From the Pork Barrel: Santorum Wants In So Bad

* Rick Santorum set to push aside political waste, officially thrust self into tight GOP race.

* Charles Krauthammer urges Rep. Paul Ryan to jump into 2012 presidential race while country still loves his anti-Medicare budget plan.

* Former congressperson and Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney turns up on pro-Qaddafi Libyan television station in effort to make people "understand what is happening here," see her on television.

* Texas governor not particularly popular among Texans.

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