They like us! They really like us! (Or at least our smart growth.) 

“. . . being the president’s spouse has to be very helpful for a future president. It’s like an eight-year ‘Take Your Daughter to Work Day.'”

Michael Kinsley, nevertheless proceeding to decide, “My candidate, at least at the moment, is Obama.”

A reminder of why we liked West Wing so much:

(ht: Talking Points Memo)

 . . . This year we’re working through 7 PM November 6 to rid the House of malign spirits.

From this morning’s Washington Post:

“Incumbents who lose narrowly might be more bipartisan when they come back to Richmond, said Warner, a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate.”

I think the way it works is that if incumbents lose, they’re not going to be coming back to Richmond.

From this week’s   New Yorker:

“In late September, Mitt Romney spoke before an audience in a banquet room in Santa Clara, California, within walking distance of high-tech firms like Yahoo, Nortel, and A.M.D. Wearing a blue suit and tie, a gold watch on his wrist, and product in his hair, he never moved from center stage, where an American flag helped frame him for his camera shots. He held a microphone with four fingertips and a thumb and rotated his torso a hundred and eighty degrees every five seconds or so, like a human garden sprinkler.”

. . . I think the Republicans just jumped the shark.

Gail Collins in this morning’s New York Times: “If the Republican presidential candidates go any farther right, they’ll be opening their town meetings by biting the heads off squirrels.”

. . .some Republicans, like Representative Thomas M. Davis III of Virginia, who was chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee when Mr. Bush ran for election in 2000, were furious with Mr. Bush for putting them in such a difficult spot on children’s health. “He’s not going to get his way on this,” said Mr. Davis, who voted to override the veto and predicted that Mr. Bush would ultimately be forced to sign a measure similar to the one he rejected.