issued a cease and desist order against the Republican Governor's Association and their illegal push polls.
* Judd Gregg: still a clown after all these years. Sorry, Judd. You can't have been the budget chairman for a Bush era that has given debt to our grandchildren and a 3 trillion dollar war and then have any credibility on Obama's fiscal discipline.
* Steiner v. Barker lives for another day: the FISA vote has been put off for a week.
* Michigan wants to set things straight with a caucus. Hoo-ray! But Clinton has already rejected it, preferring the earlier primary where she was the only name on the ballot. Fancy that.
* Stop John E. Sununu before he sends our crippled housing crisis over the cliff along with our standing in the world..
* A new CQ Today article (subscription required) on the NH-02 race rightly points out that Bob Clegg must be regarded as the frontrunner, despite the early cheerleading the NRCC did for Jennifer Horn. But CQ is no slouch - they know, with the blue lean of the district, and Hodes' formidable warchest, to rate Bass' old digs as Democrat Favored.
* Speaking of Bass: I always thought that his grandfather, Robert Perkins Bass, was the man behind the New Hampshire Primary. While that's certainly true to an extent, it was his successor in 1913, Democratic Governor Samuel D. Felker, along with that rarest or rarities, a Democratic state legislature, that made it law, and that ushered in the progressive spirit of presidential primaries that had caught fire in reformist Wisconsin and elsewhere. You learn something new every day, I guess.
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