Scott Brown to write his memoirs.
BREAKING: Marco Rubio did not get a back wax. Whew!
Obama’s new poverty scale: “Another paradox of the new poverty measure is that countries such as Bangladesh and Albania will have lower poverty rates than the United States, even though the actual living conditions in those countries are extremely bad. Haiti would probably have a very low poverty rate when measured by the Obama system because the earthquake reduced much of the population to a uniform penniless squalor.”
The White House not exactly fired up about Alexi Giannoulias’ chances: “We’ve got at least one potential member of Congress — Alexi, stand up — from the state of Illinois.”
Oh, snap! Democratic infighting gets good: Markos warns Kucinich to vote for health care or the netroots will primary him.
What Obama hath wrought: “Their proposal has divided Democrats while uniting Republicans, returned American politics to well-worn ideological ruts, employed legislative tactics that smack of corruption, squandered the president’s public standing, lowered public regard for Congress to French revolutionary levels, sucked the oxygen from other agenda items, re-engaged the abortion battle, produced freaks and prodigies of nature such as a Republican senator from Massachusetts, raised questions about the continued governability of America and caused the White House chief of staff to distance himself from the president’s ambitions.”
Uh oh: “A plurality of Democrats believe the health-care plan will increase the deficit and a majority say it will likely mean higher middle-class taxes.”
The Hill‘s latest whip count.
